Important Takeaways:
- California has declared a state of emergency for H5N1 bird flu amid fears that the virus could jump to people and start to spread.
- The move comes in response to a major outbreak of the virus among the state’s cattle which has spilled over and infected dozens of dairy workers.
- The announcement follows news that an individual in Louisiana was hospitalized with H5N1, becoming the country’s first severe case.
- The declaration of emergency gives California state and local resources to contain the outbreak, including hiring staff or issuing contracts for things like tests or personal protective equipment (PPE).
- Governor Gavin Newsom said the move would free up funds and ‘streamline and expedite’ the state’s efforts to tackle the outbreak.
- California has identified H5N1 in 645 dairy herds since its first detection in late August and nearly half of those were reported in the past 30 days, highlighting the rapid spread of the virus.
- Thirty-four of the US’ 61 human bird flu cases have also been in California
- Experts have described it as a pandemic ‘unfolding in slow motion.’
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Important Takeaways:
- Thomas Pressly, R-Shreveport, submitted the legislation after his sister, a Texas resident, unknowingly consumed an abortion pill after her husband put it in her drink.
- A person caught with the drugs without a prescription could face up to five years in prison and have to pay a fine of up to $5,000.
- But the law couldn’t be used to prosecute a pregnant person who holds the drugs for their own use, even without a prescription
- The bill began as an effort to criminalize giving someone abortion drugs without their knowledge, and the reclassification was later added as an amendment.
- The new law creates the crime of “coerced criminal abortion.”
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Important Takeaways:
- The center of Francine has passed over New Orleans and is dumping huge amounts of rain across Louisiana, southern Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle.
- Francine made landfall as a Category 2 hurricane at Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, at 5 p.m. local time yesterday and has since weakened to a tropical storm with sustained wind speeds of 35 mph this morning.
- More than 400,000 customers were without power in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, according to the PowerOut.us website.
- A storm surge warning is in effect from Grand Isle, Louisiana, to the Mississippi-Alabama border, meaning there could be life-threatening inundation from the sea.
- 14 million people are under flood warnings, with heavy rain and possible tornadoes expected through tomorrow.
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Important Takeaways:
- A truck driver found a 1-year-old alive in a ditch off an interstate highway in Louisiana this week, a day after the boy’s 4-year-old brother was found dead near the same freeway in what investigators think was a case of abandonment around the time tropical storm conditions hit the area, authorities said.
- A Louisiana sheriff, who says he believes the 1-year-old spent two days along Interstate 10, including while Hurricane Beryl or its weaker iterations battered the western Gulf Coast region with rain and strong wind – is praising the truck driver for seeing the child and stopping to pick up him up Tuesday.
- “This kid spent two days out in the weather on the side of the highway. … Thank God that trucker (saw) him.”
- Truck driver Reginald Walton was driving on I-10 when he saw something “to the right, over in the … embankment” ‘Hey, that looks like a baby,’” Walton, of Texas, told KADN.
- “Sure enough, there was a little boy sitting down the embankment there. As I approached him, he smiled at me, and then he stood up and started crying and walked toward me,” Walton said.
- The boys’ mother, a Louisiana resident, has been arrested in Mississippi and faces murder and other charges, accused of abandoning the children in Louisiana, authorities said Thursday.
- Walton, meanwhile, told KADN he didn’t feel like he was a hero. “I just feel it was God’s will for me to be in the right place at the right time”
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Important Takeaways:
- Every public school classroom in Louisiana has been ordered to display a poster of the Ten Commandments
- The Republican-backed measure is the first of its kind in the US, and governs all classrooms up to university level. Governor Jeff Landry signed it off on Wednesday.
- The state law requires that a poster include the sacred text in “large, easily readable font” on a poster that is 11 inches by 14 inches (28cm by 35.5cm) and that the commandments be “the central focus” of the display.
- The commandments will also be shown alongside a four-paragraph “context statement” which will describe how the directives “were a prominent part of American public education for almost three centuries”.
- The new law describes them as “foundational” to state and national governance. But opponents say the law breaks America’s separation of church and state.
