BATON ROUGE - Entergy is reported that more than a thousand residents in East Baton Rouge Parish are without power.

The outages are being reported near Government Street. According to the outage map, the outages were reported before 1 p.m.

Entergy said due to extensive damage, more crews are working to restore power as soon as possible. Right now, the company says power should be back by 3 p.m.

Southern University and the Southern law school are closed due to the outage.

Due to a power outage in the area, SUBR and @SouthernULaw are closed today. Residential halls and resident services are not affected.

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