The “Blue Lives Matter” law goes into effect today. Jeff Palermo reports attacks on law enforcement can now be considered a hate crime…:
CUT 1 (30) “I’m Jeff Palermo”

The National Hurricane Center is tracking a strong tropical wave that they say is moving quickly over the east-central Caribbean Sea as of Sunday night. According to forecasters, the showers and thunderstorms associated with the system show signs of organization, and has the potential to become a tropical cyclone.  This wave is being given a 50 percent chance for development in the next 2 days.

Sad story out of LaFourche Parish. The Sheriff’s Office believes a 26-year-old mother, Nakesha Carrere, shot her give year old daughter to death, then turned the gun on herself in an apparent murder suicide…:
CUT 14 (08) “the scene”
That’s LaFourche Parish Sheriff’s office spokesperson Brennan Matherne. He says the father is the one who made the devastating discovery.

A Terrebonne Parish island is disappearing, and one UL-Lafayette professor is working to preserve its history before it’s gone. Dr. Heather Stone says Isle de Jean Charles is home to the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw tribe of Native Americans. She says many tribe members have had to leave the island because the road that connects it to the coast floods often…:
CUT 7 (08) “a choice”
Stone says she is passionate about preserving the tribe’s heritage.