The average price for a gallon of regular gas in Louisiana today is $3.39. But according to Triple-A, it’s a good news bad news scenario. Brooke Thorington explains.
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Experts say we’ve entered a new era in political ads, thanks to an ad running in the Shreveport mayor’s race…and it may have implications far beyond one part of the state. Marsanne Golsby has more.
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The first cold snap of the season is here. State Climatologist Barry Keim predicts the northern half of the state will see the season’s first freeze tomorrow morning
Forecasters expect lows tonight in the thirties across almost everywhere except New Orleans and the coast. But Keim says the first cold snaps are almost always followed by much warmer weather.
Right now Keim’s biggest concern is the ongoing drought. Some parts of the state had rain last week but he says it wasn’t enough to really help.
He says the first chance for some wet weather next week.
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Gas prices took a slight drop along with the temps in Louisiana. Don Redman with Triple-A Louisiana says the average price for a gallon of regular gas in the Bayou State today is $3.39.
Redman says it doesn’t appear as if prices will get that high because now prices are slowly retreating.
He says however it’s good news, bad news situation. Redman says prices are going down due to a drop in crude oil prices. He says it’s dropped to $82 a barrel which is about $10 down from a couple of weeks ago.
As for gas prices for the holiday travel season, because surveys indicate more people plan to cut back on their travel budget, Redman says the futures markets are predicting lower gas prices.
A week ago a regular gallon of gas in Louisiana was $3.36 a gallon, a month ago it was $3.15, and a year ago it was $3.07.
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A new television ad in the Shreveport mayoral race could start a new trend in campaign ads in Louisiana. It’s produced by the People over Politics PAC and the main character in the 30-second commercial is a person who looks and sounds like Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins, who is called into the principal’s office
But the person who sounds and looks like Perkins is not actually the mayor. Deep fake artificial intelligence technology helped create a character that looks just like Perkins. Perkins is in a tough race for re-election. Alford says the ad is funded by an anti-Perkins PAC.
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Alford says the PAC is called People Over Politics, and it is funded by a New Orleans developer named Anthony Marullo the Third. Alford says Marullo bought real estate in Shreveport but became disgruntled with the city leadership so paid for the ads.
Alford believes this is the first time that such technology has been used in a political ad in Louisiana. But with next year’s statewide races looming, he believes its impact will echo far outside of northwest Louisiana.
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A disclaimer briefly appears in the corner of the ad saying the image is not actually Perkins. But Alford says there’s nothing to guarantee future ads will have such disclaimers.
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Two brothers from Baton Rouge will face each other in the National League Championship Series which gets underway tonight in San Diego. Former LSU baseball players Austin and Aaron Nola are trying to get to the World Series for the first time in their careers. Their former coach at LSU, Paul Mainieri, is cheering them on
Austin Nola is the starting catcher for the Padres, who upset the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League Division Series. Austin Nola was the starting shortstop on LSU’s 2009 national championship team and Mainieri calls him a great human being
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Aaron Nola has helped the Phillies reach the N-L-C-S for the first time since 2010. The right-hander is one of the better pitchers in the National League and Mainieri remembers how consistent he was at LSU