Happening Now — Hurricane Hermine made landfall in Florida with a furious mix of rain, whistling winds and surging waves — then weakened into a tropical storm as it wobbled toward Georgia.

Hermine, which had maximum sustained winds of 130 km/h, was the first hurricane to come ashore in Florida since Wilma struck 11 years ago.

It made landfall in the Big Bend area, a part of the coast where the state’s peninsula meets the Panhandle.

In Tallahassee, more than 70,000 utility customers were without power as winds and rain lashed the city.