WWL First News with Tommy Tucker

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WWL First News with Tommy Tucker episodes

February 23 Bank On It: Making sense of the dollars and cents of tariffs
Bank On It, financial insights you can count on with Jason Shields, the COO of Gulf Coast Bank & Trust
10 min
February 23 How is the Trump administration handling Iran?
We’ll talk with Bruce Jentleson, Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at Duke University, about the talks with Iran and what could happen if the US conducts a military strike against Iran.
13 min
February 23 "Absolute chaos": What happens if Trump ignores the Supreme Court ruling on tariffs
The Supreme Court struck down President Trump’s tariffs. We’ll break down the ruling and the new order the president is signing to keep tariffs in place with Loyola law professor Dane Ciolino.
9 min
February 23 LSU baseball keeps rolling! How the Tigers got to 8-0
We recap LSU baseball’s weekend games and how Kim Mulkey and her team are positioned for the postseason with WWL.com columnist Jeff Palermo.
11 min
February 21 BONUS: Great white shark sightings, understanding our brains, year of the Fire Horse and the Old Farmer's Almanac
On this week’s agenda, we’ve got a surprise Great White shark sighting from WWL Radio in Louisiana and exploration about what’s going on in our brain when we hesitate from KCBS Radio in San Francisco. Then, we’ll listen in on a discussion of the dawn of the Fire Horse year with the Lunar New Year this week from the Dana and Parks Show out of KMBZ in Kansas City and take a trip to the Old Farmer’s Almanac headquarters with Own the Road with Kelli and Bob out of KRLD 1080 in Dallas.
22 min
February 20 Full Show 2-20-26: Louisiana seafood, Pope Leo, and more
1 hr 26 min
February 20 Hour 4: Tet fest, food recs, and Olympic updates
* Where and what to eat around the New Orleans area
* How the US is doing at the Winter Olympics
* Tommy's Weekend Winners
29 min
February 20 Hour 3: Redeveloping the Municipal Auditorium and UNO preparing future engineers
* New Orleans leaders have started the process for a master plan to redevelop the Municipal Auditorium. We’ll go over it with Jackie Harris, the President of the Save Our Soul Coalition
* National Engineers Day is next week, and UNO has a couple exhibits and events on tap. We’ll get the details from Kim Jovanovich, a professor of engineering.
21 min
February 20 Thursday was a great day for the US at the Winter Olympics
We go live to Milan, Italy for another Winter Olympics update with CBS correspondent Kelly O'Grady.
5 min
February 20 Hour 2: How Pope Leo is doing and taking care of your heart
* How has Pope Leo’s papacy gone so far? How has he been approaching things? Has it been a change from Pope Francis? We’ll break it down with Father Arthur Purcaro, an Augustinian friar who worked with Pope Leo before he was Pope Leo
* February is American Heart Month. Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the US. What are the risk factors? How can you treat it? We’ll talk with Dr. Mehnaz Rahman from LSU Health New Orleans.
20 min