Four Louisiana Mayors sign a letter demanding Congressional action on mandatory nationwide background checks for gun purchases. Matt Doyle spoke with one of the signees…
The Mayor Mayo says he plans on writing a personal letter to US Senator Bill Cassidy urging him to support the federal bill.
Opponents of the legislation say it’s an infringement on 2nd amendment rights and would do little to actually curb gun violence, but Mayo says it would at least help cut down on mass shooting events.
A licensed medical marijuana physician is arrested in Ouachita Parish by State Police. Dr. Benjamin Stage faces five counts of illegally prescribing controlled dangerous substances to a patient that was not one of his own. Trooper Michael Reichardt.
Cut 12 (09) “…arrest him then.”
NOAA is now predicting five to nine hurricanes with two to four possibly becoming major storms. NOAA lead hurricane season forecaster Gerry Bell says climate change is having an impact on the production of hurricanes…
Cut 5 (09) “…fewer stronger storms.”
Bell says as the season moves into August, the way that storms begin to form becomes more reliant on activity off of the African coast.