The Thanksgiving holiday travel crunch is upon us with experts predicting more than 53 million people will hit the air, roads and waterways to share dinner with others.
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That’s Triple-A’s Don Redman who says the travel volume predicted is within five percent of 2019 pre-pandemic levels. He says air travel is up 80 percent over last year to a volume of just over four million passengers.

The Louisiana Workforce Commission says the state added 34-thousand jobs from September to October as the Bayou State began to recover from Hurricane Ida. L-W-C Secretary Ava Cates says this also shows the state’s workforce is bouncing back from the pandemic too, but there are still a lot of vacant jobs…
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State Republican lawmakers are coming out against a Health Department proposal to require COVID shots for kids to attend schools. More from Kevin Gallagher…:
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The Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness says 13-hundred travel trailers have been deployed to the parishes hardest hit by Hurricane Ida. Families are occupying 820 of those units, including 284 in Terrebonne. Lafourche and Jefferson parishes have a total of 265 units occupied.