7:30 LRN Newscast

Fox News reports New Orleans has assumed the top spot for the most homicides per capita of any city in America. Data collected up until September of last year shows the Crescent City has an average of 52 murders per 100-thousand residents. Metropolitan Crime Commission president Rafael Goyeneche …:
Cut 7 (12) “…de-emphasize public safety.”

Republican Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy says it is disingenuous of Democrats to rail on Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for sending two airline flights of illegals to Martha’s Vineyard when the Biden administration is guilty of the same thing on a grander scale…:
Cut 14 (08) “…like this isn’t happening.”
President Biden says Desantis is playing politics with human beings being used as props.

Louisiana ranks fifth in the nation for the rate of women murdered by men. That’s according to the Violence Policy Center’s 2020 data.
Cut 1 (31) “…I’m Whitney Thomas.”

A tropical wave heading towards the Caribbean continues to show signs of organization and it will likely become a tropical depression in the next couple of days. State Climatologist Barry Keim says this system is worth watching as long range models show it could enter the Gulf of Mexico…
cut 26 (08) “…it unfolds”