Governor Edwards files a lawsuit defending his public health emergency orders against a legislative petition that seeks to terminate the emergency declaration. Matt Doyle has the story.
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A hurricane warning is up from Morgan City to the Mississippi-Alabama border as Tropical Storm Zeta is expected to make landfall in southeast Louisiana tomorrow night as a Category One storm. New Orleans and Slidell could see wind speeds of up to 60 miles per hour, while 80-mile per hour plus winds are expected for Port Fourchon and Buras.

It’s the last day of early voting and Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin expects another busy day with as many as 80 thousand voters expected to cast their ballot. At the end of this extended version of early voting Ardoin, predicts as many as 950-thousand Louisianans will have performed their civic duty.
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Early voting will conclude at 7 PM.

The Louisiana Budget Project says based on U-S Census data about 11-thousand children in this state lost their health insurance last year, the largest single-year drop in over a decade. L-B-P policy director Stacey Roussel says the uninsured rate for children is rising across the country as well as here in Louisiana…
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