Two views of the hall of the Xcel Center in St. Paul, Minnesota on the Saturday before the scheduled start of the Republican National Convention, as work crews from the trades and media made final preparations for the event.
Earlier this evening the New York Times issued the following news alert:
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Mandatory Hurricane Evacuation Is Ordered in New Orleans"
City officials ordered everyone to leave New Orleans beginning Sunday morning -- the first mandatory evacuation since Hurricane Katrina flooded the city three years ago -- as Hurricane Gustav grew into what the city's mayor called "the storm of the century" and moved toward the Louisiana coast.
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Gustav may well delay the beginning of the convention.
Saturday, August 30, 23:45 CDT
