Today in the House Homeland Security Committee meeting, lawmakers grilled a FEMA administrator on why it’s taking so long to get flood victims assistance. FEMA Coordinating Officer Gerard Stolar says 111-thousand home inspections have been ordered but only 56-thousand have been conducted.
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Stolar says there are 23-hundred FEMA personnel working on this disaster.

Today, State Treasurer John Kennedy told lawmakers the one-cent increase in the state sales tax should be suspended for flood victims, even if it means calling a special session, which upset New Orleans Senator JP Morell. Kennedy says Morrell is entitled to his opinion.

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Morrell says the tax code doesn’t allow them to suspend taxes on the fly.

The Baton Rouge Area Foundation has donated over 1.6 million dollars in flood relief and plans to give even more. Michelle Southern has the story…

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Louisiana federal prosecutors have indicted six officials with Explo Systems Incorporated for leaving 78-hundred tons of explosives at a Louisiana National Guard Facility. The indictment alleges the officials lied to get a contract to demilitarize the explosives then improperly stored them at Camp Minden, and all six are charges with criminal conspiracy.