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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 high-rise roads and stuff. this is going to be a much more complex search and rescue operation and w...

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. i'm concerned about the elderly and the disabled and the poor who didn't 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 that's going to happen out there the storm dies down will have the potential to leave a lot of people separated and as it was in case katrina, most of the people we lost died at home al...

It's mandatory or voluntary, it's complicated in texas. it can't be the governor saying everybody out now. >> that's 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 they're not told what to do. >> they do. i think that's going to be something to watch. as a matter of fact, the other thing we're keeping an eye on, ali, the relationship between the responders who are local, state and federal. in k...