Don Peritz Quotations

He wasn't lost in the system. We knew he was here ... we hold them until the judge says to hold him no longer.

He could hear people calling for help, but he couldn't even see them.

Some of them suffered from smoke inhalation, but they were concerned for their fellow bus passengers.

It depends on where the investigation takes us.

You have thousands of people who are in their vehicles trying to escape.

We don't want them to feel like it's a jail.

This is certainly as grim as it gets. What makes this unusual is that we're in the middle of this devastating hurricane. So, one of our big concerns is trying to remove the bus to get the freeway clear and get traffic flowing.

There was heavy smoke and a lot of confusion and very elderly persons laying on the roadway -- eighties, mid-eighties, nineties.

Deputies were unable to get everyone off the bus. We believe it's going to be closer to 20 fatalities.

It was a combination of information garnered from the criminal investigation from day one and information that they were able to pull from the civil transcripts.

All evacuees from North Texas come here first. We're letting them have a bathroom break, running them through metal detectors and going through belongings.