Forecasters expect depression nearing Florida to become tropical storm

MIAMI, FLORIDA — A tropical depression over Cuba is growing better organized, forecasters said Saturday, and is likely to bring drenching rain and coastal flooding to much of Florida's Gulf Coast. The storm strengthened into a tropical depression late Friday and is expected to become a tropical storm by Saturday night, once it has maximum sustained winds of 63 kilometers per hour (39 miles per hour) or more. If the depression reaches tropical storm status, it would be named Debby, the fourth named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season.