Aerial footage shows the massive amount of damage that Hurricane Laura caused. | cheddar news

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"We're going to see widespread destruction, especially in the highest winds of the storm which could in some cases top 120 or 130 mph," Greg Dutra reports on #HurricaneLaura. abcn.ws/2YBCG0u | ABC News Live

Hurricane Laura, a vast and still strengthening Category 4 storm, is approaching Texas and Louisiana in the latest sign of a climate emergency. The Nat’l Hurricane Center warned Wednesday of an ‘unsurvivable storm surge with large and destructive waves [that] will cause catastrophic damage.’ The storm’s outer bands began to make landfall midday, but the hurricane is so large that its core isn’t expected until Wednesday night. Ecologist Josh Lewis said Laura appears to be ‘the most powerful storm