“I’m panicking. I keep thinking, ‘Did the Corps fix the levees? ... Is my house

“I’m panicking. I keep thinking, ‘Did the Corps fix the levees? ... Is my house going to flood again? ... Am I going to have to go through all this again?”’

Evelyn Fuselier

Of Chalmette, La., whose home was submerged in 14 feet of floodwater when Hurricane Katrina hit and is now watching Gustav swirl toward the Gulf of Mexico.

“This is a monumental moment in our nation’s history. And it becomes obviously an even greater moment in November if he’s elected.”

Martin Luther King III

The civil rights icon’s oldest son, on the nomination of Barack Obama as the Democratic presidential nominee, the first black man to claim such a prize.