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let's go "outfront". and good evening, everyone. i'm in for erin burnett, breaking news. president biden in louisiana, he's now meeting with local leaders there after surveying the catastrophic damage from hurricane ida. the presidencycyt seeing unreleg storm that hit louisiana and mississippi. a storm that left 800,000 people there still without power. >> there is much to be done. we're working around the clock with the governor and the elected officials there until we can meet every need y'all have. >> as you can see from these images, new images, the cleanup has just begun. and even days later, the flood waters have yet to reseed in somepl places. with the sweltering heat, no power, no water, food and fuel shortages, many people on the ground are begins to fear the

worst. >> i got to sleep in the car. my kids are hot. we hungry. we going to die in here. where is fema? where is the red cross? we need help now. >> there is an urgent need for help across the northeast, as well. the death toll rising to 50 there as rescue crews continue to search for survivors after the remanence of ida tore through the region. in pennsylvania roads and homes are still under water. in new jersey where 25 people were killed, at least six people there are still missing. including two people who witnesses say were swept into a storm drain by flood waters. a lot to get into. pete is in hard hit pennsylvania but i want to begin with ed laug lev d how are things five days after

the catastrophe? >> reporter: every day is a reminder how long this process will take and how long it will take for things to get back to normal. here in the town where we are where the president visited today that it will take weeks to get the electrical infrastructure rebuilt so that the power can get turned back on and there is a great deal of structural damage that people are just now really getting to the point where they can begin sifting through their belongings. there are many people that have come and picked up what they can and left the area. this is where the president visited today to make that point and to try to remind people and to let them know that the federal government is doing to be here throughout this process, but, you know, this is all a long term process and it doesn't turn the lights on today or tomorrow or this weekend and that is the reality that so many people here in this region are facing, that it's weeks away

from getting the power turned back on as the head index flies over 100 degrees. the days are long and brutal here. >> sweltering heat this time of year in louisiana. ed lavandera thank you so much. across the north east, many residents are trying to recover after deadly flooding from the remanence of ida. pete is in pennsylvania. >> reporter: cleanup across the east coast is just beginning in cities and towns large and small. in center city, philadelphia crews are racing to clean the expressway, deep water is being diverted into the slowly draining river. >> the recovery process for this will take months. >> reporter: the ef-2 tornado that swirled through fort washington pennsylvania killed one woman when a tree fell on her house. the twister then targeted the high school, township building, police department and ron copeland's neighborhood. >> it's devastating. it really is to see this.

you never think it can happen to you. you never think it's going to happen in your neighborhood, but unfortunately, there is the proof. it did. >> reporter: the new numbers are becoming more gruesome. across new york, authorities say 11 people were killed when their basement apartments turned into death traps. >> these are people's lives. these are people's homes. these are people's vehicles. these are people that have been traumatized with car rescues and getting people out of their home and apartments. >> reporter: tom wolf surveyed where officials counted 467 calls for water rescues on wednesday night alone. how much of this damage do you attribute to climate change? >> most of it. i think fewer and fewer people are climate deniers these days. the more you see this kind of thing, the indiscriminate and intense nature of the storms i'm not sure how you can sit on the

sideline and say we don't need to do anything. >> reporter: forth washington fire chief says his childhood neighborhood was crushed by this storm of unprecedented power. now leaving an unimaginable toll. >> be patient. check on your neighbors and, you know, we're going to get through this and clean it up and rebuild and we're going to be stronger than we were before as a result of this. >> reporter: behind me is the township building that was hit by that ef-2 tornado and this was its roof peeled off like a tuna can. one more thing missing here from the high school across the street. the fire chief says there was a row of dumpsters there but one of those dumpsters has disappeared, a sign of how strong the winds were here. beyond the mortal toll of 50 deaths, there will be a massive monetary toll associated and tom wolf of pennsylvania told me live on the air, it is too soon to say officially how much all of this cleanup will cost. >> pete, i just can't wrap my

head around those images behind you. it sure rule and as many are saying this may be our new normal, thank you so much. "outfront" now democratic congressman of new jersey. his district saw several deaths and some of the worst flooding in the state. thank you for joining us. you yourself had damage in your home. i believe you had 4 feet of water in your basement and garage. i know you've been touring your district today and meeting with residents there. how extensive is the damage that you've seen? >> yeah, you mentioned i had a bunch of water in my basement and garage and when i talk to other people, my neighbors, i feel lucky because what happened to me is nothing compared to what happened to thousands and thousands of families across this part of new jersey. it's devastating. we had the lose ofs of life. many, many people suffering damage. a lot of infrastructure damage, bridges, roads that will have to be replaced and on top of that,

