14:30 LRN Newscast January 18th

A CBS poll finds President Barack Obama is leaving office with an approval rating of 62-percent, which is the third highest approval rating for an outgoing President since 1981. Local pollster Bernie Pinsonat says many people like Mr. Obama, but it’s his policies that has many voters unhappy…
cut 4 (10) “…very unpopular”

A federal climate report finds 2016 was the warmest on Earth since 1880, when record keeping began. State Climatologist Barry Keim says that’s the third straight year experts have determined it’s the warmest year on record…
cut 12 (09) “Pacific Ocean”
Keim says 2016 was Louisiana’s third warmest year on record.

Shreveport police have arrested an 11-year-old for the armed robbery of a woman at an ATM machine. Corporal Marcus Hines says unforunately, seeing children commit crimes like armed robbery isn’t as rare as you think…
cut 11 (09) “…into automobiles”
Hines says they believe it was the boy’s family that told him to surrender to authorities after surveillance video of the robbery went public.

Attorney General Jeff Landry’s office announces the arrest of six men on over 200 counts of child pornography and exploitation. The alleged perpetrators range from age 18 to 73. A-G spokesperson Ruth Wisher says the men were booked on over 200 counts…
cut 15 (11) “…sexually abused”
Wisher says since Landry was sworn in last year, the A-G’s office has made or assisted in over 100 child exploitation arrests.