President Barack Obama’s approval rating is over 60-percent nationally, according to a CBS poll. Halen Doughty has more on what the numbers look like in Louisiana…
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2016 was the warmest recorded year on Earth, according to the World Meteorological Organization. Michelle Southern has more…
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A new poll from CBS finds President Barack Obama’s approval rating is over 60-percent nationally. Local pollster Bernie Pinsonat says while that might be the case nationwide, it’s certainly not true in Louisiana. He says Mr. Obama has been unpopular in the Bayou State throughout his entire term. He says the high favorability rating nationally is likely, because of large states like New York, Illinois and California.
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Mr. Obama is still leaving office with the third highest approval rating since 1981. Pinsonat says it’s not the president himself voters disapprove of, it’s his policies.
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Pinsonat says we’ll see just how much Republicans disapprove of his policies when a decision comes down about whether or not to repeal Obamacare. He says although many Americans are not in favor of Mr. Obama’s policies, for the most part, they like him as a person.
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Secretary of State Tom Schedler is asking President-elect Donald Trump to undo President Obama’s designation that all 50 states’ election systems to be considered “critical infrastructure.” Schelder says it’s unclear why a critical classification is necessary, when there was no credible evidence of hacking discovered in any state during the November 2016 election…
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Dams, nuclear reactors, and government facilities are also included in critical infrastructure. Schedler says the federal government claims considering election systems as critical infrastructure would allow them to work with federal homeland security officials. But he says his office can already do this without this designation….
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security says the designation does not mean a federal takeover, regulation, oversight or intrusion concerning elections in this country. But Schedler says it’s extremely difficult to manipulate the voting process, because each state uses a different method.
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Shreveport Police say an 11-year-old has been arrested for armed robbery. Corporal Marcus Hines says surveillance video shows the juvenile they have in custody pulled a gun on a woman at an ATM around 10 p.m. Saturday and made off with a small amount of cash.
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Hines says it’s very saddening that someone this young would commit a crime like this. Surveillance footage of the incident was released to the public and he says apparently the young boy’s family saw the video, which led to his arrest.
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Hines says we have to address the underlying problem in situations like this and find out why someone so young would think to rob someone. He says unfortunately, seeing children commit crimes like armed robbery isn’t as rare as you might think.
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The World Meteorological Organization announced 2016 was officially the warmest on Earth since 1880, when record keeping began. State Climatologist Barry Keim says we’ve gone three straight years for breaking the warmest year on record. He says there is clearly a pattern of increasing temperatures.
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Keim says 2016 was Louisiana’s third warmest year on record. The warmest was in 1921. He says the state’s biggest concern with these increased temperatures worldwide is melting glaciers…
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Keim says the average temperature in Louisiana for 2016 was 68.7 degrees. And he says 2017 is already off to an extremely warm start.
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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 of child pornography and exploitation…
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Wisher says Landry was sworn in last year, the A-G’s office has made or assisted in over 100 child exploitation arrests….
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