After one full day, 63-hundred flood victims have applied for the Shelter at Home Program. The Governor’s Deputy Chief of Staff, Julie Baxter Payer says the program awards up to $15,000, so flooded homeowners can make their homes livable while they rebuild…:
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Payer says people can apply at ShelterAtHome.la.gov.

Two bodies were pulled today from the wreckage of a small plane that crashed into Lake Ponchatrain on Saturday night. Director of Aviation at the New Orleans Lakefront Airport, Ben Morris, says the families were worried about finding their loved ones…
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The two people killed have been identified in media reports as 25-year-old Reginald Hilliard of Baton Rouge and the pilot was from Thibodaux.

US Representative Garrett Graves says the largest FEMA payment for flood victims he’s heard of is around $8-thousand, but the max is $33-thousand. He says FEMA needs to be respectful that some of these victims just lost everything.
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Graves says he doesn’t understand why people are still in shelters when there are 13-hundred FEMA housing units around the country.

Tropical Depression 9 in the southern Gulf of Mexico is expected to become a tropical storm by tomorrow. Alek Krautmann with the National Weather Service says the area of low pressure is not expected to have an impact on Louisiana, expect for high tides along the southeastern coast.
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