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tom. the mayor of new york city says he s implementing new severe weather warning systems and new basement evacuation plans. tom? all right, gabe, thank you. and we are tracking that new storm threat to louisiana. for hundreds of thousands there, the crisis only getting worse tonight. our vaughn hilliard is there. reporter: eight days after ida, half a million in louisiana are still without power. some communities surrounded by standing water, homes gone. there s not a person on this side that s not suffering reporter: katie arias home overtaken by floodwaters furniture tossed to the mud. you re drowning and you re reaching up and saying help me and no one s coming. reporter: officials say the total number of destroyed power poles higher than hurricanes katrina, ike, delta and zeta combined the national guard now operating a floating bridge to one town completely cut off by floodwaters. these waters and mud with nowhere to go
yesterday afternoon here of lafitte, louisiana, where we are right now. that standing water and mud created a swamp here across this town of about a thousand here, but this is a big shrimping industry area here. there s a lot of business retail that comes in and out of here and essentially so much of it is still under water or under mud. you can see behind us here family trying to get their trailer that is stuck out of the mud using the pickup truck but the mud is so deep, it is so difficult. i want to let you hear from katie arias, one of the residents about the hardship they re enduring eight days later. you re drowning and you re reaching up and saying, help me, and no one s coming. for years i ve done this over and over again. this is the worst i ve ever seen. reporter: this house right here is katie s house, and the water rose almost up to the roof here.
is a shrimping community here. you heard her say she has been here all her life. folks are trying and beginning to get back to their communities. at the same time i will have derek, fouroto journalist pan pan back over. you see this is the entrance to a home. this is the welcome sign to left of the stairs. we were having the conversation here. it s not quite clear what home those stairs used to actually lead up to. that s the kind of devastation here that we re talking about in these residents when i talked to her husband there katie s husband chris i asked the question do you think you will stay here and he said no, we just don t know how we can rebuild in a community here when another storm could come and flood us again. we are starting to hear a lot of that. thank you. great to see you. so in my reporting this past week in new jersey and new york and watching the damage there in louisiana, it is devastating to see the real-world effects of climate change and lack of
we are standing on the one riot of passage, one roadway allowing folks to gain access to their properties. it s standing water and mud here at this point. their homes are devastated here and just trying to get further back and begin to have some sort of reckoning of what they could potentially be able to rebuild in the weeks and months ahead is so still so difficult because we are talking about power being out for up to four weeks. four to six weeks here. i want you to listen to one of the residents we talked to this afternoon. katie arias here talked about the unknown that is ahead. for years i ve done this over and over again. this is the worst i have ever seen. reporter: your kids lived here, your grandkids? my children, my grandchildren all grew up here. my father brought this property when before i was born. reporter: you just heard this
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