Seven months to the day after casting the vote that for all intents and purposes sealed his confirmation as US health secretary, Senator Bill Cassidy takes Robert F. Kennedy to task over his vaccine policies during a Senate Finance Committee hearing. Andrew Greenstein reports.

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LSU’s Jay Johnson is set to become the highest paid college baseball coach in the country as the LSU Board of Supervisors is expected to approve his new contract tomorrow that pays him three million plus dollars a year.

Next week is the peak of the hurricane season and still no tropical threats to the Gulf coast. LSU Health Climatologist Barry Keim says that’s the good news, the bad news is that the lack of storms has allowed the water temperature in the Gulf to soar two degrees above normal, to 87-degrees…

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Keim says hot sea surface temperatures can produce rapid intensification.

The state Department of Transportation is encouraging Louisiana teens to promote safe driving through creativity and advocacy. They are conducting a video contest that gives high school students a chance to express the importance of seat belt use and avoiding phone distractions…

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Mallett says distracted driving contributed to 25-percent of crash fatalities last year. For more information go to DOTD’s website.