Officials in Sabine Parish believe a ten-month-old child spent three days living underneath her deceased father’s body. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell seeks a court order to prevent Ebola waste from entering Louisiana. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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A cold front continues to move across the state today bringing thunderstorm activity along the frontal edge. Gavin Phillips, with the National Weather Service in Slidell, says the front began rolling through northwest Louisiana earlier today…
CUT 3 (07) “across the state”
Phillips says the squall line of thunderstorms will work its way southeastward across the state this afternoon and tonight. He says we can expect one to three inches of rain as a result of this cold front. Phillips says thunderstorm activity will be heavy, at times, but it will be brief…
CUT 4 (04) “pretty rapidly”
He says once the front moves through, you can expect to feel fall-like temperatures. Phillips says temperatures will begin to drop in north Louisiana as tonight…
CUT 5 (04) “tomorrow morning”
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A ten-month-old infant is recovering at a hospital in Shreveport after she spent nearly three days under her father’s body. Sabine Parish Deputy Coroner Ron Rivers says 43-year-old Jason Fields of Pleasant Hill suffered a massive heart attack in her bedroom and fell back on top of the infant, who was resting on the bed
CUT 6 (09) “long period of time”
Rivers says the infant, Betty Jean Fields, was dehydrated and suffering from blisters on her skin. He says there was also an indentation on her forehead from her father’s body lying on top of her
CUT 7 (09) “trauma unit”
Rivers says the last report he’s received, the infant is doing okay. He says there was a five-year-old child also in the home, but it took him three days to alert a neighbor about what happened. The coroner believes the heart attack was so severe that Fields was dead before he fell back on the child
CUT 8 (09) “he did not”
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The Louisiana Attorney General wants a state judge to stop the disposal of the incinerated personal belongings of a Dallas Ebola victm from going into a Calcasieu Parish landfill. AG Buddy Caldwell says there are too many unknowns and it’s absurd to transport potentially hazardous Ebola waste across state lines…
CUT 9 (10) “these issues”
The A-G’s office says six truckloads of possible contaminated material collected from the apartment where the Dallas Ebola victim became ill, were brought to an incinerator in Port Arthur, Texas. From there, the remains are expected to go in a landfill in Carlyss, Louisiana. Caldwell says they filed a temporary restraining order to keep the Ebola Waste out of Louisiana…
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Legal action may not be needed. The waste disposal facility that was expected to take the controversial ash said in a news release that it will no longer accept the waste until Louisiana officials agree it’s safe. Caldwell says there’s probably a safer way to dispose of it, instead of bringing it across state lines…
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A strong line of thunderstorms moving across the state has knocked out power and caused property damage in north Louisiana. Marty Mayeaux (My-you) with the National Weather Service in Shreveport says they are receiving a lot of damage reports from Ouachita Parish…
CUT 12 (10) “all that area”
Mayeaux says damage survey teams will go out tomorrow to determine if a tornado hit the Monroe area
CUT 13 (08) “line winds”
Mayeaux says power outages are widespread across north Louisiana…
cut 14 (06) “across the area”
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