12:30 Newscast, January 30th, 2018

Members of the Lafayette Cajun band The Lost Ramblers are back in Louisiana today after a couple of days of celebrating their Grammy in New York City. “Kalenda” won the group a gramophone for Best Regional Roots Music Album. Co-founder Andre Michot (Me-Show) says winning was a complete shock…:
Cut 6 (05) “all the way, you know?”
A Louisiana artist has won the Regional Roots award six times in the 7-year-old category.

For the first time since 1866, three separate celestial events will occur simultaneously in the U.S. tomorrow morning. There will be a blue moon, a super moon and a total lunar eclipse. But Louisiana won’t see much of the eclipse, according to Tyler Ellis with the LSU Department of Physics and Astronomy:
Cut 9 (09) “that’s unfortunate”
NASA will be showing the event online at nasa.gov.

The man who founded the Cajun Navy will be in attendance for tonight’s State of the Union. Matt Doyle has more…:
Cut 2 (31) “I’m Matt Doyle”

A group in New Orleans which fought the removal of Confederate monuments created a Mardi Gras bead to commemorate the Robert E. Lee statue which was taken down last May. But they are now gone as Forever Lee Circle said on Facebook that the beads bearing their name are sold out.