Almost 2 million residents along the Lousiana coast have evacuated the region as Hurricane Gustav is expected to hit today. After his mandatory evacuation of New Orleans, Mayor Ray Nagin revealed he would be staying in the city, sleeping in City Hall. Nagin also warned, "Looters will go directly to jail. You will not get a pass this time. You will not have a temporary stay in the city. You will go directly to the......

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin ordered the mandatory evacuation of the city for Sunday morning--the West Bank by 8.a.m. and the East Bank by noon. According to The Times-Picayune, Nagin called Gustav "the mother of all storms...We want 100 percent evacuation. It has the potential to impact every area of this metropolitan... This is worse than a Betsy, worse that a Katrina... You need to be scared and you need to get your butts......