Hurricane Delta made landfall on the Yucatan Coast this morning as a Category Two storm and once it gets back into the Gulf, it’s expected to ramp back up to a major hurricane. A projected landfall is expected Friday afternoon near Vermilion Parish. National Weather Service New Orleans Director Ben Schott says the impacts of Delta will be significant…
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Meanwhile in Franklin today, funeral services will take place for former Louisiana Governor Mike Foster who died Sunday at 90. Former Governor Bobby Jindal remembers Foster as a down to earth guy…
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Private funeral services will take place at his home and there will be a public burial afterwards.

The House Education Committee meets today and they’ll discuss a bill that addresses the suspension of a fourth-grader in Jefferson Parish for moving a BB gun in his bedroom during a virtual classroom. Ka Mauri Harrison was suspended for six days. Jennings Representative Troy Romero believes school officials overreacted…
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Romero’s legislation seeks to create a separation for disciplinary matters that occur in the classroom compared to a person’s home.

The experimental antibody treatment President Trump has received since testing positive for COVID-19 has been studied in Shreveport as part of clinical trials at Willis-Knighton. Principal investigator Doctor Joseph Bocchini says it’s a combination of two monoclonal antibodies designed to specifically block the infectivity of the virus that causes COVID-19…
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Bocchini says there are encouraging signs this experimental cocktail is an effective treatment for COVID-19 patients who are not hospitalized.