State Senator Shane Wilkin (R-Hillsboro) announced that more than $11 million has been awarded to two career technical schools in the 17th Senate District.
the nwa s world television champion, tyrus. i m going to go to you first, tyrus. you are off for a while. tyrus: i was doing grown-ass man work. digging trenches, keeping generators going, hunting for gas. fun stuff. greg: that s my weekend. without the flannel and the chaps and the bells and whistles of what you do. we are okay. louisiana is okay. not so much because of the government help. fema needs to get their act together. the people. you saw a lot of the power line workers coming from all over. they re all gaining weight because they are just getting gifts of food and encouragement. that s the louisiana way. even though the power is still out in a lot of different places and fema is looking for a fraud instead helping families. greg: so climate change leads to obesity. another risk factor.
they facing that could hamper recovery efforts? reporter: it was four days ago that president biden was here in laplace, but the attention on this particular community cannot go unforgotten here in the weeks ahead. there are still hundreds of thousands of residents of the greater new orleans area without power, and ground support wise i have met power line workers from michigan, indiana, modesto, california, and i met one just yesterday, and this is day number nine of no power, no air-conditioning for so many. jim, you are just one of those residents. we came by your home this morning and you were sitting out on your porch trying to get fresh air. what time did you start yard work this morning? 6:30. you done for the day? yeah, it s hot. how long you have lived in
that tragedy, martin savidge has more on how the city is trying to pick up the pieces in the aftermath of the storm. reporter: things are looking a lot brighter in new orleans tonight, in fact entergy the power company says they have about 70% of the power restored to the city which means that they are on course to get just about all the city fired up again come wednesday. and it might even look like a normal night unless you look a little closer here at the median. normally you d have those street cars passing by. it is absolutely filled with all those first responder trucks, mainly power companies, tree cutting companies, all those people needed in a major american city getting it back online. in fact there are said to be about 26,000 power line workers that have come from some 40 states to help with the project here. but as much as they made success in new orleans, still a long way to go in louisiana. about half a million customers are still said to be without
have those homes elevated here. a lot of questions as to why did the water breach the levees and why did the water overtake this community? the water had to go somewhere when you see the surge capacity. if you look down the road here you can see the, number one, the energy workers, the power line workers, trying to get the electricity back here in this area. they re trying to clear out the road. there are folks trying to make it back to their homes. a couple pulled up in their pickup truck asking our team if they could get over the bridge down the road because they ve been unable to gain access over the corpse of the last week here. we re talking about not a storm that impacted folks for 24-48 hours but talking about a storm here that has left this area without power for at least several more weeks and of course we can only begin to barely understand the true impact on a community of 1,000 here long term. alex? it s never lost on me as well that the people, those guys working on the