The two bodies recovered from the wreckage of a plane that went down near Hackberry Tuesday are believed to be that of flight instructor Rock Palermo and his student Don Clements. Palermo, an attorney, was also the pilot for the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office. Sheriff Tony Mancuso was visibly emotional about the loss of Palermo.
The investigation is being handled by the FAA and the NTSB.
The LSU Ag Center says the state is looking at a record sugar cane harvest this year. Sugar cane specialist Kenneth Gravois says sugar was planted on 496-thousand acres in 2020 and the harvest which started in September produced about 83-hundred pounds per acre…
Gravois says even a rough hurricane season could not slow down a record-breaking sugar cane harvest.
The CDC is now mandating that all public transit systems require riders to mask up. Senator Bill Cassidy says this is a requirement most transit systems already have, and there’s a real question as to whether the CDC has the power to levy penalties against systems that refuse.
Cassidy says masking up while on public transit is a good plan and data shows the virus spreads much easier in confined indoor spaces.
The state reports 2,046 new COVID-19 cases and 53 fatalities today. And 1,386 are hospitalized in the state with COVID. And close to 488-thousand vaccine doses have been administered an increase of 90 thousand since last Thursday.