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Fat Tuesday typically brought in about 1 million people. Hotels were at 90 percent capacity, according to Mary Beth Romig, spokeswoman for the New Orleans Metropolitan Convention and Visitors Bureau. A shooting along St. Charles Avenue, where first Zulu, then Rex -- the old-line krewe that claims the king and queen of Carnival -- and the seemingly endless truck float parade roll throughout the day, sent at least seven people to the hospital with what police described as non-life-threatening injuries.