The priority is to help people return to their way of life, to return to their homes and their communities.

The task of the state and the Louisiana Recovery Authority is to really gather everything together and try to help rebuild the state.

My highest priority is the safety of all Oregonians and their communities.

Emotions are still raw here.

We know people were up in the attics hollering for help.

There's so much focus and interest about what happens during war, but very little about what happens when people return to homes and communities that have been destroyed. There's a renewal that happens, but it's a very difficult one.