neighborhood look look like. all the families belongings in the front yard, their entire lives now garbage picked up on the side of the road, during the day we ve been seeing families coming out here trying to recover whatever they can. hallie, right now, they are desperate. a lot of them are saying that we re all still in the middle of a pandemic here. right. already hit hard by that and now they feel like they can t keep up with these storms that they ve been dealing with as well. hallie? isa, thanks. down south to vaughn hillyard in lafitte, louisiana. lafitte we kept hearing from officials over the last week, incredibly hard-hit, eight days ago the storm hit but still spots near where you are that are underwater even now? hallie, half a million in louisiana are still without power here and just take a look at some of the footage we shot
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concerns about it. dr. uche blackstock, thank you very much for your perspective and being with us this morning. we appreciate it. we turn to the latest in the aftermath of ida. we are still talking about it, why? because it is still a developing story. you have tomorrow president biden back on the road, visiting new york and new jersey, looking at the devastation in two communities. you see them there, manville, new jersey, queens, new york, devastated by flooding from this rainfall. issa gutierrez is in new jersey, vaughn hillyard in louisiana. the new jersey governor murphy as we speak, 10:00 this morning is about to visit another hard-hit spot of the state before president biden comes to where you are. reporter: that s right, hallie. good morning. residents here in manville, new jersey, are simply overwhelmed. they don t know where to go from here and they re really looking for answers for guidance, for assistance from the president tomorrow, and also from the
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.