Board members talking, reaching out as they can to St. Peter. Reassure the hospital that we welcome that voice back.

He was a real kind of lawyer's lawyer and what he cared about was the craft and that was a very striking thing about him. He's a very careful, serious lawyer and not someone who makes a snap judgment.

Nurses, physicians, counselors but there are probably needs for others. And at the moment the work that's going on is work identifying potential volunteers who would be available to go at very short notice potentially as early as this weekend.

As far as myself, I had no knowledge that he was going to step down. [Jordan] could have discussed it with other people, but he didn't discuss it with me.

The city had a meeting with the committee that turned the petition in and outlined the things that were done wrong. Those things have been corrected. The new petition will reflect that and we will get it right this time.

It's something Minnesotans should be proud of, ... No other state's reached this kind of commitment to its citizens.

This smoke is very toxic … it's really thick, and anything like that will drop you to your knees pretty quick once you take a few breaths.

I know that's a hard decision to make but to me public safety is paramount. When you start cutting that then you're in trouble.

There could be anything in there. It's heavy. It's dark. You probably have tar burning, and kind of material that buildings are made of.