you know, people feel tired that this just keeps on happening with increasing frequency. they look to the future with trepidation knowing that. >> yeah, it's horrifying to think of what is to come and we're just starting the hurricane season this year. what are residents telling you they need now? >> we need a lot of help for cleanup and individual homeowners and president biden has begun that process, but we still need a decision from the white house that the full range of fema benefits are going to be available including for homeowners who need to rebuild for our local governments that have these infrastructure costs for people who lost their homes. that's something i'll be fighting hard for in congress in the coming weeks. >> yeah, we heard the president earlier today saying that insurance companies really do

need to step up now. i want to follow up on the point about fema. earlier, we heard from residents in louisiana begging for fema to do more. they have gone days now without water in some cases and fuel in the sweltering heat there. are you getting all the resources that you need right now from the federal government? >> well, right now, this hit us a little bit later than louisiana. we've only been at this for a couple of days. i think our local governments, state government have the assurance they need from president biden they will be reimbursed for insurance cost but we don't have the assurance that individuals that lost part of their homes need, that fema will help them make up for the losses. we can start repairs but who will pay for the repairs is lingering question. then of course, that's the immediate stuff. we have to use this as a wakeup

call to deal with climate change. >> i just can't -- i can't get over last sunday. people in new jersey and new york were reaching out to loved ones in new orleans thinking of them and worrying about them, not even knowing what would transpired in their own backyards just four days later. the loss of life, obviously, these are numbers we haven't seen and new jersey's governor said the 25 people are dead, six people are missing in your state alone. are you expecting those numbers to rise? >> i fear they will, and to your point, you know, it's not lost on anybody here. this is not a hurricane that hit new jersey. this is a hurricane that hit louisiana 1,000 miles away and just the remanence of a storm are causing this much damage in this part of the country. you know, this is about as much damage or more in the communities i represent than we had from the cat inastrophic

hurricane sandy years ago. that tells you how this increasing intensity of storms is affecting us and so, you know, good news. we have an infrastructure bill that's going to add more than $50 billion to our efforts to be more resilient, flood control, storm water management. the bad news is we can't keep building bigger and bigger dikes. we got to move this country away from fossil fuels to clean energy and move the world and lead the world in that direction or the engineering we're doing now is going to be useless and outdated 20 years from now. >> congress man, we can agree nobody wants to see these kind of storms become the new normal going forward. best of luck to you and your repairs. i know you said you were among the lucky ones. thank you for joining us. have a good weekend. >> thank you. "out frnontfront" next more 400 warehouse residents forced to ride ida out.

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tonight, louisiana's attorney general launching an investigation into the deaths of four nursing home residents during hurricane ida. the four victims were packed into a warehouse with nearly 800 other nursing home residents who rode out the storm in shocking conditions. for the first time as you see here, we're getting inside the warehouse. two nurses describing the horrendous conditions inside. one saying quote it smells like nothing but feces and urine. i watch people lie in their feces and people slept on the cement floor. "outfront" now is an investigative reporter and joins us and spoke with two of the nurses. andrea, thank you so much for joining us. this is just a gut wrenching story and i know that these nurses felt so strongly about what they saw that they needed

to speak out. what more did they tell you about the conditions that they found? >> thank you for having me. you're right. the nurses felt extremely haunted by the conditions that they saw inside of the shutter where they evacuated with patients. they said nursing home residents from other facilities were lying on the ground in total filth, that a lot of them were lying in their feces, crying out, begging for help, begging to be changed and that other workers were just passing by them and ignoring them and they said that things got worse after the storm hit because the shelter lost air conditioning and trash piled up. there was a lot of problems with the bathrooms. toilets were over flowing and they were disgusted by it. >> what is so heartbreaking about this is these people were brought to rescue them, right? they were brought to this warehouse to save their lives and yet, here we are with

several dead. i want to read a quote froe nurses told you people were so please help me, i'm thirsty, i need to be changed. the nurses said the hardest thing we had to do is keep walking and not help them. that was one of the hardest things i had to do. they were so taken aback by this they don't know if they can continue to be nurses. >> that's right. both of them said they love their profession of nursing but felt like after spending several days inside of this warehouse and seeing the inhumane conditions, they both felt like kind of moral line had been crossed and neither of them believe that they will go back to their current jobs at this south lafourche nursing home center where they worked and both are considering leaving the profession entirely. >> i can imagine how emotionally scarring that must have been. the patients came from switch

