It's going to take awhile for the authorities on the ground to fully understand the impact of the flooding. And therefore people who are safe now - remain in safe conditions.

Get the plane on the ground. Let the authorities deal with the hijackers. As in a mugging, the thing you don't want to do is grab the pistol out of the mugger's hand. Give the mugger your wallet. In a hijacking the proper thing to do is sit tight and not challenge the hijackers.

Indian authorities have fully cleared the wheat for human consumption.

I think that the voters fully understand what's going on here.

We're as stunned as anybody about this, and I have to say we don't fully understand it. But I think we've got a new therapy here.

You've got the double whammy of Katrina and then Rita, ... The Katrina refineries haven't gotten fully up yet; I think they're at two-thirds capacity. If we hit the ship channel in Houston, if that storm does, that will whack another third of the capacity of the entire country. It's a huge risk for our state.