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retirement arm yirm general honora joins us from new orleans.ood to see you. >> hello, ali. >> how did you get called into action? what happened, what was your briefing, what were your orders? >> we were tasked with helping with katrina. it was a continuing mission to provide military support to similar authorities. we have the mission on the warning over the weekend, and in order to deploy from mississippi, where my headquarters was at the time, into new orleans on tuesday evening. >> when you say provide support to civil authorities, what were the problems, the mess that you walked into. people were homeless. the response was a disaster, now more than a million were displaced. there was all that stuff going on in doesn't new orleans. respond. >> the priority received if the governor of louisiana was to save people's lives, conduct evacuations, provide food and water to people. basically we had the same test. that was the focus, and a lot of people focused on new orleans. the disaster was bigger, as it happened, we had over 30,000 people in the