The first job is to get both buildings cleaned and decontaminated. Once we have that done we'll have the experts go in and tell us what can be done and what can't be done.

We'll have to be more selective in where the phones are. Now instead of 450 phones we'll have only 150 and they'll be for the media, not the suites.

We've opened every area we can open in the Superdome and the (adjacent) Arena. Our offices have become a bunkhouse for the National Guard.

We have to make sure the building is safe before we can get anyone in there to access the damage. We hope to have a team in there in October so we can get a plan and decide what needs to be done.

Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above all else.

In much of the West, the well educated have been taught to believe that they can know nothing and that they can draw no independent conclusions about truth, unless they cite a study and "experts" have affirmed it. "Studies show" is to the modern secular college graduate what "Scripture says" is to the religious fundamentalist.