[Amelia]

He could have been making oblique reference to the local authorities handling of it or the fact that many people did not think that the levies would break and therefore the extensive flooding which in NO is the main problem.

I understood him to mean the latter, which is why I thought he seemed clueless.

[Amelia]

I will say that I saw Chertoff with Brown in a brief press conference this morning and was much more impressed.