LEMON: So, the breaking news tonight is on the Gulf Coast. Hurricane Delta is pounding southwest Louisiana with powerful winds, heavy rain after making landfall a few hours ago. There you see him up on your screen right now. Martin Savidge is in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Give us the latest, Martin.</s>MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Don, this is the second hurricane in six weeks to strike just about the same part of Louisiana, conditions starting to ease or improve here in Lake Charles. Winds are dying down. It was a category two storm that came ashore. Quickly went down to a category one. The problem with Lake Charles getting hit was the fact that it got hit by a category four storm, that was Laura, just six weeks ago it devastated this town. And so many of the structures were already weaken. The mayor estimates about 95 percent of the buildings had suffered in some way including homes, and then you got another powerful storm that comes in. They began evacuating on Wednesday. They hope many people left. But here's the thing. The mayor is reporting they have received emergency call 911 calls from people needing help in the midst of the storm. It was too dangerous for the crews to go out. They will have to wait until the winds here and the conditions improve and the winds subside. They are very practice tragically at doing this. Search and recovery will begin as soon as this storm moves away, and once again this community will have to try to rebuild but the problem is all that debris that was laying around the streets, tons of it, much of it went airborne and is likely to have done additional death. So those that left will come home they have to start all over again, Don.</s>LEMON: Sadly. Martin Savidge, thank you very much. Martin is going to keep an eye on it and we'll get back to him if need to be throughout the hours here on CNN. We'll be right back.
Hurricane Delta Battered Gulf Coast.