AI Is Answering 911 Calls in New Orleans — What Could Go Wrong?

You're listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avalone and Stephen Parr.This is the full show for August 11, 2026. We open with Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy breaking with President Trump over a new executive order reshaping childhood vaccine recommendations, and why Stephen thinks Cassidy has lost credibility to lecture anyone on "trusting the experts" after his record during COVID. In our Top 3 Things You Need to Know, we cover Orleans Parish Sheriff Michelle Woodfork's new oversight council for New Orleans jails, a Lafayette City Marshal's Office employee arrested for embezzlement, and a state audit finding most of Louisiana's weigh stations aren't operational, letting overweight trucks tear up local roads unchecked.We dig into New Orleans' use of AI to help handle overflow 911 calls and why we think that's a dangerous place to cut corners. We're Digging Deep on the Shreveport mayor's race, breaking down Tom Arsenault's path to reelection and whether fellow Republican John Paul Young's entry into the race helps or hurts him. Plus, Zoran Mamdani's crackdown on e-bike retailers in New York City, AOC's "woke one" versus "woke two" comments about fellow socialist Francesca Hong, and Minnesota AG Keith Ellison's praise for socialists pushing the Democratic Party to "debate ideas."We play a game of Say What with state-by-state alcohol consumption data, and close out the hour with the State Department revoking over 175,000 visas from foreign nationals arrested for crimes while in the U.S.