reporter: they were hungry, they were thirsty, they were in pain. it was just very sad. reporter: a harrowing account from nurse natalie henderson who rode tout the hurricane inside a warehouse crammed with 800 nursing home residents, relocated just before ida hit. these images show patients in squalid conditions packed close together on mattresses. and the whole place is reeking of urine and feces. it was horrifying. reporter: some were forced to relieve themselves in small buckets. who would do this to patients, you know what i mean? and if you speak up about it, they get mad. reporter: who gets mad? the supervisors. they don t want you to say anything. reporter: are there many other options for you in new orleans? not really. reporter: since speaking out, henderson says she lost her job. they just try to paint me out to be this bad person, and i m not. i m not a bad person. i m trying to look out for
in st. john the baptist parish, it will be harder because of the direction of the grid goes in and it may be another week or ten days before they restore the power in st. john the baptist parish. we have to relook recovery. we still have 2,000 people in recreational trailers in southeast louisiana in laurel. the senate still hasn t approved the supplemental. all that has to be relooked. fema is overmatched. as good as they are, they were dealing with five disasters before ida hit. now they have ida and stretched throughout louisiana. we have to rethink and i think we need to create a joint recovery force that focuses on this region that deals with recovery and use fema to deal with response. recovery is a lot different than
our country and i m hoping that he sees how climate change is impacting in the inner cities. remember, this is not a large wave or tide increase. this came from the sky. and we need to change our conversation on how we deal with the climate change and in the inner cities and across our country. yeah, it is important to point out, this wasn t actually a hurricane by the time it got to the northeast. this is the remnants of something that had gone through the gulf coast and had sort of weakened as it moved across land. i do want so ask you about something published in the new york daily news. this was last wednesday before ida hit new york. they posted an editorial with this headline, the storm next time, after katrina and new orleans protected itself the same can t be said for new york after sandy. it put many of us under water. there are far too little progress from protecting the
he knows people. we also louisiana has a secret weapon in the white house with our former representative cedric richmond who is one of the president s right-hand men. and so i really do believe given all our state has been through in the last couple of decades that we re going to get what we need this time. you and i spoke in the hours before ida hit. you said everyone was concerned whether the levees would hold. well, they did, but the electric system didn t. is that the birth the bigges problem for most folks right now? yes, absolutely. nip who s been to the south, particularly in louisiana, you know how hot it get this time of year. indescribably hot and humid. for people especially elderly and people with health problems, it s really difficult and often deadly for them to be in this kind of weather without any fans or acs or anything. so that s kind of what we re doing.
be made about what to keep and get rid of, what to fix, how to pay for it. there s a lot of ida still to come here in the northeast, fred. yeah, and the cost to tackle, i mean, it s exorbitant. nobody really knows. no one s really put an exact figure. evan mcmorris santoro, thank you so much. on to louisiana, now. more than 700,000 remain without power nearly a week after ida hit. that on top of fuel shortages, leaving many in dangerous situations as the temperatures rise, just sweltering levels. cnn s nadia romero is in new orleans for us. nadia, you re speaking with people who are evacuating to shelters, but tell us about what they ve been experiencing and what they re hoping is around the corner for them? well, fred, a lot of people are just looking forward to some ac, fresh clothes, food, water. i mean, the basics, right? the basics that you need really to survive, and not just be comfortable, but to go