We now have firm dates for when the rest of the power will come back on in Cameron and Calcasieu Parish. Matt Doyle has the story…
The state reports 426 new cases today out of 12,659 tests. Total cases… 158,318. Total deaths surpass 51-hundred, with 26 fatalities reported today. COVID ventilator use drops to 99 today, overall hospitalizations is at 667.
LSU Football Coach Ed Orgeron said during a zoom press conference with reporters that most of the players on his team have tested positive for the coronavirus. Orgeron did not give an exact number. but he says the players who have been infected will be able to play during the season
Orgeron says there are three or four players who currently have the coronavirus and they are not practicing.
Louisiana will be spared much of any impact from Sally as the Hurricane took an abrupt turn for the Alabama coast before reaching The Boot. State Climatologist Barry Keim warns just because we dodged Sally doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods. This season has already tied 1933 for the record of the second most named storms at 20 and it’s only halfway over…
2005 still holds the record for most named storms at 27