Hurricane loses power

The first named storm of the eastern Pacific hurricane system weakened into a tropical depression Monday as it headed away from Mexico’s southwestern coast toward open seas.

The US National Hurricane Center said that Andres, which had become a tropical storm Sunday, was centered about 475 miles south of the southern tip of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula at midafternoon Monday.

It had maximum sustained winds of 35 mph and was moving north-northwest at 7 mph.