FEMA announces they will continue to pay for hotel rooms for displaced flood victims through December 18. Dennis Rodriguez is one of those staying in a hotel and says he’s thrilled they’ve extended the deadline because his home still unlivable. He says he’d have nowhere to live if the program ended on November 18 as planned.

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More than 2-thousand families are using the program.

It’s been one year since GLO Airlines inaugural flight out of their New Orleans based terminal. Currently, GLO offers daily flights from New Orleans to five destinations in the Gulf South. Founder and CEO Trey Fayard says they’re looking to depart from other Gulf and mid-South cities in the future.

Cut 13 (07) “in Louisiana”

GLO recently added flights to Huntsville, Alabama, and Destin.

There’s an outpouring of support for an injured high school football player who is still recovering in the hospital. St. Paul high school Athletic Director, Craig Ketelsen, says when he visited Michael Doherty at Lakeview Hospital, there were so many visitors that he was only able to talk to the player’s parents.

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Doherty sustained a serious back injury when he collided with three players.

Hollywood South is also trying to recover from the devastating blow a cap on the state’s film tax credit program had on the industry. Louisiana Film and Entertainment Association President Patrick Mulhearn hopes lawmakers will fix the problems with the program before it expires in 18 months.

Cut 6 (10) “front-end cap”

Mulhearn he is cautiously optimistic about the future of the program.