Delta weakens to tropical storm: Live updates: Live updates

Delta made landfall as a Category 2 hurricane on the southwestern Louisiana coast near Creole early Friday evening, according to the National Hurricane Center.

The hurricane, the first with a Greek letter to hit the U.S. mainland and the fourth-named storm to hit Louisiana this year, is the ninth hurricane of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season.

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Hurricane Delta makes landfall Hunter Fontenot, 3, looks out the window of his uncle's house in Lake Charles as Hurricane Delta bears down on the area. (Gerald Herbert/Associated Press )

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