The collection (of bodies) has been slow because the whole focus has been on saving the living, ... I'm sorry that families have had their loved ones out there. But if there is a choice between searching for a dead body and a 6-year-old child with hypothermia, there is no choice.

These are horrible times, and it's extremely frustrating. I wish I could speed up the process, but speeding up the process could contaminate the process. I'm sorry about that.

I don't think visual identification will be a possibility,

I don't think a visual identification will be possible. It's not about the numbers. It's about the body.

I don't know how many people have died,

By the time we got these folks, the condition in which they were in made initial determination very difficult. I can just tell you there is no way to shorten the process.

Being in the water that long makes visual identification essentially an impossibility,

I'm assuming we'll find some up in the backwoods, pretty far from where they belong,

I'm told 400 to 500 people have come in and given DNA samples, but we've had no way of matching them,

Each person is a worst-case scenario, ... There is nothing worse than somebody dying like this.