08:30 Newscast, August 3rd, 2017

The dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico is the biggest one ever measured…:
Cut 2 (31) “I’m Jeff Palermo”

The members of the task force charged with discussing the TOPS scholarship program have been announced. Jennings Senator Blade Morrish will chair the committee. He says there are many things that have changed about TOPS since it launched 20 years ago…:
Cut 14 (11) “look at TOPS”

The state Department of Transportation is discussing the possibility of widening Interstate 12 in the western part of St. Tammany Parish between Mandeville and Covington. Jennifer Branton with DOTD says this expansion is necessary because of the recent increase in people commuting through the area…:
Cut 8 (08) “to cross”
Branton hopes funding will become available to make this over 100 million dollar project happen because at least 80-thousand vehicles travel through this corridor every day.

A man from Ohachita Parish will make his first appearance on the Discovery Channel’s Naked and Afraid tonight at 8pm. Dustin Campbell will be dropped with another woman, both without clothes, in a remote location with limited tools, where they are expected to find water and maintain life for 21 days. The West Monroe man said he signed on for the show after seeing his friend Jeremy McCaa on the show twice, the second of which was in the Atchafalaya Basin in Louisiana for 25 days.