The other would likely follow soon thereafter. Im 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 idas 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. Lets begin with Polo Sandoval in New York. Video released toDay By the nypd of
Top of the hour. This week states on three coasts of thei iu. S. Have been rocked by extreme weather. This is the cost of Climate Change and ignoring it. At least 23 people have died. More than 1300 miles away from louisiana where the storm first made landfall, the Heat Index could hit 110 Degrees Today in New Orleans and baton rouge. Those are places that are not expected to have widespread power back for weeks. Lets not forget about the west coast. Severe drought and dry conditions are fuelling wildfires there in places that used to be paradise. Firefighters are working around the clock to contain the blaze at lake tahoe. If we do not act now, we will continue to see the wrath of mother nature. The past few days of Hurricane Ida and the wildfires in the west and the unprecedented Flash Floods in New York and New Jersey is another reminder that these extreme storms and the Climate Crisis are here. We need to act. Well talk more about that in just a moment. First lets get you to some o