UPDATE: Hurricane Isaac makes landfall in Louisiana

Tuesday, August 28, 2012 | 9:18 p.m. CDT; updated 11:54 p.m. CDT, Tuesday, August 28, 2012

NEW ORLEANS — Hurricane Isaac spun into the southern Louisiana coast late Tuesday, sending floodwaters surging and unleashing fierce winds as residents hunkered down behind boarded-up windows. New Orleans calmly waited out another storm on the eve of Hurricane Katrina's seventh anniversary, hoping the city's strengthened levees will hold.

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