'We have until nightfall': Louisiana braces for Hurricane Delta

Officials on the Gulf Coast are warning residents to prepare as Hurricane Delta barrels toward the United States.

The Category 2 storm is moving northwest through the middle of the Gulf of Mexico at 14 miles per hour and packing maximum sustained winds of 105 mph, according to a late Thursday morning bulletin by the National Hurricane Center. Hurricane warnings are in effect from the eastern Texas coast through much of coastal Louisiana, with a tropical storm warning spanning the rest of the Bayou State.