The latest update on the Category 2 storm warns life-threatening storm surge continues along much of the Louisiana coastline

Ken Graham, the director of the National Hurricane Center, said that while Laura has weakened since landfall, it’s expected to remain a hurricane as it travels northward throughout Louisiana today.

“We expect Hurricane Laura to still be a hurricane even when you get up tp Shreveport, right on the Arkansas border,” he said on CNN’s New day.

Hurricane Laura made landfall near Cameron, Louisiana, as a Category 4 storm overnight. Since then, it has weakened to a Category 2, with winds of 110 mph.