Flooding leads to rescues in Louisiana and Texas, with more rain on the way
May 18, 2021 2:37 PM CNN
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(CNN) Water rescues were underway Tuesday morning in Louisiana’s capital region after torrential rain that started a day earlier caused dangerous flash flooding in parts of that state and southeastern Texas.
Yet more rain is expected through Thursday in the south-central US, setting up moderate risks of further flooding in central Texas, southern Louisiana and parts of southern Oklahoma and Arkansas. More than 30 million people were under flash flood watches Tuesday morning, largely in those four states.
In southeastern Baton Rouge, rescuers were using boats to ferry people from apartment buildings and other structures surrounded by high water late Monday and early Tuesday, CNN affiliate WAFB reported.
Business owners try to fill jobs at a Saturday joint vaccination and job fair event
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BATON ROUGE - Employers are now dealing with a new crisis as the economy begins to rebound from the pandemic.
Some business owners say they re struggling with finding enough staff members. To remedy this, a joint job fair and vaccination event was hosted Saturday by the Louisiana Workforce Commission. The goal of the event was to fill jobs and get workers vaccinated.
LWC teamed up with Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome, State Senator Regina Barrow, BREC and Employ BR to bring the event to life. The job fair and vaccine site took place at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.
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Despite a statewide lift of the mask mandate in Louisiana, New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said the city is still requiring people to wear masks whenever they are in public.
Cantrell stressed the need for the city to reach herd immunity from the coronavirus. More than 40 percent of New Orleanians have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Roughly 35 percent of residents are fully vaccinated. Herd immunity comes when that number reaches 75 percent.
New Orleans COVID-19 test percent positivity rate remains low at 0.8 percent. But the COVID-19 New Orleans dashboard is reporting an infection rate of 1.03 percent. When the infection rate is greater than 1, the risk of transmission rises greatly.