- Similar laws have recently been proposed by other Republican-led states, including Texas, Oklahoma and Utah.
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Important Takeaways:
- Two abortion medications will become controlled substances in Louisiana after state lawmakers voted Thursday to send a bill to Gov. Jeff Landry’s desk.
- A person in Louisiana caught with mifepristone or misoprostol without a prescription could face up to 10 years in prison.
- Louisiana, which has one of the country’s highest maternal mortality rates, will be the first state to classify the medications as Schedule IV drugs.
- Vice President Kamala Harris called the bill “unconscionable” on X when it cleared the state House of Representatives on Tuesday.
- “Let’s be clear,” she wrote, “Donald Trump did this.”
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Important Takeaways:
- Second destructive derecho in a week slams central US with 100-mph winds, baseball-sized hail
- On Thursday, a derecho plowed across parts of Texas and Louisiana, blasting the Houston metro area with winds up to 100 mph that left at least seven people dead and more than 1 million customers in the dark.
- Cleanup efforts are underway across parts of the central U.S. after a destructive derecho blasted across Kansas with 100 mph wind gusts and baseball-sized hail, causing major damage and knocking out power to tens of thousands of utility customers across the region.
- This is now the second derecho in a week to blast parts of the U.S. On Thursday, a derecho plowed across parts of Texas and Louisiana, blasting the Houston metro area with winds up to 100 mph that left at least seven people dead and more than 1 million customers in the dark.
- Damaging wind reports stretch more than 400 miles across Kansas
- Millions of people from the Plains to the Midwest will be on alert for powerful thunderstorms capable of producing damaging wind gusts, large hail and possible tornadoes.
- The highest threat of severe weather will be found across portions of the Plains on Monday, but the potential for powerful storms will also have people in cities like Chicago, Milwaukee and Des Moines in Iowa on alert.
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Important Takeaways:
- A Louisiana man in the Bucktown area of New Orleans is in hot water with his neighbors due to his extremely bloody Halloween decorations.
- The decorations appear to show a beheaded Jesus, whose head is in the hands of Satan, looming over the yard while nuns and a priest stand nearby.
- One neighbor called it “appalling,” while another resident said, “In a word, it’s blasphemy,”
- According to Miorana, the display caused people to threaten his girlfriend about losing her job, so the pair eventually broke up.
- Despite the controversy, Miorana refuses to take down the decorations, per the ABC report.
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Revelations 13:16-18 “Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name. This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666.”
Important Takeaways:
- More Than Eight Million Americans Reportedly Behind on Rent
- 8,070,524 people ages 18 or older in the U.S. aren’t caught up on rent payments. Put another way, 13.17% of the nation’s adult renters live in a household that charges them rent and are behind on payment.
- Nationwide, 3,560,345 adults — 5.81% of adult renters — live in a household that doesn’t pay rent.
- The states with the largest share of adults behind on rent payments are New York, Nevada and Louisiana.
- Mississippi, West Virginia and Alaska are the states where the largest share of people live rent-free.
- Over the past year, 53.03% of renters across the U.S. saw their rent increase, while 36.91% saw no increase and 1.75% saw a decline. The majority of those who saw their rent payments jump reported increases between $100 and $249 a month.
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Acts 2:17 “And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams;
Important Takeaways:
- ‘Since Asbury, the Hunger Has Grown Even More’: Louisiana Revival Heads Into 19th Week
- Sources tell CBN News, it started on Oct. 16 at the Old Zion Baptist Church located northwest of Hammond on Highway 442.
- Brian Lester, Harrison’s assistant, told CBN News in an email there are signs of the revival continuing.
- “It’s only gaining momentum,” he said.
- Lester reported that over the last 19 weeks, more than 1,300 have been saved and countless other lives have been changed. He also credits the Asbury Awakening for making even more people want to experience a local revival.
- “Since Asbury, the hunger has grown even more in this area to see revival. We’ve never seen anything like it,” he told CBN News. “We believe what happened at Asbury and is happening in LA needs to spread over the entire nation.”
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