nu -- seven nursing homes owned by one man that cnn learned owns the warehouse. he did not respond to cnn's request for comment but he said we only have five deaths within the six days and normally, with 850 people, you'll have a couple a day. we did really good with taking care of people. i mean, how heartless could one be? i don't understand how that could possibly be a defense. >> that's a good question and a lot of the families of these 800 plus nursing home residents are fur furious. they are demanding answers and say they want to see bob dean prosecuted. they're just totally disgusted by the situation but i don't know if it should have been that much of a surprise. when you look back, bob dean has been owning nursing homes in louisiana for decades and all of them have horrific track records

there are lots of stories about people at his nursing homes dying. there is one a disabled man who was ignored for a few hours when he was in a whirlpool and he died. another woman who was coming out of her nose and eyes when a nurse found her. things like that that bob dean's nursing homes have gotten in trouble with inspectors for and yet, he's had a license. >> hopefully he'll be held to account now that an investigation has been launched. nobody should have to die this way. thank you, andrea, so much for your reporting. >> thank you. and right now, president biden is wrapping up his tour of louisiana where he vowed his full support for the recovery efforts. >> we are in this together. we're not going to leave any community behind, rural, city, coastal inland and i promise we'll have your backs until this gets done. >> "outfront" now jackelyn, president of st. john the

baptist parish one of the hardest hit areas in the state. she met with president biden today and joins me now by phone. thank you so much for taking the time to talk to us. what did you tell president biden when you met with him? >> and thank you for having me this afternoon. you know, first, i think president biden and our governor and local officials for the work they have done and for continuing to ramp up those efforts and more importantly, i thanked him for calling out insurance companies for attempting to distinguish between mandatory and volunvoluntary ry evacuations residents. >> he said nobody was leaving their home for vacation. this was desperation. many still without access to reliable cell coverage and water. this is five days later.

is any progress grelsz bei bein get the services restored for more. >> reporter: dresidents? >> reporter:residents?rer resid? >> there is progress being made. we have some water in some communities. even the water coming through the system is not enough but more if you don't have any, it's still something. there is no power anywhere in the parish and we're still struggling with communications. when we were in neighborhoods today just assessing these on the ground, many people don't know of all of the places we have available for pod sites, with ice and water and food distribution because they don't have communications and/or they don't have any electricity to charge up the communications they do have. >> quickly, jackelyn, what's the best way firefighter those who need to reach out to you can? >> the best way is to just keep in touch with -- we put things

on our website, social media, those things. i am on the news every single day so we're attempting to get out information. we do have fema beginning to go into the neighborhoods to reach out to individuals that are unreachable right now so we just ask them to stay connected with us. >> jackelyn, best of luck to you and your community in these difficult days and weeks ahead. we appreciate your time. >> thank you so much. yes, ma'am, thank you. "out frfront" next, confuse about the rolling out of booster shots. alousy jobs report putting president biden on the defense of his handling of the economy. with secret, keep it fresh. available in over 10 amazing scents and aluminum free. secret there's no other snack like a planters cashew. what else can go from your car's cup holder

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tonight the white house may be forced to scale back the plan to get booster shots for vaccinated adults. president biden announced last month his administration plans to offer boosters starting september 20th telling amany -- americans to prepare for a third

shot eight months of the second dose. his plan got ahead of the fda and cdc. the booster plan may be limited to those who received the pfizer vaccine because they don't have enough information from moderna or johnson & johnson. arlet, this is clearly a setback for a white house that's been toting this booster plan with a date in a few weeks. >> the biden administration hoped they would be able to offer booster shots for pfizer and moderna but long said that any decision about and plan for booster shots would depend on that fda approval and review process. now, a source familiar with the discussions who i spoke with earlier today told me that the plan for pfizer is still on track to get approved by that september 20th time frame that the biden administration set. moderna is more complicated. this source said there was inadequate data and they needed

more data from moderna and needed that time to review the data, as well. this afternoon, ma oderna said they completed their submission to the fda today. there is now a question of whether that might change the calculous on whether an approval process might be able to go forward for moderna before that september 20th time frame. this comes as fda officials had tried to ask the white house previously not to set a specific deadline -- time frame or deadline for getting these booster shots out but that is something that they decided to go forward with anyway. so now, in the coming aeing wee they are reviewing that data, they are on track for pfizer to be available for september 20s but moderna is in question and one thing the acting commissioner said this week is that they still needed to put forward a plan to that they're not caught flat footed once this

