There has been a huge development overnight ... the historic French Quarter, dry last night and it is now filling with water. This is water from nearby Lake Pontchartrain; the levees failed overnight. |
there is no specific, credible intelligence information indicating that an attack in the United States is imminent. |
there would be overflow from the levee, maybe a small break in the levee. The collapse of a significant portion of the levee leading to the very fast flooding of the city was not envisioned. |
There'll be plenty of time, |
There's no question that at least a medium-term, if not a long-term, challenge is for us to settle on a final location for the department. |
There's no question that with the addition of National Guard and regular troops we've secured the city, |
There's not enough time to answer the first part of your question, |
These are not people who are larger than life. They took advantage of the fact that something that was unthinkable on September 10 became, unfortunately, all too thinkable on September 11. |
These grants provide an-other layer of security to help protect ports from terrorism, safeguard nearby communities and ensure the uninterrupted flow of global commerce, |
This 30-minute seating rule was a sensible measure when first applied, ... Now, almost four years later, significantly enhanced layers of security ranging from hardened cockpit doors to air marshals make it reasonable to eliminate this requirement. |
This is a picture that is improving but we have a lot more work to do, |
This is a system desperately in need of repair, |
This is a system in desperate need, ... and people are rightly upset and distressed. |
This is probably the worst catastrophe, or set of catastrophes certainly that I'm aware of in the history of the country. It was a devastating hurricane followed by a devastating flood, |
This is really one which I think was breathtaking in its surprise, |