It is vitally important for this city to stay alive, to start moving commerce in the right direction. But we have to do it in a progressive manner.
We're going to have re-entry for a 'look and leave' into the Ninth Ward starting on Wednesday into those areas where we don't have the large debris fields.
We're going to face a crisis in the very near term.
It's a very slow rise, and it will remain so until we plug that breach. I think we can get it stabilized in a few hours.
It's been a four-month struggle to get moving.
It is a department under a great deal of stress. I know you see some of those feelings coming out in how they act out.
The system didn't break down. The system just wasn't designed to handle something so catastrophic.
The people arriving on this side of the building are expected to fend for themselves. We have some water.
Today we are attempting with the federal government's assistance to gain control of all law enforcement agencies that have been provided.
That's why these people are going to be very uncomfortable.
