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Morgan City Waive Permitting Fees Due to Storm Damage KQKI News [Video]
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Morgan City Waive Permitting Fees Due to Storm Damage KQKI News [Video]

For the next 60 days, starting from September 12, 2024, the city will waive permitting fees related to storm damage. However, homeowners, business owners, and contractors are still required to obtain the necessary permits to ensure the work is performed correctly and safely. Some Key Points to Remember: – **Permitting Fees Waived**: For 60 days,…

Liberty Bridge architect discusses its impact [Video]
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Liberty Bridge architect discusses its impact [Video]

CAMPAIGNING IN MICHIGAN AND NEW YORK THIS WEEK. 20 YEARS AGO, THIS MONTH, THE LIBERTY BRIDGE IN GREENVILLE OPENED FOREVER CHANGING DOWNTOWNS LANDSCAPE. AND AS WE CELEBRATE HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH, MIGUEL ROSALES, THE BRIDGES ARCHITECT, IS REFLECTING ON ITS IMPACT HERE IN THE UPSTATE AND HIS JOURNEY IN THE UNITED STATES. REY LLERENA SPOKE WITH HIM EARLIER TODAY. HE JOINS US LIVE AT FALLS PARK WITH MORE. RAY. NIGEL. HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE TAKE SELFIES AND CROSS THE LIBERTY BRIDGE EVERY DAY. BUT IT WAS THE VISION OF A GUATEMALAN IMMIGRANT THAT HELPED TRANSFORM GREENVILLES DOWNTOWN. FOR THE LONGEST TIME, THERE HAD BEEN A HIGHWAY COVERING THE FALLS. MIGUEL ROSALES, REFLECTING ON 20 YEARS SINCE THE LIBERTY BRIDGE OPENED AT FALLS PARK. HE WAS RECENTLY IN GREENVILLE TO MARK THE ANNIVERSARY. THE AFTERNOON OF THE DAY I ARRIVED, I COULD SEE SO MANY HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE CROSSING THE STRUCTURE THAT AFTERNOON AND IT WAS A VERY REWARDING EXPERIENCE TO SEE HOW ITS BEING USED. ROSALES IMMIGRATED TO THE U.S. FROM GUATEMALA IN THE 1980S BEFORE STARTING HIS OWN COMPANY. AFTER GRADUATING FROM MIT. HE SAYS THE MAIN FOCUS OF THE LIBERTY BRIDGE IS THE WATERFALL. WE DECIDED TO MOVE IT AWAY AND CURB IT AND BASICALLY CREATE LIKE AN AMPHITHEATER EFFECT, WHERE YOU ARE STANDING ON THE BRIDGE, YOU HAVE CABLES IN THE BACK, AND THEN YOU HAVE A COMPLETELY OPEN VIEW OF THE WATERFALL. ROSALES AND HIS FIRM HAVE GONE ON TO DESIGN DOZENS OF BRIDGES ACROSS THE U.S. I THINK BRIDGES ARE VERY IMPORTANT. STRUCTURES ARE THINGS THAT PEOPLE RELATE TO THEM VERY CLOSELY BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, BRIDGES ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. HE SAYS ITS HIS WAY OF SHARING A GIFT TO A COUNTRY THAT HAS PROVIDED HIM WITH SO MUCH OPPORTUNITY. IM VERY GRATEFUL, YOU KNOW, TO HAVE BECOME A CITIZEN HERE IN THE US. AND ALSO HAVING BEEN ABLE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE, I THINK EVERY TIME THAT WE BUILD A NEW STRUCTURE OR A NEW BRIDGE AND A NEW BRIDGE OPENS, IT CREATES A NEW MARK. RIGHT. I MEAN, THIS BRIDGE MEANS SO MUCH TO OUR COMMUNITY, SUCH A BEAUTIFUL LANDMARK. WHAT ELSE DID ROSALES HAVE TO SAY TO OUR COMMUNITY, TO THE COMMUNITY THAT HE HAS CHANGED SO MUCH? WELL, SYDNEY, HE HOPES THAT HIS STORY CAN SERVE AS AN INSPIRATION TO OTHERS IN OUR COMMUNITY, SAYING THAT IF HE HADNT MOVED TO THE UNITED STATES AND INSTEAD MOVED TO A DIFFERENT COUNTRY, THEN HIS CAREER WOULD HAVE MOST LIKELY NEVER HAVE HAPPENED. REPO

