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i don t want to panic you, but i want to make sure that you understand that there s a major hurricane that is in the gulf of mexico. we did have several people come up to us and say what are you doing? we re here for a hurricane. they said, oh, what hurricane? saturday august 27 is too late to start saying to your city that it is time to think about evacuating. my name s michael brown and i was the undersecretary of homeland security and the director of fema. we have had conference call after conference call with all of those governors including the mayor about how serious this is. it was not a natural disaster. it was an engineering failure. these l levees that were designed, built and constructed by the federal government
i don t want to panic you, but i want to make sure that you understand that there s a major hurricane that is in the gulf of mexico. we did have several people come up to us and say what are you doing? we re here for a hurricane. they said, oh, what hurricane? saturday august 27 is too late to start saying to your city that it is time to think about evacuating. my name s michael brown and i was the undersecretary of homeland security and the director of fema. we have had conference call after conference call with all of those governors including the mayor about how serious this is. it was not a natural disaster. it was an engineering failure. these lev views that were designed, built and constructed by the federal government failed. and when they failed, the city flooded. politics has certainly intervened in a way that the project was designed and constructed. the corps had proposed building