Terry Ebbert
Terry Ebbert
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To the best of our ability, we have thoroughly searched this city and dealt with those individuals who wanted to be evacuated.
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There are gangs of armed men in the city moving around the city.
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Beginning Saturday, we will be on the path of bringing New Orleans back. We feel it's vitally important for this city to stay alive, for commerce to start moving in the right direction.
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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.
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This is a national disgrace. FEMA has been here three days, yet there is no command and control. We can send massive amounts of aid to tsunami victims but we can't bail out the city of New Orleans.
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There are hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of breaks. No water pressure, you can't run the sewer system.
We're going to be at this a long time.
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Monday we knew what we needed by numbers. We told FEMA we needed to move 30,000 people. Now we're just rolling on number 30,000. This should have been five days ago.
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Some of the catastrophic deaths some people have predicted may not have occurred. The numbers, so far, are relatively minor as compared with the dire predictions of 10,000.
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Some of them, it was their last night on Earth. That's a hard way to learn a lesson.
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I think there's some encouragement in what we've found in the initial sweeps that some of the catastrophic deaths that some people predicted may not have occurred.
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I think there's some encouragement in what we've found in the initial sweeps. Numbers so far are relatively minor as compared to the dire projections of 10,000.
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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.
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We're going to face a crisis in the very near term.