Senator Bill Cassidy recounted the story of how he got COVID, calling it a warning that transmission in tight spaces is still possible even if everyone is masked up. Matt Doyle has more.
Cut 1 (31) “ …I’m Matt Doyle.”
_______________________________________
The Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office has made one arrest as a result of an investigation that the Boy Scouts asked the law enforcement agency to conduct. Jeff Palermo has the story…
_____________________________
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…
Gravois expects over 500-thousand acres of sugar cane planted in 2021 as more sugar cane will be planted in the northern and western parts of the cane-growing region. He says the 2021 crop is already off to a great start thanks to a mild winter..
___________________________________________________
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 plane, a single-engine Cessna 182 four-seater, crashed on a small island between Hackberry and Big Lake, near Pete Seay Circle just before six o’clock Tuesday night. Calcasieu Parish District Attorney Stephen Dwight says Palermo was well respected in the community.
Mancuso expressed condolences to the families of both crash victims. He also personally thanked Palermo’s family for sharing him with the department over the years.
The investigation is being handled by the FAA and the NTSB.
_____________________
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.
Cassidy recounted his own experience getting COVID. He says he picked it up from an aide who was driving him from New Orleans to Baton Rouge despite both him and the aide being masked…
_______________________________________________
State Police say a three-year-old child who was not properly restrained was killed in a wreck last night involving an 18-wheeler in Calcasieu Parish. Trooper Derek Senegal says the child was a passenger in a vehicle driven by 41-year-old Blaine Keith Lecompte. Senegal says they suspect Lecompte was impaired
Cut 12 (10) “vehicular homicide”
Senegal says toxicology samples were obtained from Lecompte to see if he was impaired when the crash occurred on Interstate 10 near Vinton.
The driver of the 18-wheeler was properly restrained and uninjured. Lecompte and another juvenile passenger in his Jeep were properly restrained and sustained minor to moderate injuries. But Lecompte faces numerous charges