I am extremely concerned that there will be donor fatigue, ... This is the fifth or sixth major disaster in a span of 18 months, and we worry and we pray that the American public will continue to come through.

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We felt that in light of the guilty plea that the integrity of the gift had been compromised.

183

Any decision we make will have to be based on cost savings, ... I'd like to see a full proposal on how the county could save some money.

175

We are running out of food, running out of supplies, and are finding it extremely difficult to find food and supplies.

151

The driving issue right now is the evacuation of New Orleans and where we're going to house all those people. We've got 23,000 people being bused to Houston today.

149

Yesterday we rented big fan boats to pull them out and the National Guard would not let us enter the city.

138

We don't know if this is going to work, but we're going to try it and I very much cast this as a first attempt. The odds are by 2 [o'clock] in the morning, you may have more people headed home than headed elsewhere.

129

People are responding at a record pace.

109

We're getting phone calls asking for teams to rescue people still trapped in their homes.

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