"It's time for us to come together. It's time for us to rebuild New Orleans -- the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans."

The homicide total for the first 50 days of 2007 climbed to 27 on Saturday with the death of a man shot Friday at a nightclub.

Nine people shot in separate incidents in a seven-hour span on Thursday and Friday - three of those are now dead.

So, again I ask, Mayor Ray Nagin how is that chocolate city doing?

Read the article by Jeff Franks at Reuters