A new federal eviction moratorium takes effect today and lasts until 2021. Matt Doyle has the story.
At least least 22 deaths in Louisiana have been attributed to Hurricane Laura according to the Louisiana Department of Health. On Friday, LDH reported that a 41-year-old man and a 47-year-old man died due to heat-related illnesses while removing debris in Vernon Parish. Nine of the 22 deaths so far have been from carbon monoxide poisoning.
Governor John Bel Edwards says when it comes to Laura evacuees the state still doesn’t have an exact number of people from Louisiana who fled to Texas and are being sheltered by the State of Texas, but he did say the number is likely in the thousands and mostly in Houston or Beaumont. Edwards says they’re being moved…
LHSAA executive director Eddie Bonine tells the House Education Committee there is a plan is in place that would see high school football starting on time. And Bonine says that in the event enough players are told to quarantine or isolate to the point where they do not have an adequate roster to compete, the inability to play a game will not be counted against them as a forfeit.