LOUSIANA: Hurricane Gustav is moving fast in the United States and is within hours of striking New Orleans, city of Lousiana. The officials have imposed curfew in the city and are making all out efforts to shift the people to safer places.Nearly two million people fled the Louisiana coast on Sunday.Long lines of cars and buses streamed out of New Orleans after Mayor Ray Nagin ordered mandatory evacuation of the city of 239,000.Nagin warned anyone who defied evacuation orders they would face extreme danger, saying travel trailers that had housed some of those displaced by Katrina might "become projectiles" in the hurricane-force winds. He laid down a dusk-to-dawn curfew and told looters they would be sent straight to prison.By most accounts, evacuations from New Orleans and other coastal cities were proceeding smoothly although traffic was moving slowly on clogged highways. More than 11.5 million residents in five states could feel the impact of the storm.
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