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>> i don't want to panic you, but i want to make sure that you understand that there's a major hurricane that is in the gulf of mexico. >> we did have several people come up to us and say what are you doing? we're here for a hurricane. they said, oh, what hurricane? >> saturday august 27 is too late to start saying to your city that it is time to think about evacuating. >> my name's michael brown and i was the undersecretary of homeland security and the director of fema. >> we have had conference call after conference call with all of those governors including the mayor about how serious this ...

Gulf coast that was a different event. that was an act of nature. what happened in new orleans was a massive engineering failure and we have to always keep that in mind. >> we do. what happened in mississippi, towns were completely wiped out. >> we've seen our mutual friend rahm emanuel, who is trying very hard in chicago and other good mayors in philly, et cetera, you almost have to be at rock bottom, which gafs me great hope for detroit. i would see new orleans as the extent of the religious community, the church is very active, there is a multi-denominational, ecumenical, everybody pulls to...

like, what if, like, "titanic," like part two and we always look at the lifeboats and see, i wonder if there would be enough for everyone and just kind of joke about it, but now, you know, it actually happens. >> it was terrifying at the time, definitely. but, i mean, i don't know -- >> now that we're safe -- >> yeah. i'm just glad to be back on land. >> search and rescue teams are still in the waters trying to determine whether there are any other survivors or bodies that could be recovered from that wreckage. thus far, we understand that confirmation of five people have been killed...

This is another massive engineering failure. and some projections are right this is not just going to be a disaster in the gulf this is going to get into the gulfstream. >> and james -- >> i guarantee you one thing if it gets to the hamptons, somebody will do something about it. >> james, this story near and dear to my heart, too, i am from louisiana, my mom is in baton rouge, she is concerned about. this you bring up a good point you spent time with the governor today, being from louisiana, you know thor is veefity of that spill spill and what it means for the seafood industry, tourism indust...

A lot of folks are trying to say this is barack obama's katrina. is there any comparison? >> there's no comparison whatsoever between them. this was a corporate bungle. might be three or four corporations by the end of the day of a deadly magnitude. katrina had an engineering failure, the levees in new orleans, and this is also an engineering failure, and there's a connection there. but the obama administration has done nothing wrong. this has been british petroleum not having a plan a or plan b or plan c or plan d for coping with capping this. they are winging it. they are winging it as we sp...