New Orleans residents continue to pour back into their city following Hurricane Gustav. More than one million homes and businesses remain without power. Visiting Louisiana, President Bush said the government was better prepared over Hurricane Katrina.

President Bush: “We’re much better coordinated this time than we were with Katrina. The state government, the local government and the federal government were able to work effectively together. There is still more work to be
done.”

Some 80,000 people remain in emergency shelters in Louisiana. New Orleans resident Gary Cambor was one of tens of thousands to refuse to leave his home.

Gary Cambor: “The last time I left my house, it took me two-and-a-half years to get back here. I said I’m not leaving this time, because they might take — see, I’ve been talking to people, and they’ve been saying they wish they wouldn’t have left, because it seemed like they can’t get back home. So I wasn’t planning on leaving. They’d just have to kill me this time.”