Lights off, but New Orleans residents coming home

City and state officials tried to hold them off, but New Orleans residents would have none of it. After Hurricane Gustav brushed by the city, they wanted back in, and now.

So Mayor Ray Nagin relented and allowed the first of them to begin streaming in from evacuation on Wednesday.

But more than a million homes and businesses across three states were still without electricity and officials said it could take as long as a month to fully restore power.