Forecasters: Isaac begins to move inland in southeast Louisiana, top winds still at 80 mph
NEW ORLEANS - Hurricane Isaac is beginning to move inland in southeast Louisiana and remains a category storm with top sustained winds of 80 miles per hour.
The U.S. national Hurricane centre in Miami said before dawn Wednesday that Isaac's centre was expected to pass over Louisiana today and tomorrow and on to Arkansas early Friday. It will weaken over the next two days as it passes over land.
Isaac came ashore Tuesday night near the mouth of the Mississippi River, then went nearly stationary for several hours over the sparsely populated neck of land that stretches into the Gulf of Mexico. It was headed for New Orleans, 70 miles to the northwest, on the 7th anniversary of Katrina
