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UPDATE - 12 a.m. Friday: Though showers and thunderstorms may continue into the night, the threat for severe weather and heavy rain has paused. Earlier activity used up most of the storm energy and it will take daytime warming and the passage of a warm front to recharge the atmosphere on Friday.
The National Weather Service has issued a FLOOD WATCH for East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge, Iberville, East Feliciana, Ascension, Livingston, Pointe Coupee, St. Helena, St. James, Tangipahoa and West Feliciana Parishes as well as, Amite and Wilkinson Counties until 7 a.m. Saturday.
UPDATE - 8 p.m. Thursday: The National Weather Service has issued a TORNADO WATCH for East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge, Ascension, Assumption, Iberville, East Feliciana, Livingston, Pointe Coupee, St. Helena, St. James, St. Mary Tangipahoa and West Feliciana Parishes until 3 a.m. Friday.
The National Weather Service has issued a TORNADO WATCH for East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge, Iberville, East Feliciana, Livingston, Pointe Coupee, St. Helena, Tangipahoa and West Feliciana Parishes as well as, Amite, Pike and Wilkinson Counties until 11pm Tuesday.
Smokers have a much higher likelihood of developing diabetes, one Mississippi expert reports. According to Amy Winter, Director of the Office of Tobacco Control at the Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH), smokers are 30 to 40 percent more likely to develop type two diabetes than their non-smoker counterparts. Smoking...