There’s the potential for severe weather tonight and tomorrow morning. Jeff Palermo has more…
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Senator Bill Cassidy found himself on the defensive after the health secretary he helped confirm went back on his word about spreading misinformation regarding any connection between vaccines and autism. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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There’s the potential for severe weather tonight into tomorrow morning for north and central Louisiana. State Climatologist Jay Grymes says the primary threats are damaging winds, large hail and the possibility of tornadoes…
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Three parishes are under a tornado watch until 7 PM tonight, DeSoto, Red River and Sabine. Grymes says more watches and warnings are possible as the day goes on…
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Grymes says one to three inches of rain is possible for north and central Louisiana…
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Grymes says the cold front that will begin to move to through the state tonight is the first of two cold fronts to hit the state this week. The second one will bring us cooler temperatures for Thanksgiving.
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Senator Bill Cassidy finds himself on the defensive after the CDC changes its website to say that the claim of vaccines not causing autism is not based on evidence. Back in January, Cassidy, who’s a medical doctor by trade, voted to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health Secretary after Kennedy assured him that he would not push any conspiracies on connections between vaccines and autism. Jake Tapper confronted Cassidy about that on CNN’s “State of the Union” yesterday, saying that Kennedy lied to him during that confirmation hearing.
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Despite the CDC’s website now saying that scientific studies have not ruled out the possibility that vaccines contribute to the development of autism, Cassidy says that is not true.
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It was Cassidy’s vote in the Senate Finance Committee that was the deciding vote to advance Kennedy’s nomination to the full Senate, paving the way for his confirmation. Tapper asked Cassidy why he would not criticize Kennedy by name, especially after a member of his own family took him to task for slashing vaccine research funding after revealing that she was diagnosed with terminal cancer and had one year to live.
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Registration for the next State Police’s cadet class is now open. The deadline to register for Cadet Class 109 is January 6th. Captain Johnnie Brown says after that date, they will select the best candidates from those who registered, and there is no set number.
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Captain Brown says it will take several months to select the class, and the class will take up almost the entire second half of next year, all of which is paid.
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Brown says the class takes that long because there’s a lot to cover.
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Candidates must be at least 21 years old and have either two years experience as a police officer, 60 college credit hours, or any two-year combination of those two. They can also qualify with three years of military service.
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Congresswoman Julia Letlow is working with Washington Democrat Kim Shrier on a bipartisan maternal support bill. Letlow says a key component of the Newborns Essentials Support Toolkit, or NEST, Act is giving new mothers access to newborn supply kits.
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Letlow says the foundation for providing the supply kits to new mothers is already in place.
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Letlow says the NEST Act would also provide postpartum mental health resources in areas of need.
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