"Your government will stand at the ready 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to stop terrorism during

"Your government will stand at the ready 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to stop terrorism during the holiday season and beyond."
Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge
On raising the nation's terror alert level to "Code Orange," the second-highest.
"You couldn't see anything but rooftops with the houses submerged in mud."
Gov. Rosette Lerias
Of Leyte province in the Philippines, on the devastation caused by mudslides.
"There were little kids weeping."
Lesley Koenig
San Francisco Ballet general manager, on the scene at the War Memorial Opera House, where a power outage forced the cancellation of a matinee performance of the Nutcracker.