WWL First News with Tommy Tucker

Tommy talks with Ronal Serpas, Professor of Practice in the Department of Criminal Justice at Loyola and a former NOPD chief, about how NOPD excels at policing Mardi Gras.

We go live to Milan, Italy for a Winter Olympics update with CBS correspondent Kelly O'Grady.

Hundreds of Louisiana restaurants have been cited for selling foreign shrimp without disclosing it.

We’ll talk with Samantha Carroll, the Director of the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board, about the problem and the importance of buying local seafood.

Tommy talks with Arthur Hardy, founder of the Mardi Gras Guide, about the parades tonight.

A landmark trial on social media addiction is underway.

We’ll explain what’s going on and what the larger impacts could be with Phil Napoli, Professor of Public Policy at Duke and author of Social Media and the Public Interest: Media Regulation in the Disinformation

Do attack ads and negative campaigning work? Or do voters hate it?

We’ll get into what the research says with LSU political scientist Robert Hogan, Professor and Department Chair of Political Science at LSU

Get the top three skills today's employers are looking for, plus answers to which drugs are a good deal on TrumpRx, and which ones you should buy elsewhere.

* The Krewe of Carrollton will identify agressive throwers, expel them

* What works and what doesn't when you have a cold or the flu?

* How NOPD handled aggressive throws incident, how officers feel about it

* Is Hollywood South in the middle of a renaissance?

* We just ended a partial government shutdown. Time for another one?

* Why are drug costs in the US so high?

* The Trump administration has rolled out TrumpRx, a website to sell some prescription drugs at a discount. We’ll get the details...and go over why drug costs are so high

* When you have a cold, the flu, or just whatever crud is going around...how do you treat it? What over the counter stuff works...and what doesn’t? And when should you go to the doctor?

* Riders from a float in the Krewe of Carrollton were removed after allegedly throwing beads at NOPD officers in an “aggressive manner.”

* Copper theft has been plaguing Jefferson Parish, and two men were recently arrested in a case that left four drainage pumps on the West Bank offline.

* You can help save horses used during Mardi Gras. We'll find out how with Jeff Dorson with the Louisiana Humane Society