Governor John Bel Edwards has announced the state’s plan for getting flood victims out of shelters as quickly as possible. Jeff Palermo has more…

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The Governor and his family are still displaced after the Governor’s Mansion took on four feet of water in the basement. Edwards said on his monthly call in radio show today that this was the first time the mansion has ever flooded. He added that it sustained more damage than any other state building.

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

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Perry says he wants to make sure that law enforcement don’t turn away the Cajun Navy when they come to help.

Forecasters are monitoring an area of low pressure in the Atlantic, called Invest 99. Todd Kimberlain with the National Hurricane Center says there’s a high probability that this disturbance could become a tropical storm.

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Kimberlain says Invest 99 is moving towards the Bahamas.