A hurricane watch has been issued for the southwest and south-central Louisiana coastline and a tropical storm watch extends to the mouth of the Mississippi as Laura inches closer to her projected early Thursday morning landfall along the Cameron Parish coast.
Laura, which is moving towards the Gulf on its way past Cuba at the moment is not a hurricane yet, but it should be soon. Projections have the system as a very strong category two, potentially even a category three as it beelines directly for Lake Charles. National Weather Service Meteorologist Freddie Zeigler says Laura could produce a dangerous storm surge…
That storm surge is leading southwest and south-central Louisiana parishes to call for voluntary evacuations. Governor Edwards says as you pack up to leave please don’t forget about the pandemic…
Retiring Congressman Ralph Abraham’s former Chief of Staff Luke Letlow is the first candidate in the 5th Congressional District race to take the airwaves with TV ads. Letlow is generally believed to be competing against state lawmaker Lance Harris and Police Juror Scotty Robinson for the presumptive Republican spot in a December run-off against one of the Democratic candidates, and ULM Poli Sci Professor Joshua Stockley says Letlow is flexing his frontrunner status.
A police pursuit on LA Highway 82 in St. Mary Parish ends in a fatal crash, leaving two people dead. A Patterson Police officer attempted to conduct a traffic stop on a vehicle driven by 39-year-old Joseph James of Franklin, but Trooper Thomas Gossen says the driver fled, reaching speeds in excess of 100 miles per hour.