Four nursing home residents are dead after seven nursing homes in Jefferson, Lafourche, Orleans, and Terrebonne Parishes were evacuated last Friday to a warehouse in Tangipahoa Parish located in Independence. Independence Police Chief Frank Edwards says the warehouse owned by Waterbury Companies was only equipped for 300 to 350 patients.
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According to The Advocate the seven nursing homes are owned by Bob Dean, who has not commented.

President Biden will travel to New Orleans today to see first-hand the Hurricane Ida damage. New Orleans Congressman Troy Carter will be among the contingent from Louisiana who will greet the President when he arrives…
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If you sustained wind damage from Hurricane Ida, the state’s insurance commissioner has some advice for you. Kevin Gallagher has more.
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According to the Louisiana Public Service Commission, 878-thousand customers are still without power. That’s 39-percent of the state’s utility customers.