Hurricane Zeta is still on track for a Wednesday night landfall somewhere in southeast Louisiana as a category one. 90 mile per hour winds are certainly possible and Director of Emergency Preparedness for St. Bernard Parish John Rahaim says they’re preparing for that and more…
Between two and five inches of rain is also expected in the southeast.
State Climatologist Barry Keim says storm surge warnings are in place from Port Fourchon to the Pearl River, basically all of southeast Louisiana, between four and six feet.
Should Zeta maintain named-storm strength by the time it makes landfall it will be the record breaking fifth named storm to hit the state this season.
On a party line 52-48 vote Metairie Judge and now Justice Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed to the US Supreme Court to fill a seat left open by the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Senator Bill Cassidy released a statement saying “Friends and relatives of Amy Coney Barrett in Metairie and across Louisiana are right to feel particularly proud at this moment.” And Senator John Kennedy says Barrett has an impressive, and unimpeachable past having graduated from Dominican High, Rhodes College, and Notre Dame…
Democrats argue the nomination should never have gone forward, citing precedent set by Senate Republicans in the last year of the Obama Administration.