And I don't care what people are saying in Uptown or wherever they are. This city will be chocolate at the end of the day.

It's a good time to run for mayor because it'll be less poor, less black, less democratic.

Now is not the time to change leadership. I ask the citizens of New Orleans to let me continue this important job of rebuilding our city.

We will have life. We will have commerce. We will have people getting back into their normal modes of operation.

That's why we are taking this unprecedented move, ... The storm surge most likely will topple our levee system.

It looks as though at this point there's a 50 to 60 percent chance that New Orleans will receive tropical force winds which is probably our biggest concern,