Hurricane Laura made landfall as a Category Four hurricane early this morning in Cameron, with maximum sustained winds at 150 miles per hour. It goes down as the strongest hurricane to make landfall in Louisiana in 164 years.

State Fire Marshal Butch Browning says about 500 Urban Search and Rescue team members, many from other states, are ready to help in the aftermath…
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The Louisiana National Guard has more than three-thousand Guardsmen who are ready to assist in search and rescue operations. Sergeant Denis Ricou…
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Guardsmen have also strategically placed 921-thousand liters of water and 528-thousand M-R-Es for potential distribution.

Hurricane Laura is now a Category Two storm with maximum sustained winds at 110 miles per hour. The center of the storm is 45 miles north-northwest of Lake Charles.

The storm will continue to head north on the western side of Louisiana. Desoto Parish Sheriff Jayson Richardson says they are expecting hurricane strength winds…
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And five to eight inches of rain, possibly up to 10 inches.