Senator John Kennedy traveled to southeast Louisiana Tuesday to see the damage firsthand and talk with residents in Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes. More from Dave Brannen.
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The state may have to consider postponing the October 9th primary election, which includes three legislative seats, a mayoral election in New Orleans, and two Constitutional amendments. Brooke Thorington has more.
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Ardoin issued a statement that a number of local election officials and civic groups have expressed support for rescheduling the October 9 and November 13 elections.
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The Louisiana Department of Health is taking action after the deaths of at least seven nursing home patients who were among several hundred evacuated to a Tangipahoa warehouse because of Hurricane Ida. More from Dave Brannen.
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The adverbs to describe the massive destruction left behind by Hurricane Ida are almost endless, Senator John Kennedy who visited Houma and Thibodaux on Tuesday called the damage “breathtaking”, coupled with a lot of “misery”.
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He says he’s thankful we didn’t see a greater loss of life as with Katrina and the less damage and death in New Orleans because the levees held.
Senator Kennedy says that as storm victims deal with short-term problems such as power outages and no internet, housing will be a long-term setback for many.
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Kennedy says the state’s congressional delegation is together with Governor Edwards on doing a stand-alone bill to provide supplemental disaster housing relief for south Louisiana and those in the northeast hit hard by Ida.
After meeting Tuesday with Ida storm victims in Houma and Thibodaux and helping deliver supplies to them Kennedy appeared ready to admonish President Biden if he didn’t deliver on his promise to do all he can to help victims of Ida.
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In the meantime, Kennedy is urging people to access the federal government’s Blue Roof program to get their storm-damaged roofs covered with tarps before future rains cause more problems.
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Many displaced Ida residents are waiting on the approval of DSNAP or the disaster supplemental nutrition assistance program. Department of Children and Family Services Secretary Marketa Garner Walters says for DSNAP to go into effect it is designed to unfold in a sequence due to lack of power and accessibility. The first stage is points of distribution sites for food.
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The second stage includes distributing household products from their various partners. Walters says it’s a thought-out process because you can’t send out DSNAP cards immediately following a hurricane and or disaster.
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Walters says they do expect to begin sending out DSNAP funds very soon and she highly encourages you to preregister. Louisiana is also unique and piloted the first virtual SNAP registration during the pandemic.
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To receive DSNAP information you can call 2-1-1 or text DSNAP to 898-211.
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Second Harvest Food Bank of Louisiana which serves the greater New Orleans area says they’ve been extremely busy post-Ida both with receiving donations and distributing food. Second Harvest Spokesperson Jay Vise says they are helping people in some of the most hurricane-impacted areas of southeast Louisiana.
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Vise says they’ve also seen donations and assistance come in from all over the US along with food donations from other food banks to help assist those in need from Hurricane Ida. For example donations from Feeding America Foodbanks in Texas, Florida, and middle Tennessee.
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All of the Feeding America Food Banks in the state have been extremely active with the pandemic and now with Ida response. Vise says they’ve been out to heavily impacted areas like LaPlace and Lafourche providing aid and they are only able to do so due to donations.
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The Louisiana Department of Health is taking formal action against seven nursing homes that the state alleges failed to properly evacuate hundreds of nursing home residents as Hurricane Ida approached. LDH executive counsel, Stephen Russo.
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And as such, Russo says the licenses of all seven facilities are being revoked and their Medicaid provider agreements have been terminated.
Hundreds of nursing home residents were evacuated to a warehouse facility in Tangipahoa Parish where conditions in the structure were eventually found by inspectors to have severely deteriorated. Russo says an initial attempt at inspecting the warehouse was rebuffed.
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Russo held back on litigating the case in the media, with the evacuation possibly linked to as many as seven patient deaths.
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La Tech is looking forward to Saturday’s home opener against Southeastern Louisiana after blowing a 20-point lead in the fourth quarter and losing to Mississippi State 35-34. Bulldogs quarterback Austin Kendall says the offense stalled after scoring a touchdown early in the fourth quarter
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Kendall says he wants to be more consistent on offense this week…
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LSU Coach Ed Orgeron said after Saturday’s loss to UCLA that he was taking the responsibility for the loss to Bruins. On Tuesday, he talked about the adjustments the coaches have made. LSU could not run the ball against UCLA. Orgeron says they are putting different type of run plays into the playbook
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Just like last season, LSU gave up big plays in the passing game as the Tigers had trouble covering the crossing routes that UCLA ran. Orgeron believes they’ll defend crossing routes better in the future
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Orgeron’s defense will go up against Cody Orgeron. Coach O”s son is the starting quarterback for the Cowboys. Ed Orgeron on facing his son…
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Cody Orgeron threw for a career-high 361 yards in a season-opening loss to West Florida last