With the evacuations firmly underway, recriminations abounded. Michael Brown, the director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), blamed the city. Mayor Ray Nagin can order an evacuation, ... the resources to get the poor, elderly or the disabled out.
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We've already started calling in additional troops that we have available to us like the Coast Guard Auxiliary, ... We have plenty of resources, plenty of people.
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Speaking to Larry King Live ... That Category 4 hurricane caused the same kind of damage that we anticipated. So we planned for it two years ago. Last year, we exercised it. And unfortunately this year, we're implementing it.
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His whole life was his family. It's a tragic situation for everyone involved. These two young children, they have no mother, no father and no grandma.
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