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Kenner Police swear in four new K9s and retires one [Video]
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Kenner Police swear in four new K9s and retires one [Video]

WELL SEE YOU RIGHT BACK HERE LATER ON TODAY. AND NOW ITS TIME FOR ANOTHER CHECK ON OUR FIRST WARNING WEATHER. WE ARE LABELING TODAY A WEATHER IMPACT DAY BECAUSE ITS GOING TO BE VERY, VERY HOT AND TOMORROW EVEN HOTTER. YEAH, THATS THE WAY IT LOOKS. WE HAVE AN EXCESSIVE HEAT WATCH IN EFFECT FOR TOMORROW. TODAY WE HAVE A HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT POTATO, POTATO. IF YOURE OUTSIDE IN THE AFTERNOON ITS GOING TO BE HOT. BUT LETS GET RIGHT TO WDSU FIRST. WARNING RADAR SCANNING THE SKIES LOOKING FOR RAIN AND FINDING A LITTLE BIT. NOT A LOT, BUT A LITTLE COUPLE OF SHOWERS THAT MAY AFFECT BAY SAINT LOUIS PASSING TO THE NORTH OF GULFPORT. HERES WHAT YOU WANT TO SEE. OR MAYBE YOU DONT WANT TO SEE IT, BUT THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT GRAPHIC WE HAVE IN THE SHORT TERM. THE CURRENT TEMPERATURE IS 89. IN SLIDELL, 88 IN HOUMA, 87 IN BATON ROUGE. AGAIN, WE HAVE THAT HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT THROUGH 7:00 TONIGHT. WHEN YOURE OUTSIDE TODAY JUST USE COMMON SENSE. TAKE IT EASY. DRINK A LOT OF WATER LEMONADE, WHATEVER. TAKE BREAKS. GET INSIDE TO THE AIR CONDITIONING. BECAUSE LOOK AT OUR CURRENT DEW POINT. ITS AT 80. THATS ABOUT AS HIGH AS THE DEW POINT GETS FOR US 86. THE CURRENT TEMPERATURE WITH A SOUTHERLY WIND AT SIX MILES PER HOUR. HIGH PRESSURE TO THE EAST, HELPING TO BRING US THAT SOUTHERLY WIND. OUR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TODAY. I THINK THE MAJORITY OF THEM ARE GOING TO POP UP IN ABOUT THE MID AFTERNOON AS WE GET A LAKE BREEZE DEVELOPING. ILL SHOW YOU THOSE COMPUTER MODELS HERE IN JUST A MINUTE. TROPICAL HERES TROPICAL STORM BERYL BEHIND IT. ANOTHER TROPICAL WAVE. AND THEN THERES ONE OVER THE YUCATAN THAT WELL TALK ABOUT HERE IN JUST A MINUTE. BUT BERYL ABOUT 3100 MILES OR SO AWAY FROM US, THATS JUST KIND OF A GENERAL BALLPARK DISCUSSION. HERES THE TROPICAL STORM ON THE SATELLITE VIEW. YEAH, IT LOOKS PRETTY WELL ORGANIZED. AND THE HURRICANE CENTER DOES BELIEVE THAT IT IS GOING TO BECOME A HURRICANE. AND OH, HERE WE GO. THIS JUST CAME IN LITERALLY TWO MINUTES AGO, 10 A.M. ADVISORY. I SWEAR TO GOD, I WAS JUST BACK IN THE OFFICE THREE MINUTES AGO. IT HADNT COME OVER. BUT NOW THAT FORECAST TRACK HAS A CATEGORY THREE HURRICANE. OBVIOUSLY, THIS IS PRETTY SIGNIFICANT. ITS GOING TO BE IN THE CARIBBEAN, AS WEVE SHOWED YOU MANY TIMES DURING THIS BROADCAST, HIGH PRESSURE CENTERED OVER THE SOUTHEAST PORTION OF THE COUNTRY AT THE UPPER LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE, PROBABLY GOING TO KEEP THIS SYSTEM TO THE SOUTH OF US, BUT STILL, HERE WE ARE. CATEGORY THREE HURRICANE, POSSIBLY BY MONDAY AT 7 A.M. THATS THE LATEST FORECAST TRACK. WERE GOING TO BE WATCHING THIS ONE, KEEPING AN EYE ON IT. HERE ARE THE SPAGHETTI PLOTS WHICH REALLY HAVENT CHANGED MUCH. AGAIN, ALL OF THEM KIND OF IN AGREEMENT. TAKING IT HERE INTO THE CARIBBEAN, POSSIBLY TOWARD THE YUCATAN. AND INTO MEXICO. BUT HEY, TROPICAL SYSTEM IN THE CARIBBEAN, ESPECIALLY NOW THAT IT COULD BE A CATEGORY THREE HURRICANE. TRUST ME, WE ARE GOING TO BE WATCHING THIS FOR YOU ON EVERY NEWSCAST. SOCIAL MEDIA, OUR WEBSITE, WDSU.COM. HERES ANOTHER SYSTEM THAT THE HURRICANE CENTER IS WATCHING. 40% CHANCE FOR DEVELOPMENT. THIS IS NOT GOING TO BE A FACTOR FOR US BEHIND BERYL, ANOTHER TROPICAL WAVE, 60% CHANCE FOR DEVELOPMENT OVER THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS. BUT ONE OF THE COMPUTER MODELS I SAW ACTUALLY HAS THIS TAKING MORE OF A RIGHT HAND TURN AND MAYBE BRINGING SOME WEATHER TO FLORIDA TODAY, 40% CHANCE FOR MID TO LATE AFTERNOON SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. I THINK WERE GOING TO GET A BIT OF A LAKE BREEZE BY ABOUT 3:00, HELPING TO TRIGGER SOME OF THAT RAIN. TOMORROW MORNING WELL START CLOSE TO 80 DEGREES. WE HAVE AN EXCESSIVE HEAT WATCH IN EFFECT TOMORROW. HIGH TEMPERATURE IN THE MID 90S. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS A BIT MORE NUMEROUS TOMORROW, WHICH IS A GOOD THING. I THINK IT WILL COOL YOU OFF FOR AT LEAST AN HOUR OR SO. HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT TODAY. PARTLY CLOUDY, 40% CHANCE FOR SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AS TODAY IS A WEATHER IMPACT DAY TONIGHT, THE SHOWERS SHOULD BE WRAPPING UP AT ABOUT 830 OR SO. AFTER THAT. PARTLY CLOUDY AND MUGGY. AND THEN TOMORROW A WEATHER ALERT DAY AS WE HAVE AN EXCESSIVE HEAT WATCH IN EFFECT RIGHT NOW. PROBABLY GOING TO BE UPGRADED TO AN EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING EITHER LATER ON THIS AFTERNOON OR TOMORROW MORNING. HIGH TEMPERATURE A DEGREE OR TWO WARMER THAN TODAY. ANOTHER WEATHER ALERT DAY TOMORROW COULD HAVE ANOTHER EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT MONDAY. WERE STILL GOING TO BE HOT TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. HIGHS IN THE MID 90S THROUGH THE EN