is approved by the fda. in the coming weeks, we should get more clarity how soon both of those booster shots might be available and johnson & johnson is a bit further behind as they're still waiting for more data. >> clearly, this administration in a race against time now with this delta variant continuing to spike across the country. arlet, thank you. >> for more on this, i want to bring in dr. jonathan reiner who advised the white house medical team under president george w. bush. i know i believe you have a few opinions an this, as well. let's make clear this isn't about whether booster shots in general offer protection. we know from real world data from israel they do. does this confusion come from the white house getting ahead of the scientists because this something administration said it would not do. >> what a mess bianna. we relied on data from israel to

understand how the efficacy of our vaccine wane and how much you can boost it by giving it an additional shot. the problem is israel has given entirely the pfizer vaccine so while i think there is robust data to support a third shot for the 55% of americans who received the pfizer vaccine, this is much less data to support the use of boosting the moderna vaccine and there is even less data for the johnson & johnson vaccine, which many vaccine scientists think actually is in greatest need of a boost. yet, two weeks ago, both acting commission -- acting fda commissioner and cdc director walensky basically jointly said we would be boosting everyone at the end of the september. they did this despite the fact

that the fda office tasked with approving changes to vaccine usage had not met and had not yet convened their experts. so they certainly got ahead of their skis and it seems now certainly they will have to back off. >> of course, this seems to create two headaches, not just one because for those who have headed moderna vaccine and the j&j vaccine, they had been waiting for this september 20 date and that may or may not happen now but i think more importantly, correct me if i'm wrong, there are still millions of americans get to get one dose of any vaccine and this may cause them to pause on getting another one because of this confusion. >> right. so about 25% of adults have yet to get vaccinated, and many people were concerned about safety. other people were concerned about efficacy, but, you know, whatever the reason why people

have with held getting vaccinated having this kind of muddled message coming out of cdc, fda and administration does not help. >> we know many of those who have yet to get a vaccine are skeptical are relying on former president trump and everything he says and he just today said that he is unlikely to get a booster shot. this is what he told the wall street journal. i want to read this for you. he said i feel like i'm in good shape from that standpoint. i probably won't. i'm not against it but it's probably not for me. he is saying he's not against it but we know many of his supporters oppose vaccines. this isn't going to help anything, is it? >> it almost seems like this is intentional sabotage. only about half of the people that voted for him have been vaccinated. that's what the polls suggest. and if you're looking to send a signal to people that vaccines are safe and that the information you're getting from the cdc and fda is accurate and

important and real, you would stl strengthen it by saying yes, as soon as boosters are available i'm getting it. yet, he says i don't think i need it. it's not like he's reviewed all of the data. he's just riffing but his riff really resonates with the people that listen to him. >> there are real life consequences, too. we wouldn't be talking about the need for boosters if more americans were vaccinated with the first and second dose. thank you for coming on. appreciate your expertise. have a good weekend. >> you, too. "outfront" next surging covid cases, climate clierisis, afghanistan and president biden dealing with an economy facing serious headwinds and an afghan forced to leave parents behind before flying to the u.s. fears for his family's safety and tonight, he has a message for the president.

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him right now, would this be high up on the list of concerns? >> well, first, i'd advise and remind him of history, which is the last three, four, fooi pres -- five presidents have gone through the late summer, early fall. president bush went through it, president clinton went through it. stay focused on the long term on this and get through the months of hard stuff. i think more important than anything is containing the covid epidemic, which then directly affects our economy. both of those things go together and are enteinner locked togeth and will determine the jobs approval rating will determine what happens in the midterms. all of those lineup but it is august of 2021. a lot of time left. and i also think it's not only -- it's not only the delta variant, there is psychological

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>> it was really bad. one minute is like one day. >> reporter: the former translator worked alongside u.s. forces for four years. he applied for a special immigrant visa more than two years ago. zubi was a lucky one, it was granted two days before the taliban over took kabul. zubi needed to get his family to the airport. he and his father both worked with the u.s. government and they knew if they stay in kabul, their lives would be in danger. zubi was getting text messages from friends also trying to escape. >> says it's like horror movie. he says that taliban are like zombies. >> reporter: what were you thinking watching this? >> i thought i can't get out of kabul. >> reporter: he was on his own with visa in hand, he spent days trying to get himself and his family past the taliban. with no help from the americans he says. >> the taliban was behaving very bad.

