The hurricane disaster tells us that each layer of government has a role in responding and recovering from ultracatastrophic events and that no one level can do it alone. But Arizona is ahead of the game.

Dawn is an incredible asset to Sam. I have watched her for years.

We only had 10 hits but we could have easily had 20 because we scalded the baseball today. I thought our at bats were very good today so I'm was pleased with that.

He is going home to get some rest.

I am not optimistic in the least. I think that our vaccine supply this year will be equal to or less than last year.

To put things in perspective, you must remember that it is estimated that between one and three million kids, mainly, die of malaria every year in the endemic regions. So a vaccine that can protect with a 50 percent efficacy against the severe form of the disease has the possibility of protecting against many of these deaths.

The problem about vaccines in the United States is the system for production and distribution is broken.

Arizona is looked at by the feds and other around the country as a model.

[The breakdown of emergency communications will be a key topic at hearings planned on Capitol Hill. Disaster response experts hope the Katrina chaos will] serve as a wake-up call, ... in the first major test of our emergency response capabilities after September 11, we see once again our Achilles heel is the total meltdown of the infrastructure we rely on for communication.