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Man dead after shooting outside Algiers Point grocery store According to the New Orleans Police Department, the shooting was reported before noon in the 600 block of Opelousas Avenue. Author: WWL Staff Updated: 6:49 PM CST December 22, 2020 NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans Police Department confirms one man is dead after a shooting in the Algiers Point area of New Orleans on Tuesday. According to Fourth District officers, they responded to a call of an aggravated batt...

December 18, 2020 By Frank McCormack While 2020 and the fear of COVID-19 brought, for a time, the unforgettable sight of empty streetcars rumbling down the streets of New Orleans, the year ended on a high note for another of the city’s modes of public transportation: its passenger ferries. The New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (RTA) put a pair of catamaran passenger ferries into service during the fourth quarter of 2020, wit...

RTA1, the New Orleans Regional Transit Authoritys new 149-passenger ferry boat, passes Algiers Point on its way downriver for sea trials in New Orleans, La., Tuesday, July 10, 2018. Built by Jeanerette, La.-based Metal Shark to serve the Algiers Point-Canal Street ferry crossing, the $5 million, 105-foot Catamaran style boat features space for 15 bicycles, four wheelchair tie downs and two scooters. Advocate photo by SHAWN FINK

Jackson square, right. it points right across there? andreas is my executive producer. hes from new orleans. im from baton rouge. you take the ferry over or the bridge. theres two sets of levees, an old levee and a new levee. its topped the old levee and it looked like its going to top the new levee. this is about 90 miles downriver from the morganza swillway. algiers point. thats what everyone knows. since were talking about that now, lets bring in general russel honore. if the water is already...

swollen levee system, a taxed levee system, and they dont know if its going to hold even with this. theyre being inundated with water. people who have dealt recently with tornadoes just a couple weeks ago, and hurricane katrina and rita that hit the area and have done so much devastation to louisiana. you cant take your eyes off the pictures. imagine if this was happening in your community. this much water, knowing your homes, your hafarms, your livelihood would be flooding. wheler get...

swollen levee system, a taxed levee system, and they dont know if its going to hold even with this. theyre being inundated with water. people who have dealt recently with tornadoes just a couple weeks ago, and hurricane katrina and rita that hit the area and have done so much devastation to louisiana. you cant take your eyes off the pictures. imagine if this was happening in your community. this much water, knowing your homes, your hafarms, your livelihood would be flooding. wheler get...

when the levees broke. this neighborhood, though algiers point did not flood. they had wind damage and went through a hurricane, after all. but the water didnt raise here. yet this is still an american neighborhood that is surviving katrina in some ways. still surviving. we are here for a couple of days to see what surviving katrina still looks like here in this great place here in new orleans. the original name for what im standing is the calliope housing project. it then became the...

algiers point did not flood. they had wind damage and went through a hurricane, after all. but the water didnt raise here. yet this is still an american neighborhood that is surviving katrina in some ways. still surviving. we are here for a couple of days to see what surviving katrina still looks like here in this great place here in new orleans. the original name for what im standing is the calliope housing project. it then became the b.w. cooper housing project. it should be noted ...

as well as americorps. their good work goes on. were here to report it four years after the storm. were here to bring you a less welcomed story to light. we come to you as well, as the nation remembers senator ted kennedy. a live picture tonight of the casket bearing his body, reposing at the kennedy library, looking out over the sea he so dearly loved. we begin, however, tonight with breaking news. a story that is both miraculous and at the same time deeply horrifying and includes...

ethnici ethnicity, its remarkable. >> we expect these three guests will be back to spend more time with us. david gergen, ted sorrenson. thank you. anderson cooper with "ac 360." were at musicians village, surrounded by volunteers for habitat for humanity. their good work goes on. were here to report it four years after the storm. were here to bring you a less welcomed story to light. we come to you as well as the nation remembers senator ted kennedy. we begin, however, tonight wit...