We have to boost our core services such as fire, police and trash collection. Operating a zoo is a business we can no longer be in.

Running a zoo just doesn't make sense when you're talking about cutting police and fire and trash and everything else. Ideally, the zookeepers will go last because this is a phased process, and obviously we have to make sure the animals are taken care of.

You're going to have pushback from governors, county executives, mayors, fire chiefs, police chiefs all up and down the emergency-management structure who wonder whether the military will become a super domestic responder and who do they respond to, ... Who determines if a state can't handle a disaster? What if a riot happens in a major city? Does a mayor get a call that the 82nd Airborne has just landed in your city? We've got to talk about this.

We have a huge problem out there with police, fire and other emergency communications everywhere. They're outmoded, they don't talk to one another, they don't work in emergencies. And part of the solution to that is this spectrum.

Fire Department and Police Department crews were on scene within four minutes to attempt rescue efforts,

The alarm is blaring, the police department and the fire department are in his bedroom, and he didn't even move. It's deafening.