When the evacuees arrived here from New Orleans and other Katrina ravished areas, they had nothing.

Nothing was broken. Her arm got twisted a little bit when a player fell on her hand.

When Michael Brown admitted to reporters that he didn't know thousands of survivors were stranded at the New Orleans convention center without food or water, even though TV journalists had been reporting that fact for hours, his appearance before us today became inevitable.

The New Orleans I knew ain't no more.

There's an affinity for those Delta areas because it's home for so many.

I'm walkin' to New Orleans, I'm going to need two pair of shoes, When I get through walkin' to you, When I get back to New Orleans.