A CBS poll finds President Barack Obama is leaving office with an approval rating of 62-percent, which is the third highest approval rating for an outgoing President since 1981. Local pollster Bernie Pinsonat says many people like Mr. Obama, but it’s his policies that has many voters unhappy…
cut 4 (10) “…very unpopular”

Secretary of State Tom Schedler is asking President-elect Donald Trump to undo President Obama’s designation that all 50 states’ election systems to be considered “critical infrastructure.” Schelder says there was no credible evidence of hacking discovered in any state during the November 2016 election…:
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security says the designation does not mean a federal takeover.

Shreveport police have arrested an 11-year-old for the armed robbery of a woman at an ATM machine. Corporal Marcus Hines says unfortunately, seeing children commit crimes like armed robbery isn’t as rare as you think…
cut 11 (09) “…into automobiles”

Hines says they believe it was the boy’s family that told him to surrender to authorities after surveillance video of the robbery went public.

A federal climate report finds 2016 was the warmest on Earth since 1880, when record keeping began. State Climatologist Barry Keim says that’s the third straight year experts have determined it’s the warmest year on record…
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Keim says 2016 was Louisiana’s third warmest year on record.