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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 battery by shooting in the area around 11:13 p.m. in the 600 block of Opelousas Avenue.  Police said th...

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, with RTA2 coming online October 10 and the identical RTA1 put into service December 15. Both ferries, b...

RTA1, the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority's 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. he's from new orleans. i'm from baton rouge. you take the ferry over or the bridge. there's two sets of levees, an old levee and a new levee. it's topped the old levee and it looked like it's going to top the new levee. this is about 90 miles downriver from the morganza swillway. algiers point. that's what everyone knows. since we're talking about that now, let's bring in general russel honore. if the water is already high here, what is going to happen when it comes down from the morganza? >> you know, that ...

swollen levee system, a taxed levee system, and they don't know if it's going to hold even with this. they're 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 can't 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 to the players. ed lavendera on the ground. he'll join us in a second. look at inflooding. this...