Sally threatens to bring life-threatening storm surge and over a foot of rain to southeast Louisiana when it makes landfall Tuesday. Matt Doyle has the story.
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Unemployment recipients will be receiving their last federally boosted checks this week. Brooke Thorington has the story.
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Sally is expected to impact southeast Louisiana as a hurricane early Tuesday, bringing lots of rain. Kevin Barnhart has the story.
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Mosquito swarms have invaded southwest Louisiana following Hurricane Laura leaving some livestock dead. The bugs either bite the animals into exhaustion or form globs in nasal passages, suffocating them. In an effort to protect herds, Ag Commissioner Mike Strain recommends keeping animals in a barn with forced air flow.
Strain says local governments are doing the best they can with aerial sprays to cut down on the problem, but adds sprays are available for ranchers to apply to the animals.
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Reports indicate a large part of the swarm was pushed out of the marsh by Hurricane Laura, with rains in the days following making the situation worse. Strain recommends draining anything that might hold standing water where mosquito eggs may be laid.
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Tropical Storm Sally is now expected to make landfall as a category one hurricane near the mouth of the Mississippi River Tuesday, bringing heavy rain and life-threatening storm surge.
State Climatologist Barry Keim says unfortunately once Sally makes landfall it’s projected to slow down significantly…
Keim areas between the mouth of the Mississippi River and Ocean Spring Mississippi could face up to 11 feet of storm surge, and Lake Ponchartrain could see six feet if Sally keeps her current track.
Keim says Sally may only be a category one at landfall but its track and slow pace make it look a lot like 2012’s Hurricane Isaac.
Isaac caused mass power outages in New Orleans, overwhelmed pumping stations in Slidell, and forced evacuations in parts of Tangipahoa Parish due to river flooding.
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The final round of 300 dollar federally boosted unemployment checks goes out this week, with no apparent efforts to replace the money on the horizon.
Louisiana Workforce Commission Secretary Ava Dejoie says they’ve been informed by the feds the checks will cease after the payment week ending September 5th.
The round of payments that were administered mid-August and were retroactive to August 1st were funded by FEMA emergency response funds.
Dejoie says these five weeks of benefits were a stopgap measure done by executive order while Congress was supposed to deliberate the next pandemic relief package.
Dejoie says the unemployed should start searching LWC’s job listing for an opportunity now that benefits will be limited to the 247 max you can collect from the state.
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Tropical Storm Sally is expected to make landfall in southeast Louisiana as a hurricane early Tuesday morning. Governor John Bel Edwards says Louisiana residents should not underestimate this storm.
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Edwards says the storm is a slow-moving system with the possibility of dropping overwhelming amounts of rain on the New Orleans area.
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Edwards says there are no COVID-19 measures keeping power restoration workers from entering the state for the storm. Edwards adds there are currently no plans to evacuate the Hurricane Laura evacuees who are currently sheltered in New Orleans hotels.
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For the first time since 1943, the Ragin Cajuns are ranked in the AP Top 25. Lousiaina Football caught the attention of national writers with a 31-14 victory over Iowa State, who was ranked 23rd in the country. The Cajuns are now ranked 19th in th media poll, 21st in the coaches poll. Quarterback Levi Lewis says it feels good to see that their hard work is paying off…
Saturday’s win over the Cyclones was the Cajuns second-ever win over a top-25 team and first road win over a ranked opponent. Coach Billy Napier says based on the amount of resources the university has put into the program, they expect to be successful
The Ragin Cajuns will be in Atlanta this Saturday for an 11 AM matchup against Georgia State on ESPN 2.
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The Saints took down Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in a 34-23 season opening win in front of a fanless Superdome on Sunday. If Who Dat nation was present, they would standing on their feet and cheering the performance of running back Alvin Kamara, who had two touchdowns. Coach Sean Payton says it’s nice to see healthy Kamara…
Before the game, Kamra signed a five-year, 75-million dollar contract. A-K says he’s glad the deal got done…
Even though the Saints put up 34 points. It wasn’t a great performance by the offense. Drew Brees threw for just 160 yards and the Black and Gold averaged just two yards a rush. Payton was upset with how he called the game.
But the defense stepped up with a big play early in the third quarter when Janoris Jenkins intercepted a Brady pass and ran for 36 yards into the end zone for a score. Jenkins says he knew that pass play was coming