The Louisiana Department of Health is reminding the public to catch up on the routine vaccinations that may have gone by the wayside due to the shelter in place order and closure of many medical offices.  State immunization director Dr. Frank Welch says skipping vaccines can have disastrous consequences in the future.

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State and federal data show a sharp drop in vaccine orders from January through April.

As protestors nationwide demand changes in policing policy, Baton Rouge Mayor Sharon Weston Broome says the city’s police union has been an obstruction to reform within the department. Broome says they need greater flexibility to identify and remove bad cops from the department, and the union makes that difficult to do.

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The LSU football team will have to wait one more day before starting voluntary workouts. Senior associate athletic trainer Shelly Mullenix says they are not testing players daily for coronavirus, but they are screening for the disease. She says there are temperature checks when they enter the football operations building, plus coaches and players will answer a CDC questionnaire about their health

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The 2020 dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico is projected to be four times larger this year than what a task force established in 2001. LSU Marine Science Professor Nancy Rabalais estimates this year’s 77-hundred square mile dead zone is roughly the size of New Hampshire.Rabalais says despite recognizing the dead zone issue, the federal government has not been able to tackle the problem.

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A number of cities are taking up policing policy changes in the wake of massive nationwide George Floyd protests. One of the proposed changes involves taking funding away from police departments and using the cash to fund social services like education. Baton Rouge Mayor Sharon Weston Broome says she doesn’t support that policy, and instead told Talk Louisiana she’s concerned about police unions and their efforts to protect bad apples in the force…

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The LSU football team will start voluntary summer workouts tomorrow. Senior associate athletic trainer Shelly Mullenix says when players arrived on campus last week they were given an antibody test…

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The dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico this year is expected to hit nearly 77-hundred square miles according to LSU Marine Science Professor Nancy Rabalais who says that’s nearly the size of New Hampshire…

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The dead zone stretches along the bottom of the continental shelf along Texas and Louisiana and forms due to fertilizer filtering downstream from the Midwest.

The Louisiana Department of Health is reminding the public to catch up on the routine vaccinations that went by the wayside due to coronavirus restrictions.  State immunization director Dr. Frank Welch says medical facilities are opened again, it’s time to get back on track.

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The Louisiana Department of Health is reminding the public to catch up on the routine vaccinations that may have gone by the wayside due to the shelter in place order and closure of many medical offices.  For those that may be uneasy about entering a doctor’s office, state immunization director Dr. Frank Welch says most facilities have changed up the experience with spread mitigation efforts.

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The 2020 dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico is projected to be four times larger this year than what a task force established in 2001. Fertilizer from Midwest agriculture washes down the Mississippi River, exiting at the mouth forming an area of low oxygen and high nitrogen. LSU Marine Science Professor Nancy Rabalais says the nitrogen loads have remained steady since 1980…

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The LSU football team begins summer workouts tomorrow. Jeff Palermo has more on the national champs’ COVID-19 mitigation efforts…

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ULM is investigating racially insensitive social media posts that were allegedly made by two of their faculty members. According to the Monroe News Star assistant nursing professor, Mary Holmes referred to former President Barack Obama as a monkey and biology instructor Dennis Bell used a racial slur on his Facebook page. ULM says it condemns the stunningly bigoted and racist language in social media posts by select faculty members.

The state is reporting nearly 34,000 of the 43,000 people who have tested positive for COVID-19 in Louisiana have recovered. Along with those figures the Department of Health also announced 6 new COVID deaths, bringing the total number of fatalities up to 2,831, along with 234 new positive cases.

After a sharp decline in vaccinations, state health officials urge residents to get back on track with preventative healthcare. 

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Baton Rouge Mayor Sharon Weston Broome weighed in on the nationwide calls for policing policy changes this morning on Talk Louisiana, saying one major obstacle to reform efforts are the police unions. Broome says cops with traceable records of alarming behavior are often the ones victimizing their communities, and the unions can make it difficult to fire those bad apples…

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Broome has previously expressed frustration with the union’s resistance to implementing post-Alton Sterling police reforms.

The 2020 Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone is estimated to span 77-hundred miles this year, the seventh largest on record. LSU Marine Science Professor Nancy Rabalais says the problem has gotten worse in recent years due to heavy rains in the Midwest.

