Kaplan Senator Jonathan Perry says he wants to set the record straight after WWL-TV and the Hayride wrongfully reported that he wants to regulate the Cajun Navy. Perry says he got calls and emails attacking not only him, but his family as well. He says if anyone disagrees with him, that’s fine, but he wants them to get the facts straight and leave his family out of it.

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Perry says all he wants to do is make sure that law enforcement doesn’t turn away members of the Cajun Navy when they come to help.

Forecasters are keeping a close eye on an area of low pressure in the Atlantic. Todd Kimberlain with the National Hurricane Center says there’s a high probability that Invest 99 could develop into Tropical Storm Hermine.

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Kimberlain says the system is moving towards the Bahamas.

A million pounds of food was lost in the recent flood when the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank took on four feet of water. President and CEO Mike Manning says other food banks from across the country have stepped up to donate during this tough time. He says right now, agencies from Tennessee and Texas are here to help.

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It’s estimated it will take more than one million dollars to clean their facility.

The City of Central is one of the hundreds of cities that were devastated by the Great Flood of 2016. Mayor Jr Shelton says even after losing everything, people are help one another with the cleanup. But he says residents are running on adrenaline, and he’s worried that will run out soon.

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Shelton says 9-thousand of the 11-thousand homes there were affected.