Home in the Dome: a lease agreement is finalized that the Superdome will be the Saints home base until 2035

This hour, Newell has on Michael Hecht, President & CEO of GNO Inc., to talk about Gov. Jeff Landry and Saints owner Gayle Benson finalizing a lease agreement that guarantees the Saints will remain based at the Caesars Superdome through 2035, and other good news. Then, Branko Kerkez, Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan, and Crystal Bergemann, Senior Manager of Disaster Resilience at Verizon, join the show to discuss an exciting new initiative. The City of New Orleans, Verizon, United Way of Southeast Louisiana, and climate-tech company Hyfi have partnered to launch a flood sensor initiative that uses Verizon’s 5G network to deliver real-time information about street flooding.