National and International News-Monday

LES CAYES, Haiti (AP) - Tropical Storm Ernesto is blamed for at least one death in Haiti and is swirling toward Cuba, where officials have ramped up emergency preparations. The National Hurricane Center in Miami expects Ernesto to return to hurricane strength before it reaches the Gulf of Mexico.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER (AP) - Preparations are under way at the Kennedy Space Center to bring space shuttle Atlantis back inside. NASA managers have an eye on Tropical Storm Ernesto. If it turns away from Florida, they may still try a launch tomorrow.

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A car packed with explosives slammed into a checkpoint outside the Interior Ministry in Baghdad today. At least14 people were killed and more than 40 wounded. Many of them are Iraqi police officers.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal investigators will transcribe the pilots' last words from the cockpit voice recorder and download other crucial information from the commuter jet that crashed in Kentucky yesterday. They want to know how the Comair flight ended up on a runway too short for a commercial jet. Forty-nine people died.

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - A retired public defender considered a D-N-A specialist is one of the lawyers who will represent John Karr at his first Colorado court hearing today. Karr says he was with child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey when she died, but he hasn't been formally charged.