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U.S. carries out strikes on Iran Trump blames Tehran for downing Army helicopter
BY JON GAMBRELL, KONSTANTIN TOROPIN and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The U.S. military said Tuesday that it carried out strikes on Iran following the crash of an Army helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz that President Donald Trump blamed on the Islamic Republic.
U.S. Central Command said on social media that the strikes would be “a proportional response to unjustified Iranian aggression.” Iranian state media reported that explosions were heard on Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz, a critical shipping lane that Iran has effectively closed during the war, before saying that the wave of American attacks in the south has “subsided.”
President Donald Trump talks with reporters before boarding Air Force One at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New york early Tuesday.
Trump said earlier in a social media post that Iran had shot down the aircraft while it was on patrol over the strait and declared that the U.S. “must, of necessity, respond to this attack.” Iran’s top diplomat said foreign military forces near its territory “are at constant risk” and later vowed that there would be a response to
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ä See STRIKES, page 11A
‘FEMA IS READY’
S&WB to inspect rusting pump station parts this year Utility lacks money for repairs
BY BEN MYERS Staff writer
would be prepared to respond to a hurricane or tropical storm. “There’s really been no change in our authorities or how the cities access resources,” Fenton said following a meeting of emergency officials from across the Gulf Coast at the Higgins Hotel. The role of FEMA in disaster response has been a high-stakes open question since President Donald
The Sewerage & Water Board will inspect years of corrosion at a Lakeview drainage pump station later this year, though officials say they don’t have the $12 million, at minimum, that is needed to replace the rusty equipment. At issue are three rusting, bell-shaped pipes at Drainage Pump Station 7 that the agency has fretted over since at least 2012. The ends of the discharge bells must remain submerged in the Orleans Canal for the pumps to operate, and S&WB officials are worried that advancing corrosion will make it impossible to keep them underwater. What they don’t know is just how far the pipes’ edges have receded. They’ll find that out by taking the station offline, lowering the canal and taking measurements of the pipes when the city sees drier weather later this fall or winter. That process will take one or two days, S&WB General Superintendent Kaitlin Tymrak told a City Council committee Tuesday. The pump station, which drains parts of Lakeview and Mid-City and helps channel stormwater from the Central Business District and Treme, is just one of seven stations with steel pipes that need inspections, she said. “It’s not just a problem at DPS 7. It’s the one
ä See FEMA, page 9A
ä See S&WB, page 7A
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Robert J. Fenton Jr., acting FEMA administrator, holds a news conference with officials after the 2026 Gulf and Atlantic Hurricane Summit at Higgins Hotel on Tuesday.
Officials say no changes expected in hurricane response BY SOPHIE KASAKOVE Staff writer
Flanked by local leaders, officials with the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Tuesday sought to assure New Orleans-area residents that it stands ready to assist should disaster strike this hurricane season, after a year of staffing cuts and shifting federal priorities. “The bottom line is: FEMA is ready,” said Robert Fenton, the acting FEMA
administrator, at a news conference in New Orleans on Tuesday. “We remain committed to being a reliable partner when state and local capacity is exceeded, helping communities across the country when they need support.” The message appeared as an answer to recent questions from some officials and advocates about whether FEMA — rattled by job cuts, funding uncertainty and earlier proposals to eliminate the agency entirely —
Inmates’ families left in dark after Louisiana prison deaths Failed legislation would have created reporting system
Center. More than six months later, she’s still searching for answers. Eight months after detectives told them their son died at the West Baton Rouge Parish Detention Center, Charlene and Henry Henderson say they have learned BY AIDAN McCAHILL more about it from watching the Staff writer local news than from public offiJahane Draper says she learned cials. through social media that her son Monica Lafayette recalls the died at Elayn Hunt Correctional excruciating two weeks she had
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to wait to see her daughter’s body, and the bruises she saw when she finally viewed her. The questions for Lafayette — whose daughter was in East Baton Rouge Parish Prison — have stretched on for more than 10 months. In Louisiana, there is currently no uniform, statewide system for reporting deaths in custody. Many families of inmates who died say they are forced to fight for basic
information, disrupting an already arduous grieving process. Some wait months for just a death certificate. “You play it in your mind, trying to figure out what happened,” said Jehane Draper. “Because we don’t know what happened … your mind tends to go here, tends to go there, your mind is never at rest.” State Rep. Candace Newell, a New Orleans Democrat, sponsored
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a bill that failed this past legislative session that aimed to establish basic reporting requirements for deaths in custody. “Families have been left in the dark at the very moment they are grieving the most,” she said. The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, which declined an interview, has argued
ä See PRISON, page 6A
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