most of them were beating people. i was seeing this, i caught gate inside the kabul airport. >> reporter: his father. >> i leave him at the gate. the last afghanistan. >> you didn't get to say good-bye? >> no. >> reporter: the couple fled with just these three bags, leaving everything else behind. family, friends, and former co-workers. a fellow translator says he was days away from getting his visa when the taliban took over. he is still stuck in kabul. he asked we not disclose his name or show his face for his safety. >> people like me, there are a lot of people like me who was working with the same company. we all left behind. so we are currently, we are receiving the threats, my family and my life is really in great

danger. >> reporter: his plea to the u.s. government. >> my message to mr. president joe biden is don't leave us behind. >> reporter: zubi calls friends of his left behind daily. he says his mom is too heartbroken to speak with him, but he keeps hope. >> i have hope that one day there will be, today in america, i see him here alive. >> reporter: in the meantime, he and his wife are starting over with help from a resettlement agency, journey's end rbg services, which expects to assist many more afghan families in the coming months. they feel safe here, they can finally sleep and dream about what lies ahead. >> the feeling that i will start everything again, it looks like a mountain, very high mountain. now i am looking how i can climb this mountain. i should find a way.

>> don't leave us behind. very powerful message to president biden. well, out front next, a first look at a cnn special on the 16 second graders who had a front row to history on 9/11.

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ordering the release of classified documents related to the fbi's 9/11 investigation. and this weekend cnn revisits the defining moment 20 years after the attacks. president bush learning of the attack while visiting a classroom. in a special report, victor blackwell talks to the teachers and students about those first few minutes. >> reporter: how long was your moment? >> it could have been two minutes, three minutes, but i knew i had to get back to the kids. so i didn't want them to think that they had done something wrong, so i had to let them know it was not their fault. >> something in the way that you presented it to us, like, allowed me to understand that, like, the human side of it, that, like, i am not the most important person right now,

like, he's got something he has do. people are hurting. he has to leave and that's okay and it's not our fault. >> i think after that, that's when, you know, they put on the tv for us. >> those americans who are looking at horrific pictures. >> then it came together, like i grasped how serious it was. >> i think myself and main other students thought it was like a movie or something. >> it didn't look real. >> the tv was here. you took them to a different room? >> the monitor that president bush had was in his office next door. the memory of it might fluctuate a little. after i came out of the room i told them what happened. the pictures and the images that they saw, they might have seen them when the door was open, but the tv network came in here. i was very careful about how much i exposed them to and what

i said to them. >> reporter: that was the first day i learned the word trits, too. >> yeah. >> victor blackwell joins me now. victor, i can't believe this hasn't been done before because that was such an iconic moment seeing president bush there, andy card, chief of staff, whispers in his ear the u.s. is under attack of the. the take away for the students, what kind of impact did being so close to the president on that day have for them? >> this is the only place you will see these students together on the 20th anniversary. they are still working through that. what i heard from most of the students and the teacher, mrs. daniels, there is a degree of guilt. they use that word, guilt. something like a survivor's guilt because it was so much bigger than their reading with the president, than they are being con graphlated for lifting their grades. as they got older they learned about the thousands of people who lost their lives and to be connected in this way and to not

have that loss that so many others had, they really, most of them, are reluctant to talk about it. mrs. daniels for years didn't talk about it. they describe a duty to make sure that this part of this narrative, of this story is also shared, and only they can tell that portion of the story. >> and to hear mrs. daniels say it was her job to protect those students and tell them it wasn't their fault, you went to the 9/11 memorial with them. what was that tour like? >> she said it was a dream to take her babies, as she called them, there. it was closure for them to now see the memorial, to see the pools, to see the names. this was something she waited 20 years to do. she had not come to new york because she didn't want to do it without them, and to see that this all came together for them, it was a moving moment. you will see it on sunday night. >> you just made me realize this is something i wanted to see for 20 years, too, to see their faces all grown up. victor blackwell, thank you so much. and don't miss that report front

row to history, the 9/11 classroom sunday night at 10:00 eastern. thank you for joining us tonight. ac 360 starts right now. good evening. the death toll on the east coast from the remnants of hurricane ida is now at least 50 people. alive report from louisiana where the storm hit and president biden visited today. we begin though with a speed bump on the administration's road to covid boosters by the 20th of this month. as you know, that's the date the president announced just last month. >> pending approval from the food and drug administration, the cdc's committee of outside experts will be ready to start these boosters, this booster program through the week of september 20. in which time anyone vaccinated on or before january 20 will be eligible to get a booster shot. >> well, that was the president on