Causeway northbound closed starting Monday for inspections [Video]
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Causeway northbound closed starting Monday for inspections [Video]

DESTREHAN. AND NOW ITS TIME FOR ANOTHER CHECK ON OUR FIRST WARNING WEATHER. BUT TODAY, NICE AND SUNNY OUTSIDE. SO ITS A PERFECT DAY TO BE OUTSIDE. ITS SUNNY. ITS GOING TO BE WARM. ITS GOING TO BE A LITTLE HUMID. AND I KNOW THERE ARE STILL SOME PEOPLE WITHOUT POWER. WE WERE HOPING THAT THE DEW POINT WOULD BE A LITTLE LOWER. THE HUMIDITY WOULD BE A LITTLE BIT LOWER. THATS NOT REALLY WORKING OUT SO MUCH. UNFORTUNATELY, ITS STILL HOT OUT THERE. STILL PRETTY HOT. WERE STILL IN A SUMMERTIME WEATHER PATTERN, IF YOU WILL. SOME AFTERNOON SHOWERS ARE GOING TO POP UP FOR US STARTING TOMORROW. TODAY SHOULD BE MAINLY DRY AND WERE AT 78 IN BATON ROUGE. 81 OUR CURRENT TEMPERATURE IN BOGALUSA. WERE GOING TO END UP CLOSE TO 90 DEGREES IN MOST LOCATIONS, ALTHOUGH ITS A LITTLE MORE COMFORTABLE IN HOMA 73, THE CURRENT TEMPERATURE THERE 82 RIGHT NOW IN GALLIANO. HERE ARE YOUR CURRENT CONDITIONS AT LOUIS ARMSTRONG INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. DEW POINT AT 75. 81. THE CURRENT TEMPERATURE WITH WIND FROM THE WEST TO SOUTHWEST AT ABOUT SIX MILES PER HOUR. NOT GOING TO BE AN OVERLY BREEZY DAY, BUT THEYRE GOING TO BE RACING TODAY AT THE FAIRGROUNDS. ITS THEIR CLOSING WEEKEND AS FAR AS THE QUARTER HORSE MEAT GOES, AND THEY HAVE 13 RACES TODAY. ONE OF THEM HAS A HALF A MILLION DOLLAR PURSE, SO THATS A BIG DEAL. WEATHER SHOULD BE GREAT. TEMPERATURES IN THE MID 80S FOR THE FIRST RACE AT NOON BY 515, JUST ABOUT WHEN THE LAST RACE GOES OFF. SHOULD BE STILL IN THE 80S WITH MAINLY SUNNY SKIES. ALL RIGHT. THE CLOUDS THAT YOURE LOOKING AT IN THE RAIN, THATS WHAT USED TO BE FRANCINE. VERY DISORGANIZED RIGHT NOW. HOWEVER, SOME OF THAT MOISTURE MAY PLAY AN IMPACT ON OUR FORECAST STARTING TOMORROW. AND ESPECIALLY MONDAY AND TUESDAY. THIS COLD FRONT. AND TO CALL IT A COLD FRONT. BOY, OH, BOY, THATS A BIT OF A STRETCH, BUT ITS GOING TO BECOME STATIONARY STAY IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD. SOME OF THE MOISTURE MAY INTERACT WITH THAT FRONT. SO STARTING TOMORROW WELL PROBABLY HAVE A FEW SHOWERS IN THE AFTERNOON. BETTER CHANCE FOR RAIN. MOST LIKELY COMING MONDAY AND TUESDAY. ALL RIGHT. WE GO TO THE TROPICS RIGHT NOW BECAUSE THIS AREA OF CLOUDINESS VERY DISORGANIZED. AND I READ THE DISCUSSION FROM THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER. IT LOOKS LIKE ITS MOVING AWAY FROM