LAKE CHARLES, La. – Louisiana officials now know of 6 deaths tied to Hurricane Laura.
The fatalities included a 24-year-old male that died of carbon monoxide poisoning from a generator inside his residence, Mike Steele, communications director for the Louisiana Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness said.
A man, whose age is unknown, died of drowning while aboard a sinking ship.
Earlier Thursday, a 14-year-old girl died when a tree crashed onto her family’s mobile home near Leesville, the Vernon Parish Sherriff’s Office said.
劳拉（Laura）在周四早些时候爆炸了路易斯安那州海岸，并将登陆为4级飓风，造成了赌场城市查尔斯湖的工业破坏。
The storm has left more than 875,000 people without power.
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德克萨斯州的奥兰治 - 德克萨斯州劳拉飓风袭击的一些城市和社区在路易斯安那州边界附近。
在德克萨斯州的奥兰治和得克萨斯州牛顿县附近，许多街道被劳拉（Laura）强大的风推翻的大树木所封锁。
Many homes had wind damage or damage from fallen trees. Nearly all businesses appeared to be closed as much of the area was still without electricity.
By Thursday afternoon, crews were clearing debris from streets and fixing power lines. Some residents could be seen using chainsaws to clear fallen trees in front of their homes.
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LAKE CHARLES, La. — Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards said state officials now know of four deaths tied to Hurricane Laura.
爱德华兹说，死亡都是由居住的树木造成的。在弗农，杰克逊和阿卡迪亚教区，没有人在海岸上。路易斯安那州杰克逊的一场死亡证明了这场风暴的力量，这使登陆成为星期四早些时候的4类风暴，并前往内陆更远的内陆。
Edwards said the current priority is search and rescue, followed by efforts to find hotel or motel rooms for those who have lost their homes.
Hotel rooms are needed because conventional communal shelters pose a risk for spreading the coronavirus, he said.
Edwards said storm surge was measured in the range of 9 feet to 12 feet (2.7 to 3.7 meters) — bad but far less than the 20 feet (6 meters) that had been forecast. He said that has led him to hope that there will be less water damage to homes close to the coast, and that damaged homes can be made habitable more quickly.
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在阿肯色州小石城的。— Tropical Storm Laura is thrashing parts of southern Arkansas with powerful winds and heavy rainfall as the storm system lunges its way through the state after battering the Louisiana Gulf Coast.
Downed trees and structural damage were reported in some parts of Arkansas at midday Thursday, and more than 30,000 homes and businesses in the state were without electricity.
The National Weather Service says the damaging winds and torrential rains will be in the Little Rock area later Thursday afternoon and evening. Many schools canceled classes or had early dismissals in anticipation of Laura’s arrival.
Forecasters say there’s also the risk of isolated tornadoes in the eastern part of the state.
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump says he will visit the Gulf Coast this weekend to tour damage from one of the fiercest hurricanes to hit the United States.
Trump said he would visit Texas and Louisiana on Saturday or Sunday to survey the destruction caused by Laura, which Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards said has killed at least four people.
劳拉（Laura）周四早些时候猛烈抨击墨西哥湾沿岸，并穿过路易斯安那州。据报道，路易斯安那州的大部分损害。这场风暴在路易斯安那州的查尔斯湖上桶，这是一个拥有80,000人的工业和赌场城市。
Extensive property damage has been reported; a floating casino that came unmoored hit a bridge.
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf told Trump that the situation on the ground “is fluid and challenging,” but the Federal Emergency Management Agency is responding.
飓风的最高风速为150 mph（241 kph），使其成为美国最有记录的最强大的。
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ORANGE, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says his state appeared to have made it through Hurricane Laura with minimal or no loss of life, which he said was a “miracle.”
Abbott on Thursday described seeing roofs sheared off buildings and uprooted trees following aerial tour of the damage near the state border with Louisiana. The storm surge that was predicted to be as high as 10 feet (3 meters) before landfall wound up being closer to 3 feet (0.9 meters), he said.