Upstate community reacts to Supreme Court ruling on outdoor sleeping [Video]
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Upstate community reacts to Supreme Court ruling on outdoor sleeping [Video]

People and organizations across the Upstate are reacting to the Supreme Court’s ruling on allowing cities to ban people from sleeping outdoors. ‘Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the opinion in the 6-3 decision released on Friday.”The Constitutions Eighth Amendment serves many important functions, but it does not authorize federal judges to wrest those rights and responsibilities from the American people and in their place dictate this Nations homelessness policy,” Gorsuch wrote.Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in her dissent, “For people with no access to shelter, that punishes them for being homeless. That is unconscionable and unconstitutional. Punishing people for their status is ‘cruel and unusual’ under the Eighth Amendment.”The case centered over the city of Grants Pass, Oregon, where the court sided with its anti-camping laws, stating the ordinances do not qualify as cruel and unusual punishment. The city’s ordinance allows homeless people to be ticketed for sleeping outside. According to documents, South Carolina was among 20 states that asked the Supreme Court to hear the case, but some people are pushing back against the judges’ ruling.Will Belt, a Spartanburg resident, said he was furious after hearing of the ruling. “How abusive it is towards the homeless people, trying to chase them off the public eye,” Belt said. He added he struggled with homelessness around a decade ago.”My dad had a reverse mortgage, lost the house. I had a job, and my back went out. Soon after, I lost my home, my job,” Belt said.Some city leaders across the country, like San Francisco Mayor London Breed, believe the ruling will help address their homeless situation. “We can’t continue to allow people to do what they want on the streets of San Francisco, especially when we have a place for them to go,” Breed said.The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development said people experiencing homelessness nationwide rose by 12% between 2022 and 2023.The Greenville Homeless Alliance said a similar trend exists in the Upstate.”We just got the numbers from Greenville County Schools, and it jumped again at the end of this school year by over 300 students,” Director Susan McLarty said.McLarty added that targeted investments could help some people who may be an unexpected bill away from being homeless.”We hope if we can rally the community around these targeted investments, we can prevent that, which is so much better on everyone,” McLarty said.As of Friday, it’s unclear if cities in the Upstate will propose similar anti-camping laws to cities on the West Coast.

