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New today: Snapchat's Peter Hamby has an on-camera interview with former White House advisor Steve Bannon for his show "Good Luck America." In the interview, Bannon says "there's been a little softening of people around" Trump in the White House.
A satellite image of Hurricane Zeta. Photo: National Hurricane Center/NOAA
Hurricane Zeta is "battering southeastern Louisiana and southern Mississippi with life-threatening storm surge, high winds, and heavy rain," per the National Hurricane Center.
What's happening: The hurricane was producing maximum sustained winds of nearly 110 mph and stronger gusts after making landfall on the southeastern coast of Louisiana as a Category 2 storm earlier Wednesday.
Photo: Robert Alexander/Getty Images
The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a request by Republicans to shorten North Carolina's deadline for mail-in ballots from nine to three days.
The big picture: This is the latest of a series of decisions over mail-in ballot deadlines in various states.
Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios