This live blog was originally published Aug. 29, 2005, and updated as Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. It is part of The Times-Picayune's Pulitzer-winning coverage of Katrina and is being republished for the 20th anniversary of the storm.

Katrina now a category 4 hurricane, eyewall is three hours from the city

Early morning Monday, August 29, 2005

Monday at 3 a.m., the eyewall of a slightly weakened Hurricane Katrina was beginning to cross Southwest Pass at the mouth of the Mississippi River on its way due north at 15 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center. Katrina now has maximum sustained winds of 150 mph, still a strong Category 4 storm.

With a track that's slightly eastward of earlier forecasts, local emergency preparedness officials said early Monday that it could resul

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