Once the storm gets in the Gulf of Mexico, there’s no telling where it’s going to go,

As long as that storm is still a significant threat in the Gulf of Mexico, we’re going to start to shut the city down,

It has come to our attention that some of our mutual aid firefighters, in their enthusiasm to assist the New Orleans Fire Department, used a piece of equipment called the strong arm to demolish a...

Once we get people back, we’ll do a hard assessment of what our security needs are,

start to work in synergy.

Some areas where the water was as high as the rooftops, you’re now starting to see part of the buildings.

The French Quarter is high and dry and we feel it has good electricity capabilities. But since it is so historic, we want to double and triple check before we fire up all electricity in...

Let’s get ready for phase two,

Right now, there’s probably more pressure (to waive the rule) based on the fact that we have city workers all over the place, including council members’ staff who are living in Baton Rouge, Houston and...

I had laid out like an eight-week to ten-week timeline where we could get the city back in semblance of order. It’s probably been pushed back another four weeks as a result of this,