A hurricane warning is in effect from Morgan City to the Mississippi/Alabama border. State Climatologist Barry Keim says Zeta is expected to bring hurricane conditions to portions of the Northern Gulf of Mexico Wednesday.
Coastal parishes in southeast Louisiana are bracing for their first direct hit from a hurricane this year.
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Metairie native, Judge Amy Coney Barrett has been confirmed to the US Supreme Court, filling a vacancy left by the departed Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Senator John Kennedy touted the nomination saying Barrett is a judge who understands judicial restraint.
The vote was 52-48 strictly along party lines with only one Republican joining with Democrats in voting against her nomination.
According to a report by the Louisiana Budget Project, the state saw a 28 percent increase in uninsured children between 2018 and 2019. LBP Policy Director Stacey Roussel says 50,000 Louisiana children went into the pandemic without health insurance, and that number is expected to rise for the 2020 report.