And we got calls today, 'We need you ... to go to a place in St. Bernard Parish. It's a hospice, ... and there are 10 dead and there are 10 dying.' But those people were probably alive yesterday or the day before. |
I find it hard to believe there's nothing we can do to stop this, dead center. Bring it to a head and stop it. |
I thoroughly enjoyed my time as chair. Some good things have been accomplished the last couple of years. |
If there was a barrier in the center, people wouldn't even think about passing. |
It was supposed to be a half-hour meeting, but he stayed for more than an hour before it was us who had to end it. |
It's not going to give people what they wanted. |
Many of our people have lost their homes. |
Move over Bridget Jones, |
Our immediate focus is reduction of speed, enhanced enforcement and center-safety barriers to reduce serious and fatal accidents. |
Peoples' lives are changed forever by these accidents. Three fatalities in the last two months qualify that road as extremely dangerous. |
The best scenario is the truth about what happens comes out, ... There is a problem in the way officers responded to this incident and their use of deadly force. It's not only what the standard is, its how you train your officers to apply that standard and minimize the use of deadly force. |
The initial response is always to blame the police and CHP. |
The Secretary of State [Reid] has given a categorical assurance as to what is going to happen. Politics aside, he's always been good to his word in the past, and that's why in these particular circumstances his word is taken. |
Those numbers are incredible. They thought a half a million dollars wrong. |
We've never seen anything like this. The devastation is overwhelming, ... We're arriving at flooded areas, where we see handkerchiefs waving from roofs. |