Louisiana. Hurricane laura could spring the storm surge that has not affected the gulf coast since Hurricane Katrina in 05. Lets get to katie beck, who is live in lake charles, louisiana, in the direct path of this storm. We were talking about 45 minutes ago, and it was really starting to ramp up. Bill cairns was just telling us in your area, amazing wind gusts of over 130 miles an hour. You are certainly seeing that. Reporter absolutely. That explains why several of the windows have blown out in our hotel. Weve seen street signs just tossed down the road. If you hear those loud noises, thats likely what it is. Theres lots of signage flying around at this point. We are under cover, so i do have some safety, but im keeping an eye on whats going on behind me, because there are objects flying around. We have been told within minutes, the eye will be coming over us. We have been experiencing the impacts as that eyewall came ashore earlier tonight. And they have intensified with every passi
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it is expected to make landfall on florida s west coast soon as a massive category 4 storm, and it is set to strike florida s west coast right where the florida panhandle curves into the peninsula. authorities are describing the potential storm surge as catastrophic. back with me now is a former florida emergency management director for broward county and miami-dade. glad to have you back with us, again, chuck. we re talking about this and saying, you know, other emergency management personnel are saying when it comes to this storm and you re trying to compare it to others, don t because you won t be able to. given that what would you say are the other top priorities as we wait for the hurricane to make landfall? for those involved right now, the previous person on was talking about how they re getting a lot of calls to 911. those will continue. the people that are there, unable to get out of their homes calling 911 they ll have to wait