I've not seen anything like this before - the faxes, e-mails, telephone calls - in terms of an emergency, ... We are getting resources together and getting that information to the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency (PEMA).

Every time the telephone rings, you feel a frisson of excitement. The call is almost never exciting, but it is in our character to keep on believing.

[A senior Administration official says that telephone calls and e-mails exchanged between several suspected terrorists and intercepted by the U.S. and foreign intelligence agencies pointed to a plot inside the U.S. using nerve gas, poisons or radiological devices.] It wasn't just chatter, ... It was a pattern.

Obviously we want to make sure that (emergency e-mails) reach everybody and, for those, the opt-out wouldn't apply. But obviously we don't want to deluge people with tons and tons of stuff, (like) basketball tickets.

It's not that the emergency department couldn't take them in, it's that they couldn't get them out. If you don't have beds you can admit them to, you're really at gridlock.

The governor has a role in terms of declaring a state of emergency.