IRVINE, California (CNN) -- He calls himself a "hands-on governor" to begin with, but Arnold Schwarzenegger tells CNN he takes an important lesson from the angry aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
"Being out there with the people is the key thing," Schwarzenegger us as we spent several hours with him heading from briefings on the fires to a gym turned into a shelter for some 300 people in Irvine.
"Don't hide in your capital because there's no action there at all," the actor turned politician said in an interview. "The action is out there with the fires where people are displaced, in the centers and so forth, you got to be out there, I think that's the key thing and to make decisions very quickly and to be right there when you may have to make decisions."
-- By John King, CNN Chief National Correspondent
