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Hurricane Laura live coverage: After historic storm makes landfall in Louisiana, forecasters warn of 'catastrophic storm surge'


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While Laura was expected to weaken rapidly into a tropical storm by this afternoon, forecasters continued to warn of flooding danger.The National Hurricane Center said in its update that "damaging winds and flooding rainfall" were spreading over western and central Louisiana as the storm moves inland. As of right now, the president plans to speak tomorrow.”– USA TODAY's Michael Collins from Washington | 6:45 a.m. CDTWhile authorities ordered most people in Laura's path to get out of harm's way, police in a Louisiana parish say some are hunkered down and calling for help.“There are some people still in town and people are calling … but there ain’t no way to get to them,” Tony Guillory, president of the Calcasieu Parish Police Jury, said early Thursday from inside a Lake Charles government building that was shaking from the storm.Guillory said he hopes stranded people can be rescued later Thursday but fears that blocked roads, downed power lines and flooding could get in the way. Throughout the night, forecasters warned those who had not evacuated to expect both tornado-force winds and tornadoes being spun off by the hurricane.– USA TODAY's Rick Jervis from Port Arthur, Texas | 2:29 a.m. CDTHurricane Laura made landfall just before 1 a.m. local time Thursday as a dangerous Category 4 hurricane with winds of 150 mph.The storm raced toward the Louisiana coast Wednesday, quickly intensifying with extreme winds just shy of a Category 5 storm.This visualization shows Laura plowing through the Gulf of Mexico and over the Louisiana coast near Cameron just south of Lake Charles.– Dinah Voyles Pulver, The (Lafayette, La.) Daily Advertiser | 2:13 a.m. CDTMore than half a million people were ordered to evacuate Tuesday, the largest evacuation in the U.S. amid the coronavirus pandemic.Emergency officials with Jefferson County, which includes Port Arthur, staged a number of “hubs” to collect residents and transport them to other areas around Texas, rather than shelter them there, said Allison Getz, a county spokeswoman.

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