Laura is now a major hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 115 miles per hour and it’s expected to keep getting stronger before making landfall early tomorrow morning near the Louisiana-Texas state line. Governor John Bel Edwards says there’s the potential for catastrophic storm surge…
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Storm surge from Sea Rim State Park to Intracoastal City could get up to 15 feet, which according to local officials would be higher than Hurricane Rita.
Extreme winds and flash flooding is expected as well. Calcasieu Parish has called for a mandatory evacuation. Sheriff Tony Mancuso…
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As of seven AM, Laura was 280 miles south-southeast of Lake Charles.

Damage from Hurricane Laura will not just be contained to southwest Louisiana. The National Hurricane Center predicts Laura will be a tropical storm in northwest Louisiana tomorrow afternoon. Matt Doyle has more…
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Over 400,000 Louisianans will receive federally boosted unemployment benefits today, a 900 dollar payment retroactive to August 1st. But Louisiana Workforce Commission Secretary Ava Dejoie says about 87,000 unemployed do not qualify, the main reason is that they do not earn enough in-state benefits.
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