More rain soaks north Louisiana, the SE part awaits the same

BOSSIER CITY, La. (AP) — A thousand people were forced to leave their homes early Thursday as a second round of unusually heavy rain hit an already inundated northern Louisiana. The southern part of the state was bracing for heavy rain later in the day.
Sixteen Louisiana parishes have declared a state of emergency, and the National Guard was sent in to help.
In Bossier City — across the Red River from Shreveport — some 3,500 homes were under a mandatory evacuation as a precauti