MIAMI – A re-energized Tropical Storm Cristobal advanced toward the U.S. Gulf Coast early Saturday, bringing with it the heavy rains that already caused flooding and mudslides in Mexico and Central America.After weakening to a tropical depression while moving over land in Mexico's Gulf coast, Cristobal headed back into the southern Gulf of Mexico from the Yucatan Peninsula on Friday and powered back up into a tropical storm.
Forecasters said it would arrive on U.S. soil late Sunday but was not expected to grow into a hurricane.The National Hurricane Center in Miami said in its 7 a.m.
advisory Saturday that the storm was expected to slowly strengthen until it makes landfall, expected Sunday night along the U.S.