1230 PM LRN News

Public Service Commission Chairman Craig Greene says once the winter weather has passed the PSC will investigate what went wrong. Greene says we just didn’t have the emergency capacity to keep everyone’s lights on during this historic week of winter weather.  

Cut 9 (12) “…affordability” 

The order to initiate rolling blackouts was made by MISO, a super-regional entity in charge of maintaining power reliability.   

Gas jumped three cents last night to 2.28 a gallon for regular as a result of the winter storm and AAA fuel analyst Don Redman warns that you should keep your tank full because there could be a gas shortage for the coming days. 

Cut 5  (10)  “…get it delivered” 

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475-thousand new Louisiana residents will be eligible to get vaccinated Monday and Governor Edwards is asking those newly eligible to be paitent. Brooke Thorington explains. 

Cut 1 (31) “ …I’m Brooke Thorington.”