9-14-20
HURRICANE LAURA DEBRIS WILL BE PICKED UP TODAY. CAROLINE MARCELLO HAS THE DETAILS.
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CONVOY OF HOPE IS A FAITH BASED HUMANITARIAN ORGANIZATON THAT HAS BEEN ON THE GROUND IN LAKE CHARLES HELPING IN THE AFTERMATH OF HURRICANE LAURA FOR TWO WEEKS. PASTOR PAUL BURKE OF GLAD TIDINGS CHURCH IN LAKE CHARLES SAYS CONVOY OF HOPE STILL NEEDS VOLUNTEERS. HE EXPLAINS WHAT VOLUNTEERS CAN EXPECT.
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TO VOLUNTEER OR GET MORE INFORMATION, EMAIL HURRICANE LAURA AT CONVOY OF HOPE-DOT-ORG.
Storm-weary Gulf Coast residents are preparing for a new weather onslaught as Tropical Storm Sally churns northward. Forecasters from the National Hurricane Center in Miami said Sally is expected to become a hurricane on Monday and reach shore by early Tuesday, bringing dangerous weather conditions including risk of flooding to a region stretching from Morgan City to Ocean Springs, Mississippi. Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards urged people to prepare for the storm immediately. He also said there are still many from southwestern Louisiana who evacuated from Hurricane Laura into New Orleans — exactly the area that could be hit by Sally.
SOME RESIDENTS BETWEEN RIDGE AND DUHON ROADS IN LAFAYETTE LOST WATER FOR PART OF YESTERDAY. THE SUPERINTENDENT OF WATERWORKS DISTRICT SOUTH SAYS SOME WORK CREWS BROKE A WATER LINE. WATER PRESSURE WAS RESTORED BUT A BOIL WATER ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED OUT OF PRECAUTION. THE ADVISORY WILL BE LIFTED WHEN THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HOSPITALS COLLECTS WATER SAMPLES AND DETERMINES IT IS SAFE.
HOSPITALIZATIONS FROM COVID-NINETEEN CONTINUE TRENDING DOWNWARD IN LOUISIANA. THERE WERE SIXTEEN FEWER PATIENTS, ACCORDING TO THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, MOVING THE TOTAL DOWN TO SIX HUNDRED SIXTY-FOUR. THERE ARE TWO FEWER PATIENTS ON VENTILATORS. THERE ARE SEVENTEEN MORE DEATHS IN LOUISIANA. THERE WERE FOUR HUNDRED NINETY-TWO NEW CASES, MOVING THE OVERALL TOTAL JUST SHORT OF ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-EIGHT THOUSAND.
ACADIANA HAD SIX MORE DEATHS FROM COVID-NINETEEN. FIVE WERE IN LAFAYETTE PARISH AND THE OTHER ONE WAS IN ST. MARTIN PARISH. LAFAYETTE PARISH HAS SURPASSED ST. LANDRY PARISH FOR THE MOST IN ACADIANA WITH ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-ONE. THERE ARE FORTY-TWO NEW CASES, INCLUDING NINETEEN IN LAFAYETTE PARISH. THE OVERALL TOTAL IS NOW OVER TWENTY-FOUR THOUSAND, EIGHT HUNDRED.
SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ADDED TWO MORE DEATHS FROM COVID-NINETEEN. THEY BOTH CAME FROM CALCASIEU PARISH. THERE ARE JUST FOURTEEN MORE CASES IN THE REGION. NINE WERE FROM CALCASIEU PARISH.
FIVE PEOPLE WERE SHOT AT A HOOKAH LOUNGE ON MAIN STREET IN ST. MARTINVILLE AROUND ELEVEN SATURDAY NIGHT. POLICE CHIEF RICKEY MARTIN SAYS IT BEGAN WHEN SOMEONE ACCIDENTALLY STEPPED ON ANOTHER PERSON’S FOOT. HE SAYS THAT LED THE PERSON WHO WAS STEPPED ON TO SHOOT AT THE OTHER PERSON AND THEN MULTIPLE PEOPLE PULLED THEIR GUNS AND BEGAN SHOOTING. MARTIN SAYS FIVE PEOPLE SUFFERED NON-LIFE THREATENING WOUNDS AND THE LOUNGE IS BEING INVESTIGATED AS TO WHY IT WAS OPEN UNDER COVID-NINETEEN RESTRICTIONS.
