The other would likely follow soon thereafter. I m amara walker in atlanta in for pamela brown. You are in the cnn newsroom. One full week after hurricane ida slammed louisiana and the death toll is still climbing. The details are horrifying. In louisiana, more than 600,000 homes and businesses are still without power. And the merciless heat proved fatal for an elderly man in new orleans. It could take several more weeks to restore power to everyone in the state. In new york, heroism and heartbreak from ida s deadly visit there. This is a new york police officer wading into chest deep waters wednesday to investigate reports of people inside the flooded basement of a home with stuffed animals and toys bobbing in the filthy, murky water. The officers were blocked by locked doors and live electricity. Firefighters brought in specialized equipment and discovered the bodies of three people, all of whom had drowned. Let s begin with polo sandoval in new york. Video released today by the nypd
Newsroom. I m jim acosta in washington. Desperate acts in the wake of hurricane ida. Six victims are dead after an evacuation gone incredibly wrong. They were among many that were evacuated to a warehouse with deplorable conditions. Nearly onethird of gas stations are without fuel, some people waiting for five hours to fill their tanks just so they can sit in their cars with airconditioning, the desperation and frustration boiling over on friday. One person was fatally shot in line at a gas station in jefferson parish. In the northeast, at least 50 people died from the storm. Half the fatalities are in new jersey where flash floods demolished basements and tore through buildings. On tuesday president biden will visit new york and new jersey to survey the damage. Nadia is here for us. Nadia, what are people in new orleans telling you? they sound like they re fed up with this. Reporter: yeah, jim, everyone is tired because they said we made it through hurricane ida, but it s the aftermat
Seen before in the region. Recordbreaking, major expressways completely flooded in new york city. Passenger rail service shut down across the northeast. Torrential rain flooded people out of their homes. There is only sadness and it is just overwhelming. So where we are is that we have to start from scratch as we are mourning. We have to see how we can move on. The nypd says more than 800 passengers were rescued. Look at that, from the new york city subway system. The department says that it made hundreds of other rescues including a livery driver on a flooded road in central park. Officers also say a disabled man trapped inside his home when he asked about his dog, police went back and rescued the dog as well. One of the most extraordinary images this minor league stadium turned in to a lake this boundbrook new jersey. Polo sandoval is actually caught in floodwaters on the way there and he will join us soon. Fema has approved a temporary housing program for victims of hurricane ida in
Rule on emergency challenges to the law, meaning it went into effect just hours ago. Cnn s senior legal analyst laura coats explains how this law is different from others around the country. If you are talking about up ending the trimester framework not only of roe v. Wade but of subsequent decisions that talk about a woman s right to choose prior to the viability of a fetus, meaning it can actually exist and survive out of a womb. What they are doing is so sneaky, it needs to be explained even more. What they have done in texas is essentially said any person can sue anyone in a very vague term who aids and abets an abortion, meaning somebody who encourages it, who drives you to, somebody who may have donated money to an abortionrelated cause, that person could then have to pay a penalty of about $10,000. The idea of a plaintiff who might have to have something that they cannot reverse in the form of having a risk of imminent harm by a law, they can t now go to the courts to redress th
Preventable, hasty and dangerous exit from that country. The biden administration says it will now work with the taliban to get any remaining americans out. We re no longer on the ground in afghanistan to facilitate that kind of safe passage. It doesn t mean the administration or government is going to turn a blind eye to try to help them get home. We re heartbroken we weren t able to get every single one of them out before the end of the month but the environment bass definitely changing in a more dangerous tilt the last couple of days and we just couldn t do it. We ll stay committed. Harris: this development. Fox news hearing from anguished students at the american university in kabul who tried to get out but they were turned away at the airport. Nightmare right now. There is no hope for future under the taliban. We are really scared. We have no hope. We are hopeless. All the dreams have shattered through the blink of an eye actually. The developments, the advancements throughout the