Governor Edwards says there are two measures in the works in both chambers of Congress to fund disaster relief. Brooke Thorington has more from his DC trip.
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The Death toll has climbed to 15 among those hundreds of nursing home residents evacuated to an ill-equipped Tangipahoa Parish warehouse ahead of Hurricane Ida’s landfall late last month. The Louisiana Department of Health says at least five deaths were storm-related. Death causes for the other ten have not been confirmed.
Louisiana Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell is taking the state’s GOP congressmen to task. He said they voted earlier this week against a continuing resolution to keep the government running with a higher debt ceiling, even though the legislation included 28-billion-dollars in emergency relief for Louisiana and elsewhere.
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Hurricane Ida delivered another blow to the state’s seafood industry, which annually produces millions of pounds of fish, shrimp, crabs and oysters. Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser says Ida’s 150-mile per hour winds on the southeastern coast of Louisiana caused major damage to boats and docks
Nungesser says fishermen will need federal assistance in order to bounce back from this destructive hurricane.