i'm robyn curnow. sow we begin with the breaking news of the most powerful hurricane to strike the louisiana coast in more than 160 years. take a look at the images. hurricane laura made landfall near cameron, louisiana about an hour ago, as don and chris have been saying. it is a strong category 4 storm. now winds topping 100 miles per hour, or 160 kilometers an hour as the storm approached. the national hurricane center says the storm surge up to 20 feet, or 6 meter, is unsurvivable. well, that unprecedented warning came as flooding already engulfed coastal areas. officials expect the devastation to be immense over very wide area. anyone who did not evacuate is told to prepare for hours of destructive winds, heavy rains, no power, and record flooding that could last days. tom sater joins me now with more on the path of the hurricane as it moves ashore. i know you've had a busy night. the superlatives in trying to describe this hurricane as it makes landfall are also out of this world, catastrophic, u