Why Nagin was reluctant to call for a mandatory evacuation? This could explain why he needed his lawyers...
http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/091804cckkWWLTVhurricane.12c61a467.html
Advocates for the poor are indignant.
"If the government asks people to evacuate, the government has some responsibility to provide an option for those people who can't evacuate and are at the whim of Mother Nature," said Joe Cook of the New Orleans ACLU.