08:30 Newscast, January 30th, 2018

President Donald Trump’s first official State of the Union address is tonight. LSU Political Science Professor Robert Hogan believes Mr. Trump will stress the strengths of his Administration…:
Cut 5 (08) “economic vitality”

The man who founded the Cajun Navy will be there tonight…:
Cut 2 (31) “I’m Matt Doyle”

Governor John Bel Edwards’ “Doomsday Budget” proposal has state agencies scrambling to shore up funding, and LSU’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center is looking at a potential 600,000 dollar cut. Executive Director John Kirwan says all of this uncertainty tends to drive away talented researchers…:
Cut 8 (10) “this or that”
Kirwan says the budget cuts threaten Pennington’s groundbreaking research on diabetes, which he says effects nearly 50 percent of the state’s population.

If you’ve got plants that appear to have died in the recent frigid weather, don’t give up on them just yet. Horticulture expert Dan Gill with the LSU Ag Center says some of Louisiana’s flourishing tropical plants tend to come back in the spring…:
Cut 14 (10) “what’s dead”