 Live from NPR News in Boston, I'm Steve Brown. Hurricane Beryl has slammed into Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula as a Category 2 storm after leaving a trail of destruction and at least 11 dead across the Caribbean. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said early today that Beryl is expected to rapidly weaken to a tropical storm as it crosses over the peninsula before it re-emerges into the Gulf of Mexico and likely regains hurricane strength.