For three hours Wednesday there was no let up. Over 200 protesters shouting at City Hall trying to block a landfill in New Orleans east.

They say it's too close to the Village De L'est Subdivision which they have fought to rebuild.

After a one hour closed door meeting with the community priest...and the head of theSCLC...Mayor Ray Nagin came down to talk with the protesters.

He drew cheers when he told them he would shut down the landfill for 72 hours...while two areas are explored.

  He will now examine whether waste being dumped is toxic. He also asked that the group help him lobby the Army Corps of Engineers to allow trash to be hauled at night to landfills outside the area.