330PM LRN Newscast June 13

The final act of this year’s special session trilogy is less than a week away, with the administration and many legislators scrambling to find some extra cash for programs like TOPS, which is facing a 30 percent cut. House Appropriations Chairman Cameron Henry says the Department of Health is one place the state should look if it wants to plug the budget gaps.

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The session starts Monday

US Senator John Kennedy is weighing in on President Donald Trump’s historic summit meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Kennedy says past threats were laughed off, and with Trump, threats of military action are taken seriously.

Cut 13 (11) “in Syria.” 

Bashar Al Assad is the current President of Syria, who has sustained his military rule through nearly a decade of civil war.

40 million dollars in federal money is being sent to the state to help more parents pay for childcare. Connor Ferrill has more.

Cut 2 (31) “I’m Connor Ferrill” 

Three out of four pediatricians say is not the way to handle an unruly kid. Tulane associate professor Catherine Taylor says that the widely accepted punishment can have a negative outcome.

Cut 6 (07)  “…than good for kids.”