Governor John Bel Edwards is in Washington D.C. where he’s seeking $2 billion dollars from the federal government that will go towards helping flood victims repair their homes. The governor meets today with Congressional leaders and he’ll explain the level of damage the historic flood spread across 20-plus parishes…:
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The governor will also plans to discuss temporary and long-term housing recovery efforts with the secretary of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development.

It doesn’t look like we’ll see a lot of FEMA mobile homes in Louisiana. Spokesman Tito Hernandez says the temporary housing is a last resort…:
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And Hernandez says they talked to three-thousand families who qualified for a mobile home, but many of them were not interested.

Republican Congressman John Fleming begins airing television ads statewide for his U.S. Senate campaign. Emelie Gunn has more…
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First Lady Donna Edwards has been busy trying to help raise money for the Fund for Restoring Schools, which is collecting donations for flood impacted students and teachers. Edwards says many teachers lost everything…
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