Louisiana officials now know of 6 deaths tied to Hurricane Laura.
Besides the four they earlier identified, the fatalities included a 24-year-old male who died from carbon monoxide poisoning from a generator inside his residence and a man who drowned when his vessel sank, authorities said.
Next stop: southern Arkansas. It was moving north to northeast at about 15 mph. Tropical storm warnings remained in effect inland over portions of northern Louisiana, southern Arkansas, and extreme western Mississippi.–Chris Woodyard, USA TODAY | 5:08 p.m. CSTMajor airlines are making it easy for flierswhen it comes to the once-destructive hurricane, now tropical storm, Laura.
The center of the hurricane came ashore about 10 to 12 miles farther east than what had been forecast, saving the city from a direct hit and a worse storm surge, said Steve Goldstein, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration liaison for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. , 614,000 customers were without electricity in Louisiana. In Texas, more than 186,000 outages were reported.
“This was a serious storm,” Pence said. “We were ready for the worst. ... It was not as bad as it could have been.”
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