Hurricane Gil weakened into a tropical storm in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Saturday and was not forecast to threaten land.

MEXICO CITY -- Hurricane Gil was continuing to churn in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Saturday but is not expected to threaten land and is likely to decrease in strength rapidly over the weekend, forecasters said.

Tropical Storm Gil continued to hold steady as it went across the Pacific Ocean on Saturday, Aug. 2. While it became a hurricane the day before, Gil was later downgraded back to a tropical storm. As of Saturday afternoon,