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New Orleans is not asking for a handout we're asking for a hand up,
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Once we get the 3,000 National Guardsmen here, we're locking this place down, ... It's really difficult because my opinion of the looting is it started with people running out of food, and you can't really argue with that too much. Then it escalated to this kind of mass chaos where people are taking electronic stuff and all that.
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I would like for everybody to get out because it's a health risk, ... There are toxins in the water. There are gas leaks where we may have explosions. We're fighting at least four fires right now, and we don't have running water. It is not safe.
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