Bob Johannessen Quotes (10 Quotes)

Weather permitting, the operations will resume Sunday.

It's a place for the process to start, to work through the grief of beginning the long road of possible identification.

The death toll will rise without a doubt.

There might still be bodies found -- for instance, if a house was locked and nobody able to go into it.

We knew that several years ago, we had about 250 cases. In the last few years, there has been a little over 100 cases. We're hoping this season won't be any worse than in the past few years.

We're going to count one at a time. It could take days. It could take years. It could take lifetimes.

Of those three testing methods, the CDC and others have agreed that bird testing gives us the least effective information. And our most effective information comes from testing mosquitoes themselves.

The elderly were much more likely to be in hospitals and nursing homes as well as possibly homebound and not able to access transportation in order to evacuate from the storm.

Our goal is to do everything we can under the circumstances to treat each body with as much dignity and respect as we possibly can. We're trying to treat them all as individuals.

So many people have been completely displaced. A family that winds up in Buffalo, New York, may not have the wherewithal to claim a body and conduct a burial.