THE UNITED STATES. IT ACTUALLY IS EXPECTED TO KIND OF DRIFT A LITTLE BIT MORE NORTHWESTWARD OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS, SO MAY BRING SOME RAIN TO THE CAROLINAS, BUT THAT DOESNT LOOK ORGANIZED AT ALL, EVEN THOUGH IT DOESNT LOOK ORGANIZED. HURRICANE CENTER REALLY BELIEVES THERES A 50% CHANCE FOR DEVELOPMENT OVER THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS. HERES OUR ONLY OFFICIAL TROPICAL SYSTEM. THIS IS TROPICAL STORM GORDON, BUT NO ONES TOO WORRIED ABOUT THIS ONE. YOULL NOTICE THAT ITS NOT REALLY GOING TO GET ITS ACT TOGETHER. REMAIN A TROPICAL STORM, AND ACTUALLY WEAKEN A BIT OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS, MAKING ITS WAY TO THE WEST. AND THEN THE NORTH. OTHER THAN THAT, TROPICS, THANKFULLY, ARE QUIET. HIGH TEMPERATURE TODAY IS GOING TO MAKE IT INTO THE UPPER 80S CLOSE TO 90 DEGREES. MATTER OF FACT, COULD BREAK 90 AT THE AIRPORT, 91 POSSIBLY IN HAMMOND AND YES, WELL GET A COUPLE OF SHOWERS, BUT THE CHANCE FOR RAIN OFFICIALLY AT 10% AND ANY RAIN TODAY I THINK IS GOING TO BE PRETTY LIGHT. NOW, TOMORROW MORNING, WERE LIKELY GOING TO HAVE A FEW COASTAL SHOWERS FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. YOU SEE THEM RIGHT THERE? NOTHING MAJOR THOUGH. I THINK THOSE SHOWERS ARE GOING TO BE FAIRLY ISOLATED. AND THEN THE CHANCE FOR RAIN IN THE AFTERNOON. THIS MODEL REALLY DOESNT SHOW IT THAT WELL, BUT ITS ABOUT A 30% CHANCE FOR SHOWERS, MAYBE EVEN AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM. BUT THE BETTER CHANCE FOR RAIN IS COMING FOR US MONDAY AND TUESDAY. AND EVEN THEN, I DONT THINK ITS GOING TO BE A SOAKING RAIN, JUST SOME SHOWERS POPPING UP IN THE AFTERNOON. MOSTLY SUNNY, 10% CHANCE FOR AN ISOLATED SHOWER TODAY. HIGH TEMPERATURES GOING TO BE IN THE UPPER 80S. CLOSE TO 90 DEGREES. RELATIVELY COMFORTABLE EVENING, ALTHOUGH A LITTLE BIT MUGGY FOR US TONIGHT. TOMORROW MORNING LIKE THIS MORNING. NORTH SHORE PROBABLY GOING TO WAKE UP IN THE UPPER 60S LOW 70S EVERYWHERE ELSE WITH A LIGHT WESTERLY WIND. AND THEN TOMORROW A 30% CHANCE FOR SHOWERS IN THE AFTERNOON. PROBABLY HAVE A FEW SHOWERS CLOSE TO THE COAST RIGHT AROUND DAYBREAK AND THE CHANCE FOR RAIN GOING UP A BIT MORE FOR US BY MONDAY AND TUESDAY. NOT TYPICAL SUMMERTIME BIG THUNDERSTORMS THAT ARE GOING TO PRODUCE OVER AN INCH OF RAIN. THESE SHOWERS ARE GOING TO BE ON THE MORE LIGHT TO MODERATE SIDE MONDAY. AND TUESDAY. CHANCE FOR RAIN GOING DOWN TO 30% ON WEDNESDAY AND BY THE END OF THE WEEK AND THE WEEKEND, I THINK ITS GOING TO GET JUST A TOUC