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MSNBC

from http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26451955/ as at 0900 GMT

NEW ORLEANS - About a million people evacuated as Gustav roared into the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday after destroying homes and roads 
in Cuba, prompting authorities to declare a hurricane warning from far western Louisiana to the Alabama-Florida border.

Residents were ordered to flee an only partially rebuilt New Orleans on Saturday evening as the storm bore down on Louisiana 
nearly three years to the day after Hurricane Katrina wiped out entire swaths of the city and killed about 1,600 people.

Many residents didn't need to be ordered, with an estimated 1 million people fleeing the Gulf Coast on Saturday by bus, train,
plane and car. They clogged roadways, emptied gas stations of fuel and jammed phone circuits. New Orleans officials began putting
an estimated 30,000 elderly, disabled and poor residents on buses and trains for evacuation on Saturday. 

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CNN

"from http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/weather/09/01/gustav/index.html#cnnSTCOther1 as at 04:17, 1 September 2008 (CDT)

Story Highlights
 NEW: Hurricane Gustav maintains strength, likely to hit landfall midday Monday
 Louisiana governor: An estimated 10,000 still in New Orleans
 First day of GOP convention to be shortened because of storm
 Federal computer model says Gustav could cause up to $32.8B in damage

Hurricane Gustav began to lash the southern Louisiana coastline early Monday as it moved closer to an 
expected midday landfall, according to the National  Hurricane Center in Miami.

While forecasters said it could intensify a bit before moving inland, it will not likely be the Category 4 
storm that had been predicted -- a possibility that  added urgency to mass evacuation orders in recent days.

Nearly all of the roughly 2 million people in coastal Louisiana and the New Orleans area had cleared out ahead 
of Hurricane Gustav on Sunday night.

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