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The theme is “There’s no place like homecoming,” and there’s no place like LSU during Homecoming Week. Gear up for an eventful week across campus and Baton Rouge.

A sewage treatment facility malfunctioned, causing sewage to flood in neighborhoods by the plant near Gardere Lane. 

>> and you said the worst is likely yet to come for baton rouge. how bad could this be? >> well, you know, of course we can only speculate. but right now, as i said, we have some strong winds. it is a wind event for baton rouge. we do expect heavy rain, and the worst time for our community is expected from now until about 3:00 a.m. early tomorrow morning. so we just want everyone to hunker down, stay in place, and i believe that our citizens, as we often say, are red stick ready. >> they've been through hurricanes before, but this is especially powerful and packing a very powerful punch. as yo...

We have been sending out a message of preparation for quite some time. we don't want people to take this for granted. we want them to have their response in place for the next three -- supplies in place for the next three days and make sure they secured their home and that they have a plan for their family as well. arthel: with an anticipated 16-foot storm surge, can you tell us, mayor, do you know if most of the residents of baton rouge if they evacuated or did many of them stay behind? >> so many of our residents did stay. some did evacuate. we did not have a mandatory evacuation right now. ...

That we had a strong majority of our people or should i say a strong percentage of our people that did remain in baton rouge and are certainly practicing what we call being red stick ready. as you know, baton rouge is known as the red stick, and we certainly encourage our citizens to be red stick ready. >> during hurricane katrina, so many people fled to baton rouge, it became the largest city in louisiana temporarily. how many evacuees are you anticipating this time? >> well, many of the individuals who left new orleans went through baton rouge this time onto other areas such as north louisia...