They said they thought he might be a burglary suspect.

We have a long way to go in our fundraising to meet the needs of people from Katrina, let alone what we need to do for the people of Rita. As fast as the money is coming in, we are spending it.

There are amazing challenges and obstacles.

The scope of this is just so huge. If you took New Orleans out of the equation, Mississippi and Alabama would be a bigger job than we tackled in all four of the storms that hit Florida last year.

Hurricane Katrina is wreaking havoc for southeast Florida and the Gulf coast states. The Red Cross will meet the challenge by doing what we do best - coming together to respond with tireless compassion to take care of our neighbors.

We could wait until we built a system that was big enough to handle the demand or we could launch what we had and build it as we went along. Did we frustrate people? Yes. ... But we were out there and we were providing all that we could do with what we had.