dire the power expected to be out for weeks hospitals are overwhelmed, and we re hearing more horror stories from when the storm hit. one nursing home owner is under fire after these images surfaced showing patients packed into unsanitary conditions and in the northeast, the death toll from the same storm now tops 50. president biden will tour the damage there this week. we have two reports tonight beginning with vaughn hillyard outside new orleans. reporter: hurricane ida one week later has left louisiana in a debilitating state. me? oh, yeah i ain t staying here nope reporter: did you lose your roof yes, all my shingles are gone and my wooden fence around the house is all flat, and i don t have no water. reporter: structural devastation, a lack of supplies, hundreds of thousands still without power. now battling overwhelming heat. hundreds this weekend taken by bus out of
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through and those temperatures are so difficult to handle right now. and health officials also saying they have confirmed the deaths of seven nursing home patients evacuate today a temporary shelter ahead of hurricane ida. five of the deaths are said to be storm related. yeah, so the warehouse where they were taken was overwhelmed with hundreds of nursing home evacuees and apparently sanitary conditions inside the facility have been described as appalling. as you can imagine, their relatives are outraged. cnn s brian todd has more. this was a nightmare. reporter: local leaders looking for answers for what went wrong. that nursing home owner a should be health accountable. as far as the investigation we understand there is one. reporter: the warehouse in independence, louisiana, served as a temporary evacuation facility for 800 patients from seven area nursing homes. the conditions inside were appalling. crowding. mattresses on floors instead of