Hurricane Francine barreled Wednesday toward Louisiana and is expected to make landfall in the coming hours as forecasters raised threats of potentially deadly storm surge, widespread flooding and destructive winds on the northern U.S. Gulf coast.
Hurricane Francine takes aim at the Louisiana coast amid fears of storm surge and flooding
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