 also the earliest Category 4 hurricane on record in the Atlantic hurricane season. The prime minister of St. Vincent in the Grenadines says that on Union Island there, 90% of houses are either damaged or destroyed, and that the airport's roof has been ripped off. Fox Weather's Max Gordon. Robert Towne, the Oscar-winning screenplay writer of Chinatown Shampoo and The Last Detail, has died. His publicist says Towne died yesterday, surrounded by family at his home in Los Angeles. He was 89. America is listening to Fox News.