the u.s. a week after hurricane ida made landfall in louisiana, hundreds of thousands of people are still without power in dangerously hot 100 degree weather. it will be a month before power is fully restored after the category 4 storm s 150 miles-per-hour winds blacked-out all of new orleans, while demolishing whole communities. utter devastation, like a bomb went off. ida brought record-breaking rainfall to the northeast. new york city issued its first flash flood emergency in its history, as water inundated subway stations and submerged westchester county in 14 feet of water. in new jersey, roadways turned to rivers forcing hundreds of water rescues as walls of water demolished homes and businesses. people have been warning for decades that the effect of climate change and what it would do to our communities, it s happening right now. it is not a future threat. this as wildfires in
the seniors and elderly people and residents of the nursing homes was given the okay as an alternative site if there was an emergency. seven of those have been ordered to close and the health department said they had to move more than 800 patients from the alternative air facility after the storm it turned out to be a warehouse with mattresses on the floor and no power and water leaking inside it s one of the many devastating stories post hurricane ida, hundreds of thousands of people still do not have power and also damaged more than 30000 that s more than katrina, data and delta combined they have to rely on others like ice and water and food just to make it through the day. it s been a very challenging week for people all over southeast louisiana and there has been a lot of really good work and hard work and no doubt things are better than they
tornado because they were in this basement down here, they were right below the kitchen that was demolished. these are the types of survivals were hearing and where hurricane ida made landfall in louisiana. governor phil murphy of new jersey says we need to start getting used to extreme weather and he talked about how they need to prepare for the next event. we screamed loud and clear, tornado warnings, flood warning s, flash flood warnings and we beg people to get off the road and we have rain in many communities in two or three hours that are equivalent to what they get in a month or two, this sadly think it s part of what were gonna be facing more frequency and more intensity. 27 people have been confirmed dead from the storm in new
people what is really like there. not only did they s more they tried to make it less clear and more ambiguous of what was really happening there. jon: congressman chris stewart republican of utah, thank you for coming on. thank you, sir. jon: tonight much of louisiana is still without power one week after hurricane ida pummeled that state and it could be weeks more until electricity is restored in many places. the state has shut down several nursing homes after residents were crammed into a warehouse to ride out the storm. jeff paul live in new orleans with the latest. were learning more about the nursing homes that were evacuated during hurricane ida five of the seven deaths that happen involving the nursing home to be attributed to storm related deaths and it s also been reported that prior to hurricane ida the plan to move
the u.s. a week after hurricane ida made landfall in louisiana, hundreds of thousands of people are still without power in dangerously hot 100 degree weather. it will be a month before power is fully restored after the category 4 storm s 150 miles-per-hour winds blacked-out all of new orleans, while demolishing whole communities. utter devastation, like a bomb went off. ida brought record-breaking rainfall to the northeast. new york city issued its first flash flood emergency in its history, as water inundated subway stations and submerged westchester county in 14 feet of water. in new jersey, roadways turned to rivers forcing hundreds of water rescues as walls of water demolished homes and businesses. people have been warning for decades that the effect of climate change and what it would do to our communities, it s happening right now. it is not a future threat. this as wildfires in