A new partnership aims to expand career opportunities in Louisiana’s thriving maritime industry. David Grubb has more.
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The state adds COVID reinfections to the dashboard and the Omicron variant has caused them to grow considerably. Brooke Thorington explains.
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Today’s cold temperatures are just the beginning of a frigid weekend in Louisiana. State climatologist Barry Keim says high temperatures will only be in the 40s today and tomorrow
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Keim says hard freeze and freeze warnings are posted for Louisiana beginning tonight and lasting into tomorrow morning…
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Keim says it will begin to warm up on Sunday, but until then take the usual precautions when it gets this cold…
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A new partnership between the Crescent River Port Pilots and the New Orleans-Baton Rouge Steamship Pilots Associations aims to increase awareness of career opportunities in the state’s maritime industry for African-Americans and other minorities. Captain Roy Vance believes the industry has flown under the radar for too long.
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Vance also said that these jobs are not limited to on-ship positions. People from any number of backgrounds have the opportunity to find a job suited to their skills.
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The newly formed alliance will be making an aggressive effort to increase awareness and most importantly, fill those jobs.
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The state health department is now reporting reinfections on its COVID dashboard. There are more than 49-thousand in Louisiana now and almost 14-hundred were added Friday. State Health Officer Dr. Joe Kanter says the state is following the CDC’s definition.
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Reinfections are also included in the total case count which surpassed one million this week since the pandemic began. Kanter says they’ve been tracking reinfections since they started but Omicron caused reinfections to surge.
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Kanter says studies show Omicron evades the protection of just the two-dose mRNA vaccines, but once you are boosted it brings you to the level of protection you had with Delta.
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Boosters are advised for ages 12 and up, at least five months after the second dose of either the Pfizer of Moderna vaccines and at least two months after a Johnson and Johnson vaccine.
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Temperatures will get down to the low-to-mid 20s in southeast Louisiana this weekend where strawberries are produced. But Tangipahoa Parish Associate Extension Agent Mary Helen Ferguson says producers are prepared for below-freezing temps…
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Before this weekend, Louisiana was experiencing a mild winter, which Ferguson says has allowed some strawberry growers to begin picking berries…
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The mild winter has allowed for boil-worthy crawfish in January. But Louisiana Agriculture Commissioner Mike Strain says this weekend’s cold weather will make it difficult for crawfish farmers to catch mudbugs and they don’t grow when it’s this cold…
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Strain says at least high temperatures are getting into the 40s today and Saturday, so this arctic blast is just a hiccup for what should be a great crawfish season…
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