Once a Category 5 hurricane, Lee was a weaker but still significant storm as it made its way toward Canada on Saturday. Coastal residents were on the alert.
Tropical storm conditions were occurring in coastal Massachusetts and Nova Scotia before dawn on Saturday, hours before the storm’s expected landfall in Canada.
The discovery came 36 years after the shuttle exploded over the Atlantic Ocean, killing all seven crew members on board, in one of the worst accidents of the American space program.