The guy obviously doesn't want to get arrested, ... When somebody doesn't want to get arrested, there's really no very easy way of doing it.

(The investigation) is going to take a while, ... There are lots of witnesses and lots of conflicting statements throughout this event. This investigation ... will be under the supervision of the (district attorney's) office.

The one fortunate thing in this very tragic situation is that when it was happening, there were two officers from our SWAT unit just a block away, so they got here quite fast and were able to evacuate people from the scene,

Quite a few house boats turned over, ... I wouldn't be surprised if we find a few more bodies.

The structure is very shaky right now, it's very unstable, ... We're waiting for the Army Corps of Engineers to do an assessment and advise us whether we can go underneath it, or we have to shore it up, or tear it down, before the rescue continues.

We have done a tremendous amount of training, visual training, team training. We have a real good deployment,

There are prescribed ways of doing this. I know this is very frustrating and isn't satisfactory, but that's the way it is,

The rapist has plagued this city for exactly a year,

You can bet there will be a whole host of charges.

Rodney King, if you remember, is a man in a supine, fetal position -- not resisting -- who (was hit) 56 times with billy clubs. There are no billy clubs in this video. This is the culmination of a chase where a guy is clearly resisting,