I'll be going on in another direction God has for me. I want to ask you to respect my privacy, respect my decision and just respect my right to be by myself. |
I'll tell you one thing I'm not going to do, ... I'm not going to let this city go back to the crime levels we had before. We're going to do whatever it takes. |
I'm a little surprised the admiral came out publicly on this, ... Maybe since I've been away a day or two, maybe he's the new crowned federal mayor of New Orleans. |
I'm always concerned about it because of our levee being so battered and beaten, ... But with the Corps working the way they're working I'm getting more comfortable every day. |
I'm cautiously optimistic. I want to see it happen (Saturday). I want to see it happen next week. Then, when I see consistency of delivery, I'll feel like there's a light at the end of the tunnel. |
I'm going to announce a phased repopulation plan that is going to deal with some of the areas that were least hit by the hurricane and had less water, and then within the next week or two we should have about 180,000 people back in the city of New Orleans, |
I'm going to be a man about this. Whatever I did, whatever I could have done better, I'm going to stand up and history will judge me accordingly, |
I'm going to talk to him about what it's going to take to keep this city going over the next three months and ask him to support us in the short term, |
I'm hoping to come up with a system that if we do have to do any mass demolitions down in the Lower Ninth Ward, ... that we figure out a proper compensation formula for those homeowners and they move either back in those areas or in an area that is comparable. |
I'm not sure I'm going to get out of here alive. I'm scared of riots. I'm scared of the locals. We might get caught in the crossfire. |
I'm not sure. I can't speak for them. It's me and Gen. Honore. |
I'm starting to get into the mode of how do we reopen the city, |
I'm starting to see rays of light, |
I'm starting to see water levels much lower than I've seen, ... Even in areas where the water was as high as the rooftops, I started to see parts of the buildings. |
I'm taking them out of here as quickly as I can, ... I'm not going to sit back and let another one die. |