In the area of Hancock County, Mississippi, where the Incident Management Team was assigned, I saw areas of total annihilation. I saw a village where the town hall, bank, church, and library were completely lifted away, with nothing remaining,

I hope the people of our community will watch and learn from the people of the Gulf Coast and survive the storm that we one day will inevitably get,

They will continue to give out funds until their pot is empty.

It's made so that you may come back to your property alive, instead of having to ask someone in your family to submit a DNA sample to help identify you, as is currently taking place in the Gulf Coast region,

It's a celebration of all of the historic assets here in town.

They're capable of playing it so close to the vest, that anything you hear until then is going to be speculation.

They had information that he was in possession of a weapon, ... He did not have a weapon. He had money, and it was counterfeit bills.

This community is just starting to see federal recovery resources -- 20 days post storm,

It would not be hard to come up with the projects to equal the $500,000. An estimate for the Dexter Plaza from a few years back was $150,000. In addition, the train station could easily reach $200,000, just in soft funds alone.

The town EMA has a good plan. It's time now to take a good look at it, and make it better. I can give John Rookwood, the director, the benefit of my Katrina experience about what errors other people made in their plans, to avoid making those errors ourselves,