Hurricane Francine batters US state of Louisiana

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00:00As seen from the inside of a fishing boat, this is Hurricane Francine making landfall

00:06in Dulac, southern Louisiana. Electricity was knocked out for 300,000 people as the

00:12storm moved across the state from the Gulf of Mexico, bringing with it heavy rain, strong

00:17winds and flooding. Earlier, people prepared by boarding up buildings and stocking up on

00:22supplies.

00:23We're out here serving our community. We love everyone here, so we want to make sure that

00:28they have gas for their generators and they have their essentials that they need.

00:33After crashing ashore as a Category 2 hurricane with wind speeds of more than 150 kilometres

00:38an hour, the storm then weakened, but still brought with it a dangerous storm surge with

00:44a flash flood emergency issued for the city of New Orleans.

00:49Thousands of people in parishes around the coast were put under mandatory evacuation

00:53orders, and everyone else in the storm's path was told to hunker down. Many of them

00:59have suffered devastating hurricanes in the past.

01:03We've seen some bad storms. I was here for Andrew and I never want to see that one again.

01:10But we're worried about some of the storm surge, things of that nature.

01:15The Atlantic hurricane season, which began in June, has seen three hurricanes so far,

01:20fewer than scientists were expecting.

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