Hurricane Sally is barely moving this morning at only two miles per hour as the center of the storm is 60 miles east-southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River. Its maximum sustained winds are at 85 miles per hour. Sally is expected to head north this afternoon and make landfall near the Mississippi-Alabama border.

Kevin Barnhart reports Sally is in no rush to make landfall…
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Sally is currently a Category One storm and we’ll make landfall late tonight or early tomorrow morning as a tropical storm.

It looks like Louisiana’s coastal parishes in southeast Louisiana have dodged a bullet from Hurricane Sally as the storm will stay to the east of the Bayou State. Plaquemines Parish President Kirk Lepine says residents did not take the threat from Sally lightly…
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The state has been concerned about Hurricane Laura evacuees who are sheltering in hotels in New Orleans. Governor Edwards says they had no plans to move those evacuees…
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