It must have tasted good if you've been eating canned food for weeks and want something fresh.

The help we provide them is with our food stamp program, and if they are here and they don't have access to their income or other resources, they need food assistance, and then that's how we can help them,

They can get an emergency form of MediCal for treatment in emergency room. But no public assistance: no food stamps, no cash assistance, no MediCal that would be available. Even for most programs, if you're documented, you have to work 60 quarters before you're eligible.

FEMA didn't have any food for those people in Gretna. They didn't give me any food. I didn't have any water. My obligations are to the people of Jefferson Parish.

I think the big thing, and we already knew this, was the increase in number of people who are food insecure and hungry on the Central Coast.

There's just too many people out there who are going without food.