The state health department reported 93 new COVID Deaths on Tuesday, the highest single-day total since January as the statewide death toll reached 11,353. New numbers will come out later today.

As the fourth surge of COVID continues, optimism dwindles among small business owners…
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The LHSAA has told schools that if they have to cancel a game because of COVID cases within their team, it will result in a forfeit.

Tropical Storm Fred appears headed for the Florida Panhandle but the Louisiana/Mississippi Line is on the edge of the system’s cone of uncertainty. State Climatologist Barry Keim says Fred is likely to lose tropical storm status sometime today as it crosses the mountains in Hispaniola.
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Fred is on track to enter the Gulf of Mexico Sunday and make landfall somewhere along the Florida panhandle on Monday.

The US Senate has approved a one-point-two trillion-dollar infrastructure bill and it now heads to the House. Senator Bill Cassidy says the legislation contains nearly six billion dollars for Louisiana, a figure Senator John Kennedy disputes. New Orleans Congressman Troy Carter believes there’s enough money to make some dramatic improvements…
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No word on when the U-S House will begin debate on the legislation.