and just tossed this car. authorities say the water level was up to 14 feet high across the northeast, the death toll from ida s remnants is up to at least 51 people. this video from the nypd shows officers frantically trying to reach a flooded basement when specialized rescue teams got there, they found three people had already drowned. did you expect this much water no, nobody did. reporter: back in new jersey, it took richard mumber 11 hours to get back home to check if his home was okay his wife and family now safe, but shaken we were watching people getting picked off their roofs with helicopters. it was like something out of a movie wow, gabe there are stil people missing in new jersey yeah, that s right, kate the governor says four people are still missing. this is already one of the deadliest storms in the state s history, eclipsed only by superstorm sandy almost a decade ago.
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