BATON ROUGE — Gov. Jeff Landry and other state leaders gathered Wednesday afternoon to provide Louisianians with an update on Tropical Storm Bertha. 

Landry and the other officials are meeting at 2 p.m. at the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness' State Emergency Operations Center along Independence Boulevard in Baton Rouge. 

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As of Wednesday morning, Bertha was sitting off the Louisiana coast with 50 MPH winds, WBRZ's Storm Station Meteorologists said.

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