very worried about how long were we going to be there? did they actually even know if a rescue train was going to be able to reach us? and why there weren t more clear plans for an issue like this. yeah. well, camila, i m glad you re okay at least. i i can t believe what you and the other passengers had to go through. um, but i m glad you re you re safe. thank you so much for talking with us. i wish you the best. thank you so much. yeah. happily. everyone i know on the train got home safe so i hope they are doing well at home now. thank you. what a journey. wow. as for louisiana where hurricane ida first struck over the weekend, the storm s effects will fester for the coming days and weeks. tragically, the state department of health is reporting deaths of four nursing home patients. evacuated to a warehouse the department said quote had deteriorating conditions. cnn s brian todd now joins me. is there any estimate that when more people will be getting power back, at this po
of health is reporting the deaths of four nursing home patients. they were evacuated ahead of the storm along with stefrl hundred other patients from several nursing homes to a warehouse they said had deteriorating conditions. brian todd joins me. is there any estimate as to when people will get power back at this point? reporter: anderson, they re careful not to give estimates but there has been progress made despite this being a really slow grind. we re told by energy officials here that roughly 140,000 customers have had their power restored. but out of close to a million female. you can see that that is just not fast enough. for so many people who are here. they re frustrated by it. we re also told bill nrg louisiana that they ve restored power to at least 10 hospitals in southeast louisiana. they ve restored power to several sewage treatment plants. so again, some progress made but it is a slow grind and a dangerous one. we ll illustrate that right here. this is in kenner. this
says 167,000 customers have the lights back on. hopefully not weeks. the progress that we re seeing on the ground has really moved progress forward that we haven t seen in the past. it s always been gradual. there s nothing new here. there s never one switch and the whole city is lit. the louisiana health department is now investigating the deaths of four nursing home patients. they were in a group of seven different nursing homes that were evacuated to a location about 1 1/2 hours northwest of new orleans. they have died, three of the deaths are considered by the health department to be storm related. martha? martha: thanks, mike. so on this note, before we let you go, 76 years ago today, world war ii ended with japan signing of the instrument of surrender aboard the u.s.s.
cole delivered some bad news to new york that is not new information. she changed the official covid talents in new york state by using the cdc number instead of the new york number as reported by andrew cuomo. the cdc number of deaths is 33, 000, that s about 12,000 higher one reported by the cuomo administration. many of those deaths were nursing home patients who apparently suffered from covid and died by covid, but we re not tested one for covid. what on npr, was hochul described the change would.
word. new york governor kathy hochul delivered some bad news to new york that is not actually new information. she changed the official count of covid deaths by using the cdc number instead of the state of new york s number as reported by former governor andrew cuomo. the cdc s number of total deaths from covid in new york state is 55,395. that is about 12,000 higher than the number reported by the cuomo administration. many of those deaths were nursing home patients who apparently suffered from covid and died but were not tested for covid. today, on npr, the governor explained the change. the public deserves a clear, honest picture of what is happening. whether it s good or bad, they