11:30 LRN newscast

The number of deaths from Louisiana’s winter storm is up to eight as the Louisiana Department of Health confirmed five additional winter-storm related deaths. One of the deaths is the result of carbon monoxide poisoning, an elderly man in DeSoto Parish had a generator running in his garage. Louisiana Health Secretary Bruce Greenstein…

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L-D-H says a 79-year-old woman in DeSoto Parish died to hypoxia following the failure of an electrically powered oxygen concentrator during a power outage. A 62-year-old male and 59-year-old female died in Sabine Parish from suspected hypothermia following a power outage. Entergy CEO Phillip May says they are working around the clock to restore the power…

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Entergy is reporting 84-thousand customers are still without power in Louisiana.

 

For those of you in North Louisiana, today is another day for you to stay off the roads. Andrew Greenstein reports.

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We told you in the last segment the death toll in Louisiana from this winter storm is now up to eight. One of those victims is from Texas. State Police say 46-year-old John Hordge of Dallas was traveling south on Louisiana Highway 177 yesterday when his pick-up truck drove off the road, hit a guardrail and overturned in a creek. State Police say Hordge was NOT wearing a seatbelt.