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caribbean, it could become a named storm as it moves further toward the east. meteorologist maria molina is tracking it from the fox weather center. reporter: hey, jon, we re talking about tropical depression 18 that has just officially formed, and it could be tropical storm sandy by later on today, so we are seeing the storm become better organized. showers and thunderstorms across the southwestern caribbean, and regardless of whether it becomes sandy later today or not, it is going to be producing a lot of heavy rain, possible mud slides across hispaniola, jamaica and portions of eastern cuba, so we do need to keep a close watch on this storm system, especially across the caribbean in the next several days. it could become a tropical storm system, could be near hurricane strength as it does approach jamaica early wednesday morning, and the storm system is forecast to move through the bahamas and by next weekend just be off the wees coast of the east coast of the u.s. keeping a cl