Ray Nagin: “And I'm expressing my dissatisfaction, my outrage, and my demand that this foolishness stops.”

Well, you know, with any event like this, having resources and, I think, having resources coordinated. So from the federal government to the state government locally, we had everything coordinated. We had a good plan. We had practiced it…

No, I wouldn't advise that, because you know, we have downed power lines. We have trees. Our sewer system is not working. The hospitals still have skeletal crews. We still have a lot of work to do.

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.