Louisiana is recovering from the effects of Hurricane Laura, having to dislodge a riverboat casino from the I-10 Bridge in Lake Charles and house nearly 2,000 evacuees in hotels. Matt Doyle has the story.
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The state health department reports 67 Hurricane Laura related water system outages, which is impacting over 220-thousand residents. L-D-H Chief Engineer Amanda Ames…
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Hundreds of thousands of people spent last night without any power. Cleco spokesperson Jennifer Cahill says they are receiving additional manpower to restore service to their customers.
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Cleco reports about 100-thousand of their customers are without power. Entergy has 240-thousand customers in the dark and SWEPCO is reporting about 128-thousand outages.

Hurricane Laura cut a path of destruction from Lake Charles through north Louisiana. In Rapides Parish, the Sheriff’s Chief of Staff Tommy Carnline says they had no idea they’d be hit so hard so far inland….
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A curfew is in place for Rapides Parish from 9 PM to 6AM.