Before you go to bed tonight, you might want to set your alarm clock a little earlier. Andrew Greenstein reports that’s because you’ll be in for a special treat up in the sky tonight.
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The Louisiana National Guard will remain on patrol in New Orleans. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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If you’re an early bird, you’re going to be in for a very special treat early tomorrow morning: a total lunar eclipse. LSU Planetary Astrophysicist Dr. Natalie Hinkel says it’s a phenomenon that happens when the sun, the Earth and the moon completely align with one another – in that order.
Hinkel says unlike in a solar eclipse, in which the path of totality is only a few miles wide, the path of totality in a lunar eclipse is several hundred miles wide. In this case, it encompasses the entire state at the same time, with the change starting around 2:44 a.m. (Totality begins at 5:04 a.m.; the max eclipsing occurs at 5:33 a.m., and it ends at 6:02 a.m.)
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Hinkel says if you want to see the lunar eclipse, set your alarm early, get out of bed and step into your back yard – because your next opportunity will not come around for a while.
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Southeastern Louisiana University celebrated its 100th anniversary last year and this spring the university celebrates its historic growth with over 15,000 students enrolled for the first time in 10 years and the largest Spring enrollment in SLU history. Chief Enrollment Management Officer, Kay Maurin says it wasn’t luck.
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Maurin says a key component of the historic growth came in the category of dual enrollment students with over 5,000 high school students across the state earing college credit at SLU.
Southeastern President William Wainwright says the university’s growth is important as the state focuses on economic growth. Maurin credits a comprehensive campus-wide plan that includes faculty and staff for the enrollment success that is important to their economic impact.
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Shreveport is dealing with a water crisis as a citywide boil advisory has been issued after a water main busted over the weekend resulting in low water pressure for many residents. Shreveport Mayor Tom Arceneaux says to restore water pressure to all customers, crews will need to complete a temporary fix…
Arceneaux says it will take until Friday for workers to complete the temporary fix. Until the temporary fix is in place, he’s asking residents to conserve water to help with water pressure…
Arceneaux says the break occurred in a 42-inch pipe installed in 1979. He says the city realizes its water infrastructure is old, which is why have they have already started upgrading the water system
The mayor says he expects the citywide boil advisory will likely last through the weekend.
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The joint U-S-Israeli attacks on Iran will result in higher gas prices. That is according to AAA’s Nick Chabarria, who says oil prices rose sharply after the initial strikes on Iran which will lead to an increase the price at the pump. He says gas prices were already increasing upward because of the shift from a winter blend gasoline to a summer blend…
The statewide average price for a gallon of regular gasoline is $2.57. That’s up seven cents from a week ago. Chabarria says it’s hard to say how much more gas prices will increase now that a war has broken out in the Middle East…
Chabarria says the silver lining for Louisiana is that gas prices are 17-cents lower than they were at this time last year…