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With hurricane ike and rita. they have never seen even in those the flooding that they have today. so were still seeing evacuations, the flash flooding, the rescues over there. in our communities, we were plucking people from rooftops yesterday. today the water is receding. our focus is helping people in shelters, how to assessor that damage and what to do to take care of them. our focus continues to be on that. >> martha: no doubt. when you do return to washington or when this bill comes up, i ...

Be safe and thank you. >> thank you to all the volunteers that have come in, also, a part of the great big cajun navy. >> you know the work that needs to be done so lets thank collide kaine and the cajun navy. lets bring back thad allen, a former u.s. national incident commander who led the response in hurricane katrina and rita. coordinating disaster response. am i wrong in that? i dont remember the call going out so early. people are doing it early. unusual, isnt it? >> its a testament to the ...

Learned things from katrina. we learned things from rita, ike, the tropical depressions we have. most of the problems -- tropical storms we had a lot of flooding. we are as experienced as anybody in the country. one of the things, and the governor and i talked about it a few hours ago, now that you have first rescue, and we are still rescuing out. then you have rescue and recovery and then rebuilding. as we get people in shelters, as the fema man on the scene said the object is not for them to l...

Houston. do you think this mayor made the right call in having people shelter in place? >> yes. certainly people who are not in the direct hundred-year, 500-year flood plain and moreover, pointing out on rita, we only had a mandatory evacuation area for the storm surge area. wh happened and surveys who showed this the benefit of hindsight, is that ten times as many people evacuated at the same time because they witnessed what happened in katrina. so the idea of avoiding panic is, you know, a leg...

Terms of property damage the united states has ever seen. bigger than some of the likes of sandy, right now, katrina. a big hurricane that hit florida, share that dubious honor along with rita. because we are such a, you know, large metropolitan area. and theres going to be a significant percentage of homes including mine, i might add, that are under water. so this will be a very large undertaking. the key issue for people to watch though is then what is going to be the response of the federal s...

And city officials, the president, well get it done for done. >> patti ann: so many of these people have never seen a drop of water in their homes before. they have no flood insurance. definitely an uphill battle for many people. historically speaking, how would you see this compares to others? >> by far, i have ridden out a few, i came here in in the late 70s, each storm was different. allison, for example, was about a quarter or 30% of the city inundated with water. the medical center area. my...

Thank you for what youre doing. youre doing gods work down there. be safe and thank you. >> thank you to all the volunteers that have come in, also, a part of the great big cajun navy. >> you know the work that needs to be done. for weeks people will be down there in need. lets thank clyde cain, the cajun navy back at it again. unfortunately theyre needed once again. lets bring back thad allen, a former u.s. national incident commander who led the response in hurricane katrina and rita. and lisa...

Which is to put it in perspective, about the same amount of rain as you would normally get in a year in this area. >> you were there during rita and katrina. i think a lot of people understood why the evacuation happened with rita because you had just watched what happened with katrina. people felt like they learned lessons from rita in terms of how hard it is to actually evacuate a city the size of houston. do you think this mayor made the right call in having people shelter in place? >> yes. c...

Is, you know, a legitimate point. >> the infrastructure of the city seems at one level overwhelmed. as it would be. given the sheer amount of water. what is your sense of how bad this is going to be for the city of houston in long-term? >> first in american perspectives, it could be the largest natural disaster in terms of property damage the united states has ever seen. bigger than some of the likes of sandy, right now, katrina. a big hurricane that hit florida, share that dubious honor along w...

Forecast, but we knew his bed made epic rainfall maker. thats when we asserted to alert people. then we started to get on tv and radio answer to warn people, its a hurricane, its making landfall, but dont turn off your sets. the big story is the epic flooding afterwards. the challenge we have is we didnt have enough time, i fear, to warn people and i know theres the discussion about the mayor and whether he did the right thing. there wasnt enough time to evacuate. we would have had thousands of ...