Governor John Bel Edwards announces multiple options on how the state plans to house displaced flood victims. The governor says one option is manufactured homes for those who received extensive damage that will take months to repair…:
Cut 13 (11) “who need them”
Edwards says the program will be open on Monday and they’ll announce how people can apply.

The Louisiana Senate’s Homeland Security Committee holds a meeting today to get an update on recovery efforts two weeks after the floods. State Sen. Bodi White of Central says several agencies will meet and discuss the next steps…:
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White says the public is welcome to attend the meeting, or watch live online on the Louisiana Legislature’s website.

Louisiana has seen two historic floods just five months apart, and though similar in nature, the devastation is vastly different. Rev. Allison Sauls was living in Monroe during the March flood, and recently moved to Lafayette just before the flood in south Louisiana. She says the flooding in the south was more widespread than it was up north…:
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The tropical wave moving west over the Leeward Islands and about 100 miles north of Puerto Rico continues to lack a well-defined center, according to the National Hurricane Center. They say the system could still become a tropical cyclone during the next couple of days, but without a defined center of circulation forecasting the storm’s path is difficult.