A 24 million dollar state program designed to provide rental assistance to low-income individuals has been temporarily suspended due to an “overwhelming response”. The program had enough funding to help 10,000 households pay three months of rent, but it received 40,000 applications. Louisiana Fair Housing Action Center Director Cashauna Hill…
Cut 3 (11) “…need is.”
Hill says 500-million dollars is likely needed to address the impending rent crisis in Louisiana.

The National Hurricane Center is monitoring three tropical waves, but none of the disturbances are a serious threat to Louisiana. State Climatologist Barry Keim says a weak low pressure area south of the Texas-Louisiana border has caught the attention of forecasters….
cut 12 (07) “…southwestern Louisiana”
Keim says there’s another disturbance way out in the Atlantic and the other is over Cuba and heading towards the Gulf of Mexico. But the chances of development are low over the next five days at this time.

House Speaker Clay Schexnayder is discouraging his fellow Republicans from supporting an effort spearheaded by Shreveport Republican Alan Seabaugh to revoke the Governor’s coronavirus pandemic state of emergency. Schexnayer says the petition fixes nothing.
Cut 9 (10) “…all to that.”
Schexnayder adds the move could trigger overrides for ongoing executive orders tied to previous natural disasters and be a hurdle for the governor’s authority to tackle future events.

Governor Edwards will use his lunch hour to fast and pray as the state’s death toll from the coronavirus has reached 3,433. Edwards says he got the idea from a conference call with faith leaders…
cut 7 (09) “….other Louisianians”
Edwards says he’ll fast and pray for lunch through Wednesday.