The Latest: Tornado damages New Orleans NASA facility

An official at NASA’s Michoud facility in New Orleans says it suffered some damage during Tuesday’s tornado but the deep-space equipment being built there does not appear to be damaged. Steve Doering was there when the wind started picking up and says it sounded like a freight train coming down.

What’s it like to ride a robot shuttle bus that doesn’t have a driver?

The EasyMile EZ10 is an all-electric, fully automated — i.e., no driver included — shuttle that may someday join the fleet of New Orleans’ Regional Transit Authority. Transdev, the public transit management company that manages operations for the RTA, demonstrated the chubby, red, 10-passenger vehicle on Convention Center Boulevard on Monday morning , providing free test rides to the public.