Alton Sterling’s oldest son called for peace at a press conference this morning outside of the store where his father was shot and killed by police. 15-year-old Cameron Sterling says his father is a good man with a lot of people who love and care about him.
CUT 3 (08) “good man” 2x

The investment bank, Goldman Sachs is predicting the U.S. oil and gas industry will need to hire tens of thousands of workers when oil prices bounce back. But President of the Louisiana Oil and Gas Association Don Briggs Briggs says many who lost their jobs are thinking there is no way I’m going to get back into the industry after going through such a hard time. He expects it’ll take just as long to recover this time as it did from the 80s oil bust.
cut 11 (10) “is predicting”
Secretary of State Tom Schedler is not happy with comments made by Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser implying that voters can be bused in to early vote, sign a paper and have their vote count without being registers. Schedler says early voters must go to an approved early voting site, show valid ID, be registered to vote, and cast their ballot. He says statewide elected officials should “stay inside of their sandbox.”
cut 14 (08) “that first”

Nungesser issued a statement saying the comments were taken out of context.

NOAA predicts the brown shrimp commercial harvests in the western part of the Gulf to have a below-average season and that isn’t good for shrimpers. Louisiana Shrimp Association President Acy Cooper says the low supply of shrimp just adds to the problems the industry is already facing, like cheap shrimp imports flooding the market and other federal regulations.
Cut 5 (05) “winter coming”