7:30 LRN Newscast August 4

Education leaders and State Police will host the state’s first-ever School Safety Summit in Baton Rouge today. Education superintendent Dr. Cade Brumley says this is about keeping kids safe while at school…:
Cut 7 (08) “…for all of us.”
Brumley says they are expecting over 800 people at the summit. That includes law enforcement, government agencies and mental health providers.

The dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico, which is an area of low-oxygen where sea life can’t live, is less than half the size of last year at 3,275 square miles. But LSU marine ecologist Nancy Rabalais says the goal is to get the dead zone to less than 19-hundred square miles by 2035…
cut 11 (09) “…right now”

NOAA will give an update this morning on the current Atlantic Hurricane Season and if their earlier predictions remain on track…
Cut 1 (32) “…I’m Brooke Thorington.”

The Louisiana Department of Health, instead of the Department of Agriculture is now regulating the state’s medical marijuana program. Houma Representative Tanner Magee says LDH has more labs which should benefit the patient….
Cut 4 (07) “…a lot of delays.”