Hurricane Olaf Barrels Toward Mexico's Los Cabos Resorts 

LA PAZ, MEXICO - Tropical Storm Olaf strengthened into a hurricane in the Pacific on Thursday as it churned toward the beach resorts of Los Cabos on Mexico's Baja California peninsula, meteorologists said. 

Olaf was packing maximum winds of 145 kilometers per hour (90 mph), making it a Category 1 hurricane, the lowest on the five-level Saffir-Simpson scale, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.  At 7 p.m. local time (0000 GMT Friday) the storm was about 72 km (45 miles) southeast of the seaside resort of Cabo San Lucas and moving northwest at 16 kph (10 mph), it reported.  Mexico's National Meteorological Service warned that Olaf was likely to make landfall as a Category 2 storm.