Storm's force collapses a building in Florida

Tropical Storm Nicole hit Florida as a hurricane Thursday, washing away the remaining protections for a stretch of beachfront properties that lost their seawall during Hurricane Ian only weeks before.

The storm covered nearly the entire weather-weary state of Florida early Thursday while also reaching into Georgia and the Carolinas. Damaging winds extended as far as 720 kilometers from the center in some directions as Nicole turned northward over central Florida Thursday morning.