NOAA warns Louisiana residents to prepare for an active hurricane season this year with 13 to 19 named storms, six to ten hurricanes, and three to six major hurricanes. NOAA’s lead hurricane season forecaster Doctor Gerry Bell says a few factors play into this forecast…
Cut 6 (13) “ …African monsoons.”
Bell says they do not anticipate an El Nino forming, which can suppress hurricane activity.
Louisiana has surpassed 25-hundred COVID-19 deaths with potential for the death rate to spike upwards in the next few weeks due to clusters forming in state nursing homes. 67-percent of the people listed as a COVID-19 death were over the age of 70. LSU Infectious Diseases expert Doctor Catherine O’ Neal…
House Appropriations Republicans add an amendment to the budget for next fiscal year mandating no funding for contact tracing programs that require the public the participate. Bossier City Representative Raymond Crews…
A Louisiana Department of Health spokesperson told lawmakers they have no plans to arrest or penalize infected people who refuse to answer questions about who they have been in contact with.
There are less than two weeks left in the session and lawmakers are reportedly having difficulty securing the two thirds veto proof majority vote needed in the house for tort reform aimed at lowering auto insurance rates to pass. Governor Edwards says if Republicans are willing to compromise a deal can be reached…