hurricane laura

Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson said Wednesday his city is working with the state of Texas to consolidate and house thousands of Hurricane Laura evacuees in three Dallas hotels. Johnson made the announcement during a news conference Wednesday afternoon, telling the evacuees “this has, without a doubt, been a challenging year for you and we want to make this latest transition…

The State and City of Dallas are working to move roughly 5,000 evacuees from nearly 40 North Texas hotels into a few larger properties in Dallas. Evacuees tell NBC 5’s Candace Sweat the process has been anything but smooth.

Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson said Wednesday his city is working with the state of Texas to consolidate and house thousands of Hurricane Laura evacuees in three Dallas hotels. NBC 5’s Ken Kalthoff reports.

Hurricane Laura caused significant damage at a site holding about 30% of the nation’s store of emergency crude oil, but three other sites still have plenty of petroleum, U.S. Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette said Wednesday.

Two men in their 40s died in Louisiana from what health officials said was heat-related illness while clearing debris from Hurricane Laura, bringing the number of deaths blamed on the storm in the state to 22, NBC News reports.

Two more deaths in Louisiana have been blamed on Hurricane Laura, which made landfall there last month as a Category 4 storm, bringing the deaths in that state to at least 19, officials said. The new deaths in Rapides Parish, involved people who died from medical conditions that were exacerbated by excessive heat and the loss of electricity, the Louisiana…

On Wednesday, workers at the World Vision warehouse in Grand Prairie filled a truck with disaster relief supplies, bound for Lake Charles, Louisiana, which was impacted by Hurricane Laura.

Hundreds of thousands are without power in the areas hardest hit by Hurricane Laura, and sweltering heat is making matters worse.

Louisiana residents forced to evacuate because of Hurricane Laura are returning home to survey the damage to their homes and businesses, and some worry they won’t get enough help from state and federal officials

As evacuated Lake Charles residents began returning home, many worried that they wouldn’t have enough support from both the federal and state governments as they face a rebuilding process certain to take several months, if not longer.

Key state and federal air hazard monitors are offline in Louisiana after Hurricane Laura hit the heavily industrialized coast.

President Donald Trump is getting a firsthand look at the damage from Hurricane Laura

A medical team at a southwestern Louisiana hospital worked through the night to care for 19 tiny babies as Hurricane Laura slammed the region

Residents in southwestern Louisiana are embarking on the epic task of clearing away felled trees, ripped-off roofs and downed power lines after Hurricane Laura tore through parts of the state

Homeowners in Lake Charles surveyed the damage and began cleaning up on Friday after Hurricane Laura left a trail of destruction.

The death toll from Hurricane Laura has risen to at least 14, and hundreds of thousands of people across Louisiana are still without power or water. Officials said Friday that those services could be knocked out for weeks or longer along parts of the Gulf Coast.

On Thursday, Hurricane Laura hit Cameron, Louisiana, as a Category 4 storm, bringing 150 mph winds and damaging storm surges to an area that’s still recovering from previous storms such as Katrina and Harvey.  State officials in Texas and Louisiana ordered over 1.5 million residents to evacuate, but some of the communities in the evacuation zones are among the poorest...