230 PM LRN News

The state health department reports a child under the age of one has died from COVID-19. Jeff Palermo has the story…

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Physician in Chief at Children’s Hospital New Orleans Dr. Mark Kline says Pfizer will likely ask for vaccine approval for kids five and older in October…

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President of the Louisiana Restaurant Association Stan Harris says 62 percent of state restaurants that applied for Restaurant Revitalization Fund grants did not receive any money. Harris says this federal failure has many owners strongly considering closing up shop…

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Harris says originally restaurants asked Congress for $120 billion but only received $28.6-billion. Louisiana requested a billion of that but only 393 million ultimately was handed out.

A tropical disturbance in the south-central Caribbean has an 80 percent chance of developing over the next five days. The system is expected to move towards the Yucatan peninsula and enter the Gulf of Mexico Saturday night. The models are all over the place right now, showing landfall anywhere from Louisiana to the Texas/Mexico border sometime Monday or Tuesday.