Francine weakens to tropical storm after slamming into Louisiana coast

Category 2 hurricane left trail of flooding and wind damage, including 6-8in of rain in New Orleans

Francine's center moved inland on Thursday after making landfall as a category 2 hurricane and had weakened to a tropical storm leaving a trail of flooding and wind damage in its wake.

Francine will now progressively deteriorate as it tracks across west-central Mississippi into the mid-south on Thursday and Friday. The storm is forecast to spin down and become a tropical depression by late Thursday and a post-tropical cyclone by Thursday night or early Friday.