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O'REILLY: But the Red Cross is running into some problems in the hurricane zone ... So, you had a hard time getting to the folks quickly. Why?

EVANS: Well, Bill, the specific issue is getting into New Orleans and I want your audience to know that the Red Cross was ready from literally the moment after the storm passed through to go into New Orleans. We were not allowed to go in by the Homeland Security - the state Homeland Security authorities. Red Cross is not a search and rescue organization, so we depend on the state and local authorities, you know, to make sure it's possible for us to get in and in this particular case, they did not want us to go in because they were trying to evacuate the city. In the, the course of the storm we evacuated, prior to its coming through, we evacuated, we sheltered in 90 shelters, hundreds, thousands of people from New Orleans, so we have been ready to go in. We're ready today to go in. We're waiting for the word that - that it's possible to go.

O'REILLY: OK. But I think a lot of it has to do with your security of your people. Um, in the first days after the hurricane, there was no security in the town.

EVANS: That's right.

O'REILLY: And if you had gone in, you know, the thugs with the AK-47s could have done damage, as they did to med-evac workers, to hospital workers, to doctors. We went all through that. Now it's under control.

EVANS: Right.