KAJN Jesus FM 102.9


6-8-20

ELEVEN MORE DEATHS IN LOUISIANA FROM COVID NINETEEN WERE REPORTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH.  THE TOTAL IS NOW TWO THOUSAND, EIGHT-HUNDRED-TWENTY-FIVE.  THERE ARE THREE HUNDRED-THIRTY MORE CASES OF CORONAVIRUS, PUTTING THE TOTAL OVER FORTY-TWO THOUSAND, EIGHT HUNDRED.  THE NUMBER OF PATIENTS IN HOSPITALS WITH COVID NINETEEN WENT DOWN BY SEVEN TO FIVE HUNDRED SEVENTY-FIVE TOTAL.  AND THERE ARE THREE FEWER PATIENTS ON VENTILATORS.

 

THERE WERE JUST TWO DEATHS IN ACADIANA, ONE EACH IN ACADIA AND IBERIA PARISHES.  THE TOTAL FOR THE REGION IS TWO HUNDRED THIRTEEN.  ACADIANA HAD TWENTY-ONE MORE CASES OF CORONAVIRUS, INCLUDING FOURTEEN IN LAFAYETTE PARISH.  THE TOTAL IS TWO THOUSAND, SIX HUNDRED EIGHTY-FOUR.

 

SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HAD ONLY SIX MORE CASES OF CORONAVIRUS, INCLUDING FIVE IN CALCASIEU PARISH.  THE TOTAL FOR THE REGION IS ONE THOUSAND, TWENTY-FOUR.  THERE WERE NO NEW DEATHS REPORTED.  SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HAS HAD SEVENTY-TWO TOTAL DEATHS FROM COVID NINETEEN.

 

AUTHORITIES ARE INVESTIGATING A STABBING IN IOTA.  SYLVIA MASTERS HAS MORE.

 

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THE HEAD OF THE L-S-U CENTER FOR ENERGY STUDIES IS PREDICTING A SLUMP IN THE ENERGY INDUSTRY TO CONTINUE UNTIL AT LEAST TWENTY-TWENTY-FIVE.  DAVID DISMUKES GAVE HIS DOUR PREDICTIONS TO BUSINESS OWNERS ON A CALL HOSTED BY THE BATON ROUGE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.  HE SAYS A LULL IN INDUSTRIAL CONSTRUCTION IN LOUSIANA SET IN LAST YEAR AFTER SEVERAL MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR PROJECTS WERE COMPLETED, BUT THOSE PROJECTS ARE NOT TAKING IN AS MUCH MONEY AS EXPECTED.  HE SAYS OVERSEAS BUYERS OF LIQUID NATURAL GAS HAVE ALREADY CANCELLED TWENTY TANKER SHIP LOADS FOR JUNE AND JULY FROM L-N-G FACILITIES AND IT’S ANTICIPATED THAT AS MUCH AS ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE SHIPLOADS WILL BE CANCELLED BY THE END OF THE SUMMER.

A MORATORIUM ON EVICTIONS AND FORECLOSURES FOR LOUISIANA IS SET TO EXPIRE ON MONDAY, JUNE FIFTEENTH, UNLESS THE GOVERNOR EXTENDS IT.  HOUSING ADVOCATES IN LAFAYETTE ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE POTENTIAL FLOOD OF EVICTIONS TO COME WHEN THE MORATORIUM ENDS.  LEIGH RACHAL OF THE ACADIANA REGIONAL COALITION ON HOMELESSNESS AND HOUSING TELLS THE ADVOCATE THAT ONCE THE FEDERAL MORATORIUM ON EVICTIONS IS LIFTED NEXT MONTH, THERE WILL BE HOMELESSNESS LIKE THE COMMUNITY HAS NOT SEEN AND FOR WHICH IT IS NOT READY.  THE MOST RECENT CENSUS DATA SHOWS THIRTY-ONE-POINT-NINE PERCENT OF THE STATE’S POPULATION IS HOUSING INSECURE, MEANING THEY MISSED THEIR MOST RECENT MORTGAGE OR RENT PAYMENT AND AREN’T SURE IF THEY’LL BE ABLE TO PAY IT NEXT MONTH.

 

A PEACEFUL PROTEST IN SUPPORT OF GEORGE FLOYD WAS HELD IN LAKE ARTHUR SATURDAY.  HUNDREDS PARTICIPATED IN A TWENTY MINUTE MARCH ON MAIN STREET AND A RALLY AT A PARK.  TWO OF THE PROTESTERS, CHRIS JONES AND DEVANTE DUHON, WERE RELATED TO FLOYD, WHO WAS KILLED BY A MINNEAPOLIS POLICE OFFICER, WHO’S SINCE BEEN CHARGED WITH MURDER.  JONES TOLD KATC THAT HE’S SURE THE FLOYD FAMILY WILL BE HAPPY GEORGE HAS BEEN REPRESENTED IN LOUISIANA, WHICH HE CALLED GEORGE’S SECOND HOME.

 

ON SATURDAY NIGHT, WINDS FROM AN APPROACHING TROPICAL STORM CAUSED PART OF A TREE TO CRASH THROUGH A HOME IN ST. MARTIN PARISH.  THE HOMEOWNER, ROBER TESCH, SAYS HE HEARD A CRACK AND THEN THE TREE CAME CRASHING THROUGH THE ROOF, BUT HE AND HIS DOG AND CATS WERE UNHARMED.  TESCH TELLS KATC TV THAT HE’LL PROBABLY TEAR DOWN THE HOUSE, WHICH HE HATES TO DO BECAUSE OF ITS FAMILY HISTORY, GOING BACK TO THE NINETEEN-FORTIES.  TESCH ACTUALLY LIVES ACROSS THE STREET BUT STAYS IN THE COTTAGE OCCASIONALLY SO THAT IT DOESN’T APPEAR EMPTY AND BECOME A TARGET OF VANDALS.