This storm is a volatile storm, ... We don't really know where it's going to go, and so the entire peninsula needs to keep an eye to the south and east of us. We'll probably have a better idea by the middle of the week.

We are staging across -- some outside the state and some inside the state -- a massive response for this storm, and we're going to need it, ... There's going to be a lot of work necessary to make sure that the response is massive and immediate to help people once this storm comes.

Whether or not this hurricane hits shore in Florida, we're going to have storm surges in the coastal areas. We're going to have high winds, hurricane force winds in some cases. People should not be complacent about this.

The thing that kills people isn't so much the wind, ... It's the storm surge. I'm worried that on that peninsula that sticks out into the ocean, there's going to be grave loss of life. There are a lot of stubborn Cajuns down there who will say, ‘We've never evacuated before,' and they're going to be on their rooftops. I'm really worried about Gulfport and Biloxi, (Miss.), too.'

Immigrants are more fertile.

If you have to deal with our friends at ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, it's like a Kafka novel. Files just disappear.