On a Friday afternoon twenty years ago, no one expected Hurricane Katrina would upend lives by Monday. That’s because Katrina’s original forecast track showed landfall over Pensacola, Florida. A sudden westward shift brought her widespread destruction to New Orleans, southeast Louisiana and coastal Mississippi. LSU Public Health Climatologist Barry Keim says forecasting technology has improved in the last two decades.
Keim says now drones fly into the hurricanes to gather more data than the airplanes.
We now know how Bryan Vasquez died. New Orleans Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick made the announcement about the nonverbal autistic boy who disappeared from his home on August 14th.
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At her request, the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries has begun work to eradicate nuisance alligators.
Is tonight the night that Northwestern State football wins its first game since November of 2022? Andre Champagne has the story.
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The 90th annual Shrimp and Petroleum Festival gets underway this evening in Morgan City. It’s a celebration of two of Louisiana’s biggest industries; but last year, genetic testing done at five vendors that claimed to be selling local shrimp found that four of them were selling imported shrimp. Festival President Charlie Solar Jr. says this year, all shrimp is required to be domestically caught, and organizers will make sure of that.