In his first TV campaign ad, Democrat Luke Mixon addresses the abortion issue. Brooke Thorington has more.
Cut 1 (33) “…I’m Brooke Thorington.”

Lucille Fremin Babineaux, the mother of former Governor Kathleen Blanco has died at the age of 102. Babineaux was born in 1919 in New Iberia and had seven children of her own. She was the matriarch of a family of 105 and was with her daughter Kathleen Blanco every day when she got sick and died in 2019.

The National Hurricane Center is monitoring a tropical wave that’s moving towards the Caribbean and a tropical depression is likely to form within the next few days. State Climatologist Barry Keim says it’s very early, but forecast models show this potential storm getting into the Gulf of Mexico…
cut 9 (09) “…stout storm”
Keim says it’s too soon to panic, but not too soon to prepare.

Senator Bill Cassidy says a new report shows the veteran suicide rate fell nearly 10-percent from 2018 to 2020. Cassidy says veteran suicide is still too high, but they are making progress. Cassidy says the Senate recently passed his Solid Start Act strengthens a V-A program that regularly contacts new veterans…
cut 12 (08) “….civilian life”
Cassidy says most suicices among veterans occurs within six months after getting out fo the service.