And nearly 12 hours after landfall, Abbott says there were still no confirmed fatalities.
Abbott said about 8,500 people were served in Texas shelters. He said the state minimized potential loss of life because residents in the storm’s path heeded local advance warnings to evacuate.
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BATON ROUGE, La. — Greg Langley, spokesman for the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, said emergency crews in the Lake Charles area were working a fire at a chemical plant that handles chlorine for swimming pools, in an emergency that had area residents under a shelter-in-place directive.
Monitors from agency workers in the area so far have failed to pick up indications of a chlorine leak, Langley said.
兰利说，州警察，消防员和其他紧急工人正在做出回应，环境保护局的飞机正在监视头顶。
Storm damage meant crews had difficulty clearing downed utility equipment and trees and other wreckage to reach the site.
兰利说，到目前为止，他还不知道暴风雨的其他重大工业威胁。他说，路易斯安那州的环境官员将在航空官员清理时在风暴地区上空，寻找其他行业大火或泄漏的迹象。
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AUSTIN, Texas — Police in Austin, Texas, say a bystander was shot and killed after a fight broke out among 60 people who had fled the Gulf Coast from Hurricane Laura.
Austin police say two groups of people who had left Port Arthur and Beaumont on the southeast Texas coast got into a large fight in a downtown Austin street at about 12:30 a.m. Thursday. Police say one person opened fire, striking a woman.
Police say the woman was homeless and had not been involved the fight. She was pronounced dead shortly after 1 a.m.
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迈阿密 - 劳拉飓风已减弱到热带风暴，最大持续风为70 mph（113 kph）。当局说，这场风暴现在是什里夫波特东南50英里（80公里）的50英里（80公里）。
Flooding rainfall and damaging winds spread inland over central and northern Louisiana, where the storm made landfall eleven hours earlier as a Category 4 storm.
Communities along the Gulf Coast experienced high water levels in the wake of Laura, the strongest storm to hit the U.S. this year.
More than 700,000 people in Louisiana and Texas were without power Thursday afternoon, according to the website PowerOutage.Us, which tracks utility reports.
National Weather Service officials said the remnants of Hurricane Laura could spawn tornadoes and cause flash flooding in parts of Arkansas and Tennessee.
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WESTLAKE, La. — Louisiana State Police say they’re responding to a chlorine leak at a company that makes chemicals along Interstate 10 just west of Lake Charles, La., which was hard-hit when Hurricane Laura slammed into the Gulf Coast early Thursday.
Police say the leak is at the BioLab chemical manufacturing facility in Westlake. Residents in the area are being told to close their doors and windows, turn off their air conditioning and stay inside.
Police say they’re working with plant managers to try and contain the leak. BioLab’s Lake Charles plant was built in 1979 and manufactures trichloroisocyanuric acid, chlorinating granules and other chemicals used in such household cleaners as Comet bleach scrub and pool chlorine powder.
Both trichloroisocyanuric acid and chlorine are potentially acutely toxic to people and animals if ingested or inhaled. Chlorine gas, which can appear in the air as a greenish yellow cloud, was used as a chemical weapon in World War 1. It is a potent irritant to the eyes, throat and lungs.
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路易斯安那州查尔斯湖 - 同盟国将军已成为劳拉飓风的受害者。自1915年以来，南方的捍卫者纪念碑一直站在路易斯安那州查尔斯湖的一家法院外，本月以10-4投票将其保留在原地。
Critics call it a symbol of racism that glorifies slavery. But a Calcasieu Parish official said they asked for public comments, and got 878 written responses against relocating the monument, and only 67 in favor of moving it.
Now the pedestal is empty, and the Confederate statue is in pieces on the ground, victim to a Category 4 hurricane that struck the city early Thursday.
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LAKE CHARLES, La. — A large chemical fire has sent a dangerous cloud over Lake Charles, Louisiana, hours after the eye of Hurricane Laura passed directly over the city.