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The Louisiana Department of Health is reminding the public to catch up on the routine vaccinations that may have gone by the wayside due to the shelter in place order and closure of many medical offices.  State immunization director Dr. Frank Welch says skipping vaccines can have disastrous consequences in the future.

Cut 4 (09)_ “…something like that.”

State and federal data show a sharp drop in vaccine orders from January through April.

As protestors nationwide demand changes in policing policy, Baton Rouge Mayor Sharon Weston Broome says the city’s police union has been an obstruction to reform within the department. Broome says they need greater flexibility to identify and remove bad cops from the department, and the union makes that difficult to do.

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The 2020 dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico is projected to be four times larger this year than the Hypoxia Action Plan goal established 19 years ago called for. LSU Marine Science Professor Nancy Rabalias says this year’s 7,769 square mile dead zone is roughly the size of New Hampshire.

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The dead zone stretches along the bottom of the continental shelf along Texas and Louisiana.

The state reports 234 new COVID-19 cases today, bringing the state’s total tally to 43,050. In the weekly update, nearly 34,000 of those cases are presumed to have recovered. Total fatalities: 2,831, up 6. Hospitalizations: 582, up 7. Ventilator usage: 71, down 3.

As protestors nationwide demand changes in policing policy Baton Rouge Mayor Sharon Weston Broome says the city’s police union has been an obstruction to reform within the department. Broome told Talk Louisiana that the union’s problem is that it protects bad apples…

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The Minneapolis City Council announced veto-proof support for moving ahead with dismantling the Minneapolis Police Department. Broome says they, as of now, have no plans of pursuing similar policy.

State immunization director Dr. Frank Welch says now that the stay at home order is over its time for you to go back to your doctor’s office and get your vaccinations.

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Disaster food stamp assistance will not be activated for Cristobal as the state appears to have been let off pretty easy. That being said the Department of Children and Family Services is asking the public to pre-register for D-SNAP should we face a more damaging system later in the season. DCFS Secretary Marketa Garner Walters says D-SNAP helps people who have lost food as a result of a disaster.

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Walters says go to www.dcfs.la.gov/dsnap to register.

It’s the first day on the new job for Louisiana’s new Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley who will oversee public schools following the departure of John White. The 39-year-old grew up in Sabine Parish and says this is the opportunity of a lifetime.

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The author of the tort reform bill that was passed in the regular session says they’ll have to fix an unintended error in the legislation during the current special session….
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Louisiana reported eleven more COVID-19 deaths yesterday to bring the statewide total to 2,825. The number of cases also went up by 330 to 42,816. But hospitalizations and patients needing ventilators continues to decline. The number of COVID-19 patients in the hospital is down to 575, 74 of them are on ventilators.

After making landfall near Grand Isle yesterday, Cristobal is now a tropical depression in northeast Louisiana. Cristobal brought street flooding, high winds and scattered power outages to southeast Louisiana. State Climatologist Barry Keim says it made a little history, as its the second earliest named storm to make landfall in Louisiana…
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Cristobal will not result in the need for disaster food stamps, but the Secretary for the Department of Children and Family Services, Marketa Garner Walters, says it’s still a good idea to pre-register, so you ready to receive them after a storm causes significant damage…
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Go to D-C-F-S-dot-la-dot-gov, backslahs d-snap to register.

It’s the first day on the job for Cade Brumley, Louisiana’s new superintendent of education. Brumley says his goal is to produce more college-ready graduates and also improve the accessibility of pre-k education…
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Brumley says the most immediate challenge is the upcoming school year as local school districts look to bring students back to the classroom.

The former director of the Loyola University school of mass communication in New Orleans, Sonya Duhe, no longer has a job at Arizona State because A-S-U learned of allegations made against Duhe involving racism and insensitivity towards students. Duhe was set to officially take the job at Arizona State July first. She was hired on March sixth. Duhe spent a decade at Loyola University.

The center of Tropical Storm Cristobal will move over northeast Louisiana this morning bringing more rain to the Bayou State. Some roads were flooded in southeast Louisiana as a result of storm surge. State Climatologist Barry Keim says dry air from the west helped create a lopsided tropical storm that didn’t produce a huge impact in Louisiana…
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Disaster food stamps will not be needed for this storm event, but the Department of Children and Family Services Secretary Marketa Garner Walkers is encouraging low to moderate-income households to register for disaster food stamps when there is a significant weather event…
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To register go to D-C-F-S-dot-la-dot-gov-backslash d-snap.