Michael Brown
Michael Brown
Former administrator of FEMA who resigned from his position after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Many americans blamed him for the slow response to help those in New Orleans in the aftermath of the deadly hurricane.
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth8 November 1954
CityGuymon, OK
alabama breath conditions country deep doubt homes living needs people quite recognize reporter room
I think everyone in the country needs to take a big, collective, deep breath and recognize that there are a lot of people in this state, in Mississippi and Alabama who are living under conditions that, quite frankly, I doubt any reporter in this room is living under -- no food, no water, it's hot, it's sticky, their homes have been destroyed, they don't know where they're going to go next.
meeting needs
meeting the needs as they are communicated to us.
caused earlier needs public reports sure
I'm sure it caused some delay. I think the public needs to know there was some confusion, that we had reports earlier in the day of a breach.
behind bernard federal larger lost maze needs placed problems red represents smaller tape
St. Bernard represents one of the big problems down there, which is that the needs of smaller communities are getting lost in the maze of federal red tape and placed behind those of larger communities, such as New Orleans.
agencies assumed follow resulting
just assumed that agencies would follow up on taskings resulting from the calls.
disaster help katrina ongoing people
People are getting the help they need, ... This is an ongoing disaster. This disaster didn't just end when Katrina left.
bringing massive medical teams urban
We're bringing in food, water, and the medical teams and urban search-and-rescue teams to have a massive response.
homes orleans people
I surmise there are people in New Orleans who won't be able to get back to their homes for months, if ever.
hours maybe screamed
Maybe I should have screamed 12 hours earlier.
whipping
Man, 54 years old, and I've never had a whipping like this in my life.
hoping serious
I'm hoping they get serious about evacuating New Orleans,
again air asking force obviously president questions reports talked television twice watching
I talked to the president twice today, once in Crawford and then again on Air Force One. He's obviously watching the television a lot, and he had some questions about the Dome, he's asking questions about reports of breaches.
coming planned realizing worried worst
I think I told him that we were realizing our worst nightmare, that everything we had planned about, worried about, that FEMA, frankly, had worried about for 10 years was coming true.
biggest louisiana mistake saturday
My biggest mistake was not recognizing by Saturday that Louisiana was dysfunctional.