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August 24, 2020

Hurricane Laura Kills at Least 9 People in Caribbean as It Heads to Southern U.S., on Heels of Storm Marco
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In the Gulf of Mexico, Hurricane Marco weakened to a tropical storm as
it approached Louisiana this morning - the first of two major storms
expected to wallop the Gulf Coast in just 48 hours. In the Caribbean,
Tropical Storm Laura flooded homes and killed at least nine people in
Haiti and the Dominican Republic. It's expected to strengthen to a
hurricane ahead of its landfall between Houston and New Orleans late
Wednesday.


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