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Wind events or a storm surge events, the bottom line is the amount of rain that were going to get, not just today but the next several days is going to lead to beyond saturation in some of these places. it is 12 years to the day, general, unfortunately, they didnt have the sense to call you up at the beginning of katrina. they waited a couple days to activate you. it was 12 days to the day that this settled in, in new orleans. we do know that the president has signed a declaration of emergency f...

The public health domain. well see how that goes. >> when you look at it, are there some things that are good about this? its not during the school year. were better prepared than we were as general honore was saying since katrina. better coordination with the federal government. were no the worlds busiest area. >> correct. theres a lot of places getting hit by the storm that are sparsely populated. >> there are people that we cant find them who knows where. that will take a while to find everyb...

Order to the situation that was playing out on peoples tvs as mayhem, what we learned is that the level of coordination at the time was not as good as it should have been between fema and the military and the various organizations that were providing aid. do you think weve worked those types of things out now? >> this will be a lot better, but the challenge is going to be bigger. the national guard is large and in charge in support of the civil authorities there on the ground. theyve practiced t...

Concerned about the winds but the rain is the threat. the fact that its not moving and holding its intensity means that youre going to have these heavy rain bands for days on end. moving towards more populated areas as well. >> right. >> its about drainage and flooding and a lot of damage. well think about it -- >> with katrina, the real damage didnt happen right away. there was a latency with this it. thats the same situation with this. mold problems, drinking water problems. people got to thin...

Mobilized to come in and assist with search and rescue and high clearance vehicles. so expect more of them to be mobilized as well as the restraint were going to have, ali. this hurricane is going to stay around and prevent our helicopters. you know, within three hours after the eye of hurricane katrina getting in, they were in with the helicopters rescuing people. this will not happen for several days because helicopters will not be able to do search and rescue with these high winds because thi...

For days, this is much more complex and broad a problem where in katrina we had a concentration of 60,000 people inside the downtown and surrounding area of new orleans. this is dozens and maybe 40, 50, 80 miles wide up to 100 miles in diameter. this is a much bigger problem and people are going to be much more isolated than we had the issues in the new orleans because we had about 20,000 people at the superdome and about another 20,000 at the convention center with the remainder of them on the ...

Flood thag will being that will of the surge waters hitting the coast in the rural communities all along the coast of texas between corpus christi and houston. im concerned about the elderly and the disabled and the poor who didnt have the means to evacuate. i made the statement earlier today that i thought we should issue a more mandatory evacuation. i pray for the best but expect the worst. this water event thats going to happen out there the storm dies down will have the potential to leave a ...

Its mandatory or voluntary, its complicated in texas. it cant be the governor saying everybody out now. >> thats right. i spoke to the governor earlier today. he under scored this, this is up to the mayors an the local communities and the local communities are still apt sometimes not to do things like in other parts of the country because texans enjoy the idea theyre not told what to do. >> they do. i think thats going to be something to watch. as a matter of fact, the other thing were keeping a...