Hurricane Laura roared across the Louisiana coastline early Thursday as a Category 4 storm, bringing 150-mph winds and devastating destruction that will come into full view as the sun rises.
Laura -- the region's strongest storm in over a century -- made landfall at about 1 a.m. CT as a Category 4 storm with winds of 150 mph. By 5 a.m. CT, the storm had weakened to Category 2 over west-central Louisiana, with still-powerful maximum sustained winds of 110 mph.
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