helicopter. it s on the ground and in people s faces. they have cooling centers now, but they say they re going to open a temporary shelter for people with special needs, people with medical needs, and that is not opiate. initially they said thursday, and then that changed to friday, and yesterday the mayor said saturday. for a lot of people that is way, way too late. of course the storm hit on sunday. what i appreciate about your reporting is yes, know electricity, but it affects their ability to work, there is a heat wave, b the water fly, everything. vaughn, we know that holma was right in ida s path. they felt the wrath, what are you seeing there today? if anyone suggests that the necessary supplies are here, that is wrong.
the mayor of new orleans has imposed a night time curfew to try to stem crime in the wake of the devastation caused by hurricane ida. hundreds of thousands of people in the state of louisiana are still without electricity, tap water or fuel after the storm hit on sunday. the number of weather related disasters has increased five fold across the globe over the past 50 years, according to the world meteorological 0rganisation. its report says the sharp rise is because of climate change, more extreme weather and better reporting. more than two million people are said to have died as a result of over 11,000 disasters in half a century. 0ur environment correspondent matt mcgrath reports. as the slow moving hurricane ida pummelled louisiana in recent days, it caused catastrophic damage and left millions without power. weather related disasters like ida have increased in number in recent decades,
one was evacuated. at this point about 10 of the state s nearly 700 nursing homes are still without full power. back to you. gabe, i m looking at your time line. you say 3:00 a.m. wednesday morning is when the 9-1-1 calls started to go out to police. the storm hit on sunday. does that facility offer any explanation about why it didn t act on monday, tuesday, before it became a deadly crisis? reporter: no. that s the big question right now. nobody can seem to figure out why they weren t evacuated sooner. they insist they prepared for hurricane irma and had this backup generator and the portable ac units in place. that s why family members are frustrated, especially since there is another hospital literally right across the street. authorities are now trying to figure out why that 9-1-1 call wasn t made sooner. and at 3:00 a.m., 4:00 a.m., and it took several hours for these folks to be evacuated.
but you are using a lot of that money for other things. exactly right. thank you. days after the blizzard stopped new york s jfk airport, they are still trying to clear the backlog. thousands of stranded passengers, planes left on tarmacs for hours. six and a half hours. that was the wait for these flights. if you can give us an update, what s the situation like now there at jfk? the good news is they have more runways open. four of them are open now to jfk. that means more flights will be coming in. naturally it will take several more days to take care of the bag log that has been accumulating since the storm hit