8-31-20
Louisiana residents forced to evacuate because of Hurricane Laura are returning home to survey the damage to their homes and businesses, and some worry they won’t get enough help from state and federal officials. Gov. John Bel Edwards on Sunday warned that residents were in for a long recovery. Crews were starting to take chain saws to fallen trees and patch roofs, but most homes in the hard-hit city of Lake Charles appeared to be untouched following the storm. The Category 4 hurricane packed 150-mph winds and is blamed for 18 deaths in Louisiana and Texas.
President Donald Trump got a firsthand look at the damage from Hurricane Laura. His visit to Louisiana and Texas on Saturday comes two days after he accepted his party’s nomination for a second term. In Lake Charles, Trump toured a neighborhood where streets were blocked by felled trees and houses had been battered by the storm, one with its entire roof torn off. Trump then flew by helicopter to Orange, Texas, to meet officials and survey some of the damage before returning to Washington.
THE PORT BARRE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND ST. LANDRY FIRE DISTRICT TWO ARE COLLECTIONG SUPPLIES FOR THE VICTIMS OF HURRICANE LAURA IN LAKE CHARLES. THEY ARE COLLECTING CLEANING SUPPLIES, TOILETRIES, PET SUPPLIES, NONPERISHABLE FOOD ITEMS AND MORE. POLICE CHIEF DEON BOUDREAUX SAYS SUPPLIES CAN BE DROPPED OFF AT THE PORT BARRE POLICE DEPARTMENT. THEY ARE ASKING RESIDENTS TO NOT DONATE CLOTHING.
THE SHOOTING DEATH OF TRAYFORD PELLERIN BY LAFAYETTE POLICE CONTINUES TO FUEL PROTESTS. SYLVIA MASTERS HAS MORE.
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MARTIN PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES ARRESTED A MAN BELIEVED TO HAVE ROBBED A BROUSSARD CONVENIENCE STORE EARLY SATURDAY MORNING. TWENTY-YEAR-OLD ISAIAH ALEXCEE OF ST. MARTINVILLE ALSO WAS WANTED FOR AN ARMED ROBBERY AT A CONVENIENCE STORE SATURDAY MORNING IN IBERIA PARISH. HE HAS OTHER OUTSTANDING WARRANTS AGAINST HIM ON NUMEROUS CHARGES INCLUDING ASSAULT BY DRIVE BY SHOOTING. AUTHORITIES ARE LOOKING FOR A SECOND SUSPECT IN THE CONVENIENCE STORE ROBBERIES.
THERE WERE ONE THOUSAND, SIX HUNDRED FORTY-FIVE NEW CASES OF CORONAVIRUS IN YESTERDAY’S REPORT FROM THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, WHICH COVERED TWO DAYS. THERE HAVE BEEN A TOTAL OF NEARLY ONE HUNDRED FORTY-EIGHT THOUSAND CASES IN LOUISIANA. THERE ARE TWENTY-SEVEN MORE DEATHS, BRINGING THE TOTAL TO FOUR THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED SIXTY-EIGHT. THERE WERE TWO ADDITIONAL HOSPITALIZATIONS IN LOUISIANA AS WELL AS TWO MORE PATIENTS ON VENTILATORS.
ACADIANA HAD TWO HUNDRED THIRTY-FOUR MORE CASES OF COVID-NINETEEN, INCLUDING EIGHTY-TWO IN EVANGELINE PARISH. THERE WERE FOUR MORE DEATHS IN THE REGION. TWO WERE IN ST. LANDRY PARISH, WHICH HAS THE MOST TOTAL DEATHS OF ANY ACADIANA PARISH. IBERIA AND ST. MARY PARISHES EACH RECORDED ONE MORE DEATH. THERE ARE FIVE HUNDRED NINETY-FIVE PEOPLE IN ACADIANA WHO HAVE DIED FROM COVID-NINETEEN.
SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HAD ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-FIVE MORE CASES OF COVID-NINETEEN, INCLUDING ONE HUNDRED FORTY-ONE IN CALCASIEU PARISH. THERE WERE NO ADDITIONAL DEATHS. THE TOTAL REMAINS AT TWO HUNDRED EIGHTY-SIX.
