Starting today, you’d better not be hogging the left lane – otherwise, be prepared to pay a 150-dollar ticket for your first offense. Under the previous law, you would have been subject to a ticket by going at least ten miles under the posted speed limit in the left lane. Now, the standard is one mile under and riding abreast with a vehicle in the next lane over. Alexandria Democratic Senator Jay Luneau says the public got squarely behind his measure.
Congressmen Cleo Fields and Clay Higgins are teaming up on the Fisheries Modernization Act. Fields says it would expand fishery disaster relief programs.
Cut 3 (05) “…and other crawfish.”
Fields says the USDA has helped other industries affected by droughts; he says it’s time to include the crawfish industry, which is vital to Louisiana’s economy.
The Louisiana Department of Health is warning you of a growing presence of Vibrio vulnificus. It’s a bacteria that naturally lives in coastal waters; it does not live in freshwater. The bacteria can cause illness or death through contact with an open wound or through consumption of raw seafood, especially oysters. State epidemiologist Teresa Sokol says the danger becomes greater when the water gets warm.
Cut 23 (12) “…in those temperatures.”
So far this year, 17 people have been hospitalized after becoming infected with Vibrio, and four of them have died.