It is a critical factor for us that we have no additional money.
I think New Orleans will probably be reduced from 480,000. I doubt if we'll have 350,000 people in this city in five years.
Some left because they simply couldn't handle the catastrophe.
There is absolutely no reason to stay. There are no jobs, there are no homes to go to, no hotels. There is nothing here.
We advise people that this city has been destroyed, it has completely been destroyed.
It's still ongoing, but we hope to have a conclusion within a few weeks.
There are, to our surprise, thousands of people still in the city that we're trying to identify and locate. We're trying to convince them there's nothing for them here no food, no jobs, nothing to let them live the way they're used to.
This isn't representative of our department. We had a lot of heroes that stepped up after the storm.
The investigation does in fact show police officers with some items.
That has posed some problems with people talking over each other. We probably have 20 agencies on one channel right now.