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards says the fire was burning Thursday morning just outside the city, and he’s advising storm survivors to shelter in place.
爱德华兹（Edwards）发推文说，“在西湖/苔藓布拉夫/硫磺区域中”的人们应关闭窗户和门，并关闭空调单元。
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MIAMI — The National Hurricane Center says Laura remains a hurricane, sustaining top winds of 75 mph (120 kph) more than 170 miles (274 kilometers) after landfall.
周四凌晨1点左右，这场强大的风暴袭击了路易斯安那州西南部海岸卡梅伦附近的土地。九个小时后，路易斯安那州Natchitoches以北约10英里（16公里），尚未削弱到热带风暴中。
The hurricane is expected to keep drenching Louisiana and then Arkansas as a tropical storm, causing widespread flash flooding and damage from winds. It was moving north near 16 mph (26 kph).
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路易斯安那州查尔斯湖 - 报道来自路易斯安那州劳拉飓风的人。
布雷特·盖曼（Brett Geymann）住在查尔斯湖北部的莫斯布拉夫（Moss Bluff），并说暴风雨直接越过它们。他说，他的房子幸存下来，但他财产上的其他所有建筑物，结构和树都消失了。
Geymann says his family’s OK but “there’s destruction all around” them.
He says “It looks like 1,000 tornadoes” came through, with some houses “totally gone.”
查尔斯湖地区的无人机视频显示了水urrounding homes with large parts of their roofs peeled off, hotels with rooms exposed and giant trees uprooted.
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在阿肯色州小石城的。——飓风劳拉去经营rd Arkansas, where an unusual tropical storm warning has been issued for much of the state.
The storm is hitting during the state’s first week back at public school since March. Many schools in the southern half of Arkansas opted to cancel classes Thursday or dismiss early because of the storm.
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson declared an emergency and set aside $250,000 for the state to prepare for the hurricane’s impact. Hutchinson said the state will have search and rescue teams on standby.
Laura is now a Category 1 hurricane but still blowing hard enough to be deadly. The first reported death, of a girl whose house was hit by a tree, was in Leesburg, more than 100 miles (161 kilometers) inland from the coast.
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路易斯安那州查尔斯湖 - 劳拉飓风后出现的早期报道显示的伤害少于所担心的。
The eye passed directly over Lake Charles, where drone video shows roofs ripped off, exposing living rooms to the elements; trees downed and water overflowing the banks of coastal properties.
But Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Peter Gaynor says the damage seems to be less than what they feared with Laura hitting the coast as a potentially catastrophic Category 4 hurricane early Thursday.
Gaynor told ABC’s “Good Morning America” that the surge turned out to be less than what was forecast, but he expects significant wind damage to buildings once they do proper surveys of the disaster area.
路易斯安那州警察少校道格·凯恩（Doug Cain）说，他们收到了一份报道，称卡普里岛的河船赌场从停泊处断开，并陷入了查尔斯湖的10号州际公路桥梁。赌场说，其大皇宫河船拥有34场桌上游戏和1,175台老虎机。
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州长约翰·贝尔·爱德华兹（John Bel Edwards）说，他已经收到了路易斯安那州劳拉飓风的第一次死亡报告，他是一名14岁的女孩，当一棵树倒在莱斯堡的家中时死亡。
路易斯安那州和德克萨斯州的州长说，搜救团队仍在寻找，但他们还没有发现迄今为止造成广泛死亡的报道。
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is crediting the evacuations of thousands of people for preventing deaths in Texas. Edwards says they are only beginning to assess the damage.
Both governors say the storm surge appears to have been not as bad as they feared.
雅培说，飓风的风暴潮袭击了亚瑟港，博蒙特港和奥兰治的东得克萨斯州社区，一夜之间，飓风的眼睛继续移动约100英里（161公里）沿德克萨斯 - 路易斯安那州沿线。
