[WHAT THEY'RE SAYING:] The location is extremely convenient to MacDill Air Force Base but yet it's still a very quiet and somewhat secluded location for South Tampa, ... There's not a lot of new developments going in around there.

We have firmly adopted a stance of saying 'no' to the force scenario. It is impossible. It means an world war,

Commanders can continue what they've been doing before, but what the Air Force is saying to them is, You need to be fair, and you need to appear fair,

They gave me a paper saying our gym was closing. It upset me so bad. I couldn't do my workout.

They still have a plaque on the wall saying Dean and I lived there and never paid any rent. But the truth is we often put on shows for birthday parties and weddings for hotel guests. That helped keep the wolf from the door.

[FEMA directed all of the flights to Lackland Air Force Base outside of San Antonio, Evans said. He said that 11 U.S. airlines and Air Canada had offered to help but that constraints at the air fields severely limited the number of flights.] It's a very fluid situation out there, and we're hoping to ramp up quickly, ... But New Orleans is not running like a normal metropolitan airport right now.