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

This city will be a majority African-American city. It's the way God wants it to be. You can't have New Orleans no other way. It wouldn't be New Orleans.

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…

We will put all of our resources to focus on murders and violent crimes.

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.