Kathleen Blanco: “We need your help. We need everything you've got.”

I knew on Saturday before the storm and it's in all the documentation that I presented to Congress that this category 5 was going to out match any of Louisiana's resources.

We would not be here today if the levees had not failed.

Please, be our lasting partner. That's what we need from you. Stand by us as we rebuild.

They have M-16s and they're locked and loaded. These troops know how to shoot and kill, and I expect they will.