Storm Threat Halts Returns To New Orleans

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Mayor Orders Wednesday Evacuation

By Ceci Connolly
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, September 20, 2005; Page A01

NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 19 -- With Tropical Storm Rita bearing down on the Gulf of Mexico and growing political pressure from federal leaders, Mayor C. Ray Nagin said Monday that New Orleans residents could not return home after all and that any people already in the city should evacuate."