1:30 LRN Newscast Aug 29

The National Hurricane Center is monitoring four areas for possible development and State Climatologist Barry Keim says the system in the central Atlantic is one to be mindful of as far as Louisiana is concerned. The season was forecasted to be above average but so far there have only been three named storms.

Cut 10 (10) “..scare yet.” 

Four people drowned in the Sabine River Friday night. Beauregard Parish Sheriff Mark Herford says when a four-year boy was in distress three men tried to save him, but they also drowned.  According to a GoFundMe account, child has been identified as Bentley Lane Fountain. Herford says the three adults were Troy McCollough of the Junction community, Kelly Bailey of Hornbeck, and Austin Scott of DeRidder.

Cut 7 (07) “…that way.” 

Today is the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Ida and St John the Baptist Parish was among the hardest hit. More than half a dozen insurance companies have left Louisiana since Ida and Parish President Jacklyn Hotard the parish looks much better this year than it did a year ago.

Cut 5  (10) “..entire region.”

LSU football coach Brian Kelly has decided on a starting quarterback for Sunday’s season opener against Florida State, but he’s not announcing who it is publicly. Kelly says he does not want the Seminoles to have that information….

Cut 12 (08) “…announce it.”  

Kick-off Sunday is at 6:30 in the Superdome and the Tigers will play Southern in Death Valley on the 10th.