The coastal districts of Andhra Pradesh are gripped with severe cyclonic storm, Laila that lay centered at about 530 km west-southwest of Visakhapatnam in Bay of Bengal. The cyclonic storm over southwest and adjoining west-central Bay of Bengal moved westwards and is likely to intensify further and move in a west-northwesterly direction for some time and then veer-off in a northwesterly to northerly direction and cross Andhra Pradesh coast between Ongole and Visakhapatnam by early hours on Thursday. <br/>