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JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Mississippi and Louisiana Attorneys General Lynn Fitch and Jeff Landry filed a joint lawsuit against three federal government agencies for what they feel are exorbitant flood insurance rates.  Other plaintiffs in the suit are from eight states, 43 parishes within Louisiana, two Louisiana towns, 10 levee, drainage, and conservation districts, the […]. Local Mississippi Breaking News Story from CBS 12 New WJTV, your Jackson, MS news leader

Louisiana's Attorney General Jeff Landry along with other parish officials throughout the state announced a lawsuit against FEMA Thursday morning.

Louisiana is gearing up to sue the Federal Emergency Management Agency over its Risk Rating 2.0 and its lack of transparency.

The immediate hours ahead? >> certainly power outage. this is certainly a wind event. the rain has not been an issue to this point. not saying it won't be in the future and you know our city is uniquely impacted by water with our geography so that's a concern. but i'm concerned about obviously structure damage but with the wind cascading power outage, looking at about 74,000 customers in our city without power right now and it continues to grow. so i'm quite certain that we will have widespread power failure for at least -- probably a significant amount of time. mike: so it's 16 years since hu...

There has to be another way. do not destroy everything that we have. >> what we do, we operate this as a system. but, you know, the bigger thing that we do is we go around, we talk to these folks face to face, and we stand shoulder to shoulder with the mayors, the local officials, and try to help them through it. what i've done in some of these communities, i've sent folks forward. i sent supplies, sandbags, pumps and all sorts of things. we're going to flood fight this as best we can with the local community, with the state, with the levee boards, with the national guard, and we're going to b...