Tropical storm conditions were occurring in coastal Massachusetts and Nova Scotia before dawn on Saturday, hours before the storm’s expected landfall in Canada.
People in Maine and Massachusetts, accustomed to powerful nor’easters if not hurricanes, dutifully prepared but appeared largely unfazed by the foul weather to come.
In a letter to the Justice Department, Gov. Gavin Newsom, the California attorney general and a Texas sheriff said the Florida-funded program was based on deception.