Two of our state’s area codes will soon have to dial all ten digits when calling out – even for local calls. Paloma Perez is with the F.C.C. and says the change is to accommodate a much-needed national 3-digit suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline. That number will be 9-8-8. She says within the area codes 504 And 337, there are numbers that begin with those three digits…:
Cut 10 (12) “…wasn’t a switch-up.”
Beginning on October 24th, everyone in the 504 and 337 area code must dial the whole 10-digit number.

Time is running out to order a FEMA-paid-for Blue Roof if your home suffered damage in one of the 25 parishes declared a disaster area as the result of Hurricane Ida.
cut 4 (06) “…midnight central time”
Lt. Colonel Paul Stambaugh of the Army Corps of Engineers says the website address is b-l-u-roof-dot-us.

A group of U-S health advisers has recommended to the F-D-A that older Americans and those at risk of severe infection from COVID should get a half-dose Moderna vaccine if they received their first two Moderna shots over six months ago. Doctor Lucio Miele with LSU Health New Orleans says it’s a good idea….
cut 15 (07) “…. a long time ago”
Today, the same panel will recommend whether certain individuals who received the one-shot Johnson and Johnson vaccine should also get a booster.

AAA research has found that vehicles equipped with lane-keeping assistance departed their lane 69-percent of the time when it was raining and test vehicles with automatic emergency braking collided with a stopped vehicle 33-percent of the time in the rain. AAA spokesperson Don Redman says their research also found automatic braking systems have difficulty seeing pedestrians at lower speeds…
cut 9 (10) “….engaged driver”