WWL First News with Tommy Tucker

We recap the Fed’s meeting and break down what the decision to cut rates means for the economy and for YOU with Bankrate financial analyst Stephen Kates.

Target, Amazon, Starbucks, UPS and more announced mass layoffs recently, which has some ready to declare a recession is imminent. But what's really going on in the U.S. economy? Here's analysis and reporting from economists, professors and hiring managers.

* Deuce McAllister on the Saints' undisciplined play

* People with some types of cancer living longer after getting COVID vaccine

* Eugene Green on the budget mess, power play from Gov. Landry

* A plan to fund SNAP? Should the state take over NO? Special session ending?

* Making sense of the complicated bond propositions NO will be voting on

* Many Louisianans go hungry. This is how Giving Hope helps

Tommy talks with Troy Duhon, the founder of Giving Hope NOLA, about keeping SNAP funded and helping those going hungry.

New Orleans will be voting on some bond propositions.

We talk with Becky Mowbray, the president and CEO of BGR, about what they are, what they would do, and what her organization thinks of them.

* We take our weekly deep dive into crime and policing in the New Orleans area with former NOPD chief Ronal Serpas

* We spend some time with Deuce McAllister talking about how this Saints season has gone, Rattler vs. Shough, and what he’s seen from Kellen Moore.

Spending some time with Deuce McAllister talking about how this Saints season has gone, Shough taking over, and what he’s seen from Kellen Moore.

Tommy talks with Ronal Serpas, Professor of Practice in the Department of Criminal Justice at Loyola and a former NOPD chief.

* People with some types of cancer are living longer after getting a COVID vaccine.

* Eugene Green on the budget mess in New Orleans