In the long run, I think it will be good for consumers, workers and in the economic interest of our businesses.

This is an exercise that requires flexibility and patience. In the next couple of days, we'll have evacuees in Washington. We'll still have them.

If it wasn't a chaotic scene, if it was an orderly evacuation, we would be able to give you specifics about what our preferences would be, such as evacuating first the disabled, then the elderly and infants. That would of course be our preference. But the reality on the scene does not permit that. We're going to do the best we can with the resources we have.

I am confident in Dr. Pane's leadership and ability to address these issues and identify a strong administrator.

We don't see any appreciable improvement from what we've already had before us. The good news is that people want to get there.

It might very well be us someday because of a natural or other emergency. It's good karma for us to be in the business of reaching out.