Louisiana Gov. calls inbound storms 'one-two punch'

Lousiana Gov. John Bel Edwards called two incoming tropical storms expected to make landfall in Louisiana a "one-two punch."

"We're going to get basically a right hook from Marco and n a left hook from from Laura," he said at a briefing Sunday evening.

Hurricane Marco is heing across Gulf of Mexico on a path toward Louisiana coast, and Tropical Storm Laura battered Dominican Republic and Haiti and has moved over eastern Cuba.

It follows a path likely to take it to same part of U.S. coast, also as a potential hurricane.

Laura killed at least seven people in Dominican Republic and Haiti.

It appears storms will t be hurricanes simultaneously — something that researchers say has never happened in Gulf of Mexico at least since records began being kept in 1900.

National Hurricane Center says Marco was about 240 miles (390 kilometers) south-souast of mouth of Mississippi River late Sunday afteron.

It h maximum sustained winds of 75 mph (120 kph). center warns of life-threatening storm surges and hurricane-force winds along Gulf Coast.