New SCOTUS ruling impacts New Mexico’s homeless population [Video]
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New SCOTUS ruling impacts New Mexico’s homeless population [Video]

SEVEN NEWS. REACTION COMING IN OVER SUPREME COURT RULING ALLOWING CITIES TO BAN HOMELESS PEOPLE FROM SLEEPING OUTSIDE IN PUBLIC PLACES, EVEN IF THERE ARE NO SHELTERS AVAILABLE. JILLIAN POTTS IS LIVE IN ALBUQUERQUE, WHERE THERES A LOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW THE RULING WILL AFFECT THOSE LIVING ON OUR STREETS. JILLIAN. THATS RIGHT GUYS. SO CITY OFFICIALS SAY THEY WILL TAKE THEIR TIME IN DECIDING HOW THIS NEW RULING MAY SHAPE CITY POLICY. BUT ADVOCATES WHO WORK WITH PEOPLE LIVING ON THE STREETS SAY THEYRE WORRIED ABOUT WHAT THOSE DECISIONS MIGHT BE. I THINK WE HAVE JUST MADE IT A CRIME TO BE POOR, CHRISTINE BARBER IS AN ADVOCATE FOR PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS. SHE WORKS WITH PEOPLE ON THE STREET EVERY DAY TO PROVIDE RESOURCES AND HELP THEM. HOWEVER, SHE CAN. BARBER SAYS THIS SUPREME COURT RULING DOESNT SOLVE MUCH AND BELIEVES IT DOES MORE DAMAGE TO THE HOMELESS POPULATION. NOW WERE GOING TO DO WHAT? ARREST PEOPLE. FIND THEM THOUSAND DOLLARS, WHICH THEY CANNOT AFFORD TO AFFORD BECAUSE AGAIN, THEYRE POOR. RIGHT NOW, ALBUQUERQUE OFFICIALS ONLY REMOVE THE HOMELESS IF THEY ARE BLOCKING TRAFFIC AND DRAINAGE CHANNELS. BUT WITH THE HIGH COURTS RULING, KOAT LEGAL EXPERT JOHN ROYALE DA SAYS CITIES COULD FIND OR ARREST SOMEONE LIVING ON A SIDEWALK, PUBLIC PARK OR OTHER PUBLIC SPACE IF IT CHOOSES WHAT THIS IS GOING TO MEAN IS THAT CITIES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY, ESPECIALLY IN THE WEST, INCLUDING ALBUQUERQUE AND SANTA FE, IF THEY WANT TO HAVE THESE LAWS ON THE BOOKS THAT SAY YOU CANT SLEEP IN PUBLIC PLACES, ITS GOING TO BE CITY SPECIFIC. LOCAL POLICE AND CITY OFFICIALS CAN NOW PUT IN THESE BANS AND REMOVE HOMELESS ENCAMPMENTS WITHOUT QUESTION, WHAT THIS SAYS IS TO APD AND ALBUQUERQUE AND OTHER CITIES, ESPECIALLY IN THE WEST. THEYRE DEALING WITH THESE ISSUES THAT YOU HAVE THE THE BLESSING OF THE US SUPREME COURT. ADVOCATES LIKE BARBER BELIEVE MORE SHOULD BE DONE TO INVEST IN SHELTERS OR SUPERVISED AREAS. SHE WANTS THEM TO BE ACCESSIBLE ACROSS THE ENTIRE CITY, MULTIPLE OF THEM. EVERY SINGLE. EVERY SINGLE CITY COUNCIL, DISTRICT. BUT THATS NOT WHAT WERE GOING TO GET. THE PEOPLE OF ALBUQUERQUE HAVE LOST TODAY, AND THE PEOPLE ON THE STREET ARE GOING TO LOSE EVERYTHING AGAIN, WHICH IS WHAT IS ALWAYS HAPPENS TO THEM NOW IN A WRITTEN STATEMENT, THE CITY ADDS THEY HAVE INVESTED MORE THAN $70 MILLION TOWARDS HOUSING FOR PEOPLE WHO LIVE ON THE STREETS SINCE 2018. THIS SUMMER, THEY PLAN ON INVESTING AN ADDITIONAL $23 MILLION TOWARDS HOUSIN