Hurricane Laura live updates: Louisiana, Texas coasts slammed with damaging winds, flooding

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Hurricane Laura knocks out power for hundreds of thousands

Heavy winds batter Lake Charles, Louisiana; Leland Vittert reports.

Hurricane Laura battered the Louisiana and Texas coasts as it made landfall early Thursday as an "extremely dangerous" Category 4 storm before slowly weakening to a tropical storm by midday.

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