The Senate Homeland Security Committee is meeting at this hour with state and federal officials regarding FEMA’s response to flood victims. Chairman and Baton Rouge Senator Bodi White says many residents have been getting conflicting information from agents so he has some advice in that regard…:
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White says he’s invited mayors from the flooded areas to see what their plans are for building permits.

Meanwhile the feds are encountering various road blocks when it comes to getting the FEMA manufactured housing units to residents. The post-Katrina FEMA trailers were heavily criticized, but Shreveport Representative Cedric Glover says these bigger units are not feasible either…:
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Only one FEMA mobile home has been installed on a flood victim’s property.

Today is the funeral for St. John District Chief Spencer Chauvin. Police say an illegal immigrant crashed a bus into Chauvin’s fire truck, several other vehicles and then into Chauvin and two other firefighters. It threw them off the I-10 Three Mile Bridge and into the water below. Chauvin died a short time later. Another person died in the incident.

Governor John Bel Edwards is in Acadiana today where he is slated to speak at an event, then tour a neighborhood in Lafayette that experienced significant damage from the historic flooding event.

The LSU Alumni Association’s “Traveling Tigers” say, in 33 years of hitting up away games, the trip they are making today to Green Bay is the largest they have ever done. Rhett Butler with the Alumni Association says most of the fans making the trip for the LSU/Wisconsin game have always wanted to see a game in Lambeau Field…:
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LSU officials are projecting around 30,000 Tiger fans will attend the game.