Ray Nagin: “We will put all of our resources to focus on murders and violent crimes. Everything we have.”

What you're seeing is the residuals from a system prior to Katrina that was broken. Katrina is exposing everything in its rawest forms now.

In a city that's special, New Orleans, the brand that not only locals marvel at, but the nation and the international community marvel at. That's the New Orleans we're going to build.

But surely he is upset at black America also. We're not taking care of ourselves. We're not taking care of our women and we're not taking care of our children.

There will be no shelter of last resort. We will pre-stage buses to get people to the convention center and out of the city.