06:30 Newscast October 16, 2015

The four major candidates for governor squared off in the final televised debate before the October 24th primary and for most of the 60 minutes the four men stuck to discussing issues and how they would solve problems in the state. But Republican Scott Angelle did take one shot at the GOP front runner in the race David Vitter.

cut 16 (11) “of America”

Tomorrow is the last day to early vote for the primary and the Secretary of State’s office says turnout looks to be about average. Spokeswoman Meg Casper says, so far, the numbers are only slightly behind what they saw for the Congressional elections in 2014…

cut 7 (10) “several cycles”

The 2015 gubernatorial early voting period will end tomorrow at 6pm.

The Louisiana Army National Guard has made significant jumps in their overall strength and retention of force. LANG ranks number four among all other states’ National Guards in overall strength of its force and first for retaining personnel. Col. Pete Schneider praises everyone at the Guard for helping raise Louisiana’s rankings…

cut 4 (10) “our state”

He says Louisiana ranked number 15 last year in overall strength. In the last year, LANG was able to increase their numbers to 9,650, better than 100-percent of their strength goal.