10:30 AM Newscast

A small Jefferson Davis Parish town is in a predicament, torn between their allegiance to the Bayou Bengals and a hometown football star. Brooke Thorington explains.

Cut 1 (30) “I’m Brooke Thorington”

Monday is the start of the spring semester at LSU, but some students are hoping for the cancellation of classes because the Tigers will be playing in the College Football Playoff Championship Game that night at the Superdome. However, the university has announced no plans to cancel classes for Monday or Tuesday.

Walk On’s restaurants will be showcased on national television with the season premiere of Undercover Boss on CBS tonight.  Co-Founder Brandon Landry and investor Drew Brees will be disguised to work with the staff at some of the locations throughout the chain.  Landry says the CBS makeup team had a big challenge cloaking Brees.

Cut 10 (10) “…not get that.”

The episode airs tonight at 7. Watch parties will be held at all 33 locations.

LSU Astronomy researchers predict there will be a massive cosmic explosion that will provide stargazers something special, but it will not happen until 2083. Professor Juhan Frank (You-han Fronck) says a white dwarf and a star three times the size of the sun are spiraling towards each other 7,700 lightyears away and its set to end in a bang…
cut 7 (13) “…explosion”
The end result of the merger will produce a single star.