At the end of the day, what my folks did to try to rescue these folks was nothing short of 100% heroic. The idea that the owners abandoned these folks is absolutely not true.

They're heroes, not criminals, ... Somebody ought to be giving them medals.

[He described the efforts the Manganos and their children made to rescue patients after the nursing home flooded, getting them onto mattresses to float out through broken windows, and then into boats.] They saved 52 lives, ... And their reward . . . is an arrest warrant.

They're ridiculous. They're absurd. They're really mean-spirited without any findings.

They saved 52 lives. And their reward . . . is an arrest warrant.

People die in the buses. If you make the decision to voluntary evacuate, folks are going to die.

What people have to understand is, you're presented with a horrible choice. You take people who are on feeder tubes, who are on oxygen, who are on medications and you put them on a bus to go 70 miles in 12 hours? People are going to die, people are going to die, we know that.

We plan on bringing in a band that played during the South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin on Feb. 24.