More than 400,000 customers are now without power as Hurricane Ida moves through Louisiana
Catch up: What you need to know about Hurricane Ida's landfall and where it's going next
Hurricane Ida slammed into Louisiana's coast near Port Fourchon earlier today as a Category 4 storm. If you're just reading in now, here's the latest on the hurricane:Landfall is when the eye is halfway over the coast. Extreme winds and surge will accompany the 1 p.m. ET landfall over the next several hours. A tornado watch is in effect until 8 p.m. ET for parts of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi, according to the Storm Prediction Center.
. And Tulane University in New Orleans is closed Sunday and Monday, less than a week after students returned to campus.The hurricane is expected to travel northward through Louisiana today, according to the latest advisory from the National Hurricane Center. It will curve eastward as it keeps traveling north through Mississippi tomorrow.Ida hit on the 16th anniversary of the historically devastating Hurricane Katrina.
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