pummel louisiana for hours on end and these are pictures from golden meadow earlier today. i want to go straight to the cnn weather center for a reset of what is going on with tom sater. you have the power of the storm. you have slow speed. that is really hurting louisiana right now. >> yeah, that's been our concern all along. that the power and force of this this little cannon ball is more compact. again, the power of this, get this, some of those darker colors, but we're still seeing winds drop 115 miles per hour category 3. for five hours today, the state of category 4 status inland is twice as long as hurricane laura last year kept its power. it's twice as long as hurricane michael that devastated mexico beach kept its power. central daylight time before noon, here we are at 8:30 it's only moved 60 miles.