As of the 10am update, Hurricane Nate is now packing winds up to 90 miles per hour and is expected to be a Category 2 storm at landfall. The system is now speeding near 26 miles per hour north-northwest and that’s expected to continue through this evening. The National Hurricane Center still expects a turn toward the north tonight, and then northeast before moving across the northern Gulf of Mexico and making landfall along the central Gulf Coast around midnight.

Alek Krautmann with the National Weather Service in Slidell says southeast Louisiana could be looking at power outages from the tropical storm force winds…:
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Governor John Bel Edwards will meet with the Unified Command Group to receive updates on Hurricane Nate at GOHSEP, then will hold a news conference to discuss the latest information on the storm around noon.

The early voting period for the October 14th election concludes today at 6pm and the Secretary of State’s office says the turnout for the first five days was not great. Jeff Palermo has the story…:
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LSU is set to take on 20th ranked Florida in the Swamp in Gainesville this afternoon at 2:30pm, and two Tiger standouts on both sides of the ball, running back Derrius Guice and defensive end Rashard Lawrence, are expected to return to the field. The program says The Bayou Bengals head into this game coming off a good week of practice.