Tropical Storm Laura is now expected to become a major hurricane and make landfall along the Louisiana-Texas border early Thursday morning. Governor John Bel Edwards says while Tropical Storm Marco weakened, there’s no indication that will happen with Laura…
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Laura is expected to bring major impacts to southwest Louisiana. Calcasieu Emergency Preparedness director Dick Gremillion says it’s not the winds that have them most concerned…
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Louisiana’s entire coastline is under a storm surge watch. Laura is currently a tropical storm as it has moved past Cuba and will grow into a hurricane today and the National Hurricane Center calls for Laura to be a Category Three storm when it makes landfall early Thursday morning.

LSU students are set to begin classes today under a New Normal. Matt Doyle has the story.
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The state reported 622 new cases of COVID-19 yesterday and 18 new deaths. Also, the positivity rate on COVID-19 tests coming back is down to eight percent, which is an improvement.