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...The city’s mayor, Ray Nagin, begged people to get away. He was reluctant to make evacuation mandatory because more than 100,000 people had no cars and no way of leaving....
...In August 2005, with hurricane Katrina just 20 hours away from crashing into New Orleans, then-mayor Ray Nagin ordered a mandatory evacuation of the city’s 1.3m people....
...New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin on Saturday ordered an evacuation of the city, the first since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, as Hurricane Gustav drew near...
...Ray Nagin, mayor of New Orleans, ordered a mandatory evacuation on Saturday and issued hyperbolic warnings about the looming threat. “You need to be scared,” he told residents....
...Ray Nagin, mayor of New Orleans, ordered a mandatory evacuation on Saturday and issued hyperbolic warnings about the looming threat. ”You need to be scared,” he told residents. ”You need to be concerned,...
...Ray Nagin, the mayor, cautioned that the city was “not out of the woods yet” but told the Times-Picayune newspaper that residents with their own cars could start returning to New Orleans as early as tonight...
...“I’m feeling better but we are not out of the woods yet,” Ray Nagin, New Orleans mayor, told CNN just after noon....
...Ray Nagin, mayor of New Orleans, left the Democratic National Convention to return to his city....
...Ray Nagin, the charismatic and sometimes controversial mayor of New Orleans, promised to work with his political foes to rebuild the flood-ravaged city after narrowly winning re-election for a second four-year...
...Mr Nagin, an African-American, has put race at the heart of his campaign, promising to rebuild New Orleans as a ?chocolate city? with a black majority....
...Second, the re-election of Ray Nagin as mayor in May ended months of uncertainty about who would occupy City Hall for the next four years....
...But that is what the city faces on April 22, when a bevy of challengers are aiming to dethrone Ray Nagin as mayor....
...Ray Nagin, the New Orleans mayor, said this week’s bill offered a “ray of hope” that would allow evacuees to “return home, rebuild their neighbourhood and begin to rebuild their lives”....
...“I’ve been as far as California,” says Ray Nagin, the incumbent mayor, who is seeking a second term. “No one has ever attempted an election like this before. We’re making history.”...
...While there are many in New Orleans who would be happy for its poorest and most troublesome former residents to stay away, Ray Nagin, mayor of New Orleans, visited Houston last week to persuade people to...
...Mayor Ray Nagin has been forced to travel across the US to persuade displaced people to return, after only about 70,000 of its previous 450,000 residents had done so....
...Mayor Ray Nagin left his evacuation order too late and hundreds of school buses that could have taken people to safety were left to flood....
...The commission set up by Mayor Ray Nagin to advise on rebuilding proposed a compromise – that all neighbourhoods be given four months to prove they have a future....
...New Orleans saw more traffic on Thursday than any time since Hurricane Katrina hit a month ago as Mayor Ray Nagin opened some areas, including the French quarter, to business owners as part of a staggered...
...Mr Bush has yet to find a voice in the crisis and Ray Nagin, the city’s Democratic mayor, was reduced to shouting obscenities at the absent federal officials....
...“I was unable to get [Governor] Blanco and Mayor Ray [Nagin] to work together.”...
...Ray Nagin, the mayor of New Orleans, has said the city’s death toll could reach 10,000. The official death toll remains at less than 100....
...Kathleen Babineaux Blanco and New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin failed to complete a mandatory evacuation, leading to hundreds of deaths....
...In the memorable words of Ray Nagin, the mayor of New Orleans, there were “too many frickin’ cooks”. The irony is that silos arise from the quest for efficiency....
...Ray Nagin, New Orleans mayor, on Thursday pleaded for urgent help in getting evacuees to safety. “This is a desperate SOS,” he said in a statement....
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