Hurricane Kay set to brush Mexico’s Baja peninsula

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Kay is steaming toward a possible brush with land on a sparsely populated stretch of Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula. And forecasters say it might bring rains to southernmost California by the weekend. Authorities opened shelters and closed some roads ahead of Kay, which had maximum sustained winds of 80 mph Thursday. Forecasters said it could bring hurricane-force winds to parts of the peninsula. Forecasters say there is a chance the outer bands of the big storm could bring heavy rain — and possibly flash floods — to parts of scorched Southern California and southwestern Arizona on Friday night and Saturday.