9:30 LRN Newscast May 18

Eleven Office of Motor Vehicle locations reopen today to provide limited services, such as renewing a driver’s license or I-D cards, ordering a duplicate title, renewing vehicle registrations and title transfers. Casinos can also reopen today, but maximum capacity can not exceed 25-percent.

Movie theaters can reopen under Phase One guidelines, but most remain closed. Brooke Thorington explains.
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Two of the bigger bills in the legislative session are scheduled to be debated in the Senate today. One of the bills seeks to reduce auto insurance rates by 10-percent by making changes to our legal system and the other would end the effort by parishes to sue oil companies for damages to the coast. Political analyst Bernie Pinsonat says the coastal land loss lawsuit legislation had strong GOP support, but local leaders are pushing coastal Republicans away from the bill…
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The Senate meets at 2 PM today.

Louisiana pediatricians are seeing cases of Pediatric Multi-system Inflammatory Syndrome, which is connected to COVID-19. Ochsner Lafayette Pediatric Cardiologist Doctor Katherine Lindle says sometimes it takes weeks for symptoms to show…
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The symptoms include abdominal pain, diarrhea, sore throat, breathing issues, and rahses.