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I had laid out like an eight-week to ten-week timeline where we could get the city back in semblance of order. It's probably been pushed back another four weeks as a result of this,

It scared the crap out of me, ... I immediately said, `My God, I have to call a mandatory evacuation.'

I've got some firefighters and police officers that have been pretty much traumatized, ... And we've already had a couple of suicides, so I am cycling them out as we speak. ... They need physical and psychological evaluations.

He came off the doggone chopper, and he started cussing and people started moving,

I think Congress and the federal government don't fully understand the risk to this jewel of New Orleans, ... They spend billions on the Everglades and on the Big Dig in Boston ... yet our COASTAL EROSION ISSUES ARE REAL, but we haven't had the corresponding investment.

[Yesterday the broken city was filled with the noise of Blackhawk and Chinook helicopters and its still partly flooded highways were filled with rescue crews in flat-bottomed boats, searching those sections of the city still believed to have people living in them.] The sounds of New Orleans were jazz, people laughing, people eating a good meal, ... And now the sounds of New Orleans are helicopters and army vehicles. This is almost surreal.

He came off the doggone chopper, and he started cussing, and people started moving, ... I give the president some credit on this. He sent one John Wayne dude down here that can get some stuff done.

I'm going to announce a phased repopulation plan that is going to deal with some of the areas that were least hit by the hurricane and had less water, and then within the next week or two we should have about 180,000 people back in the city of New Orleans,

Get people to higher ground and have the feds and the state airlift supplies to them -- that was the plan, man,

The facts are that the 911 [emergency response] system will be up and operational this Wednesday, ... American Morning.

The facts are we have electricity in probably 60 to 75 percent of the city -- some sections even as high as 95 percent. The facts are we're repopulating the areas that had little to no flooding.

It scared the crap out of me, ... I immediately said, 'My God, I have to call a mandatory evacuation.'

Today I feel better about Rita, and I'm not as prone to do a hard, mandatory evacuation, ... But I want to leave that open as an option.

We anticipate that we could receive a storm surge of three to five feet. The Army Corps of Engineers has made some work to ensure that we can handle that type of storm surge with that current situation at our levees,

The strategy is to repopulate the city in the safest areas for now, to get enough critical mass so that the economics start to flow,

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