After making landfall in Cameron around one o’clock this morning as a Category Four hurricane with 150 mile per hour winds. Laura’s maximum sustained winds are down to 120 miles per hour as it continues to move northward over southwestern Louisiana at 15 miles per hour. The center of the storm is 30 miles north-northwest of Lake Charles.

The entire Louisiana National Guard has been activated for this monster storm, which was expected to produce a 20-foot storm surge. Sergeant Denis Ricou says that means over three-thousand guardsmen…
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The state fire marshal’s office has search and rescue teams ready. State Fire Marshal Butch Browning..
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As we told you in the first segment, Laura, with 120-mile per hour winds is making its way towards northwest Louisiana where Hurricane warnings are posted as far north as DeSoto Parish. Sheriff Jason Richardson says they dealt with Hurricane Rita in 2005, but Laura could top that…
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Governor Edwards has extended phase two coronavirus restrictions for another two weeks until September 11th. Mass evacuations out of southwest Louisiana is one of the reasons why it was extended. Edwards says hundreds of thousands left for other parts of the state and that region has the highest positivity rate in Louisiana. And…
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The state reported 846 additional coronavirus cases yesterday and 32 deaths.