LRN Newscast 5:30

Hurricane Ida delivered a massive blow to southeast Louisiana with damaging winds, a powerful storm surge, and several inches of rain. Kevin Gallagher has more…
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Over 850-thousand people are without power Monday morning. Entergy spokesperson David Freese says it will take weeks to get the power on for some…
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Hurricane Ida is now a tropical storm in southwestern Mississippi but it left a path of destruction through southeast Louisiana. Many people who decided to ride out the storm are now waiting on help. There are several residents reportedly trapped in LaPlace. Hundreds of people are also stranded in lower in Jefferson Parish as a result of the overtopping of levees.

But the levees that failed during Hurricane Katrina and flooded the city of New Orleans, withstood Ida’s power. Army Corps of Engineers spokesperson Matt Roe says 14-point-5 billion dollars were spent to protect the city from a 100-year level of storm surge, which is a surge that has a one percent chance of happening…
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