Tropical Storm Ernesto Strengthens Over Caribbean

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Tropical Storm Ernesto strengthened over the central Caribbean on Saturday as it headed toward Jamaica and the Cayman Islands, threatening to become the first hurricane of the 2006 Atlantic season, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. Ernesto, which formed Friday, was projected to reach hurricane strength early next week and enter the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday or Wednesday, but it was too soon to predict whether it would hit the United States, said Robbie Berg, a forecaster with the hurricane center in Miami. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,210441,00.html