New Orleans to impose dusk-to-dawn curfew
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Sunday, August 31, 2008
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin says the city will impose a dusk-to-dawn curfew when the sun sets today at 6:23 p.m. local time.
"Looting will not be tolerated," he says. "We have double the police force, double the Nation Guard force we had for Katrina and looters will go directly to jail. You will not get a pass this time. As a matter of fact, anybody who's caught looting in the city of New Orleans will go directly to Angola -- directly to Angola. You will not have a temporary stay in the city. You go directly to the big house, in general population."
The city-assisted evacuation plan is due to end at noon, but Nagin says they'll continue relocating people out of the city until the middle of the afternoon.
He has asked members of the City Council to join key staffers to Baton Rouge, where they will set up a "governmental station" so "we can pass ordinances and government can continue to function."