I feel about 1,800 homes and businesses have been flooded in Cameron parish but expects that number to increase to a full 2,900 homes in the area.

we know at this point 160 people have been rescued so far but the flooding actually extends from Plaquemines parish, which we all know so well from Katrina, all the way over to Cameron parish, which is on the Texas state line.

If this threatens my state, I'm not going to make my primetime speech at the RNC.

Our state, our local, our federal government is much better prepared than it's ever been before for a storm. But we, as Louisianans, still have personal responsibility.

I will keep saying it as many times as I can. I love the job I have got.

I think that people are on edge. And if, even with a light tropical storm, you had flooding in the streets, even if it wasn't six feet of water in people's homes, I think, psychologically, that could be devastating to the recovery of this…

We cannot afford to have a catastrophic failure of those levees again. We cannot afford to have massive flooding.

What's scary to us is not only looking back at what caused the last failure, but thinking about what's going to be fixed for June 1st. Because if it took this long to admit there were design failures, it makes us less confident in the…