alison barber is in hard his manfield, new jersey, again. alison, how are folks doing there today? >> they are working to try to rebuild what they can. we saw some insurance adjustors arrive here and that is promising. people are glad to see that, but you just look around all of this and people lost everything. they say many of them that they appreciate the words and they hope the process to get them financial assistance is around under way because they need it days ago. this is one family's home, one family's things. they live in this house, and they were home when the flood waters rushed in. that is 7-year-old zac ri's bedroom. the mother and his two drs are at work. they waited on the roof here for help. we're going to listen to some of what he told us that night. this is 7-year-old zack ri. >> my mom has to unscrew the condition so we can get out. so we were saved by the rest cue team. we climbed in the roof and then the person picked and carried me up to the boat and then they did it with the others. >> pretend i'm president joe biden, what would you ask? >> can you please hel

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monica alba is at the white house, alison barber is in new orleans where a lot of folks are waiting in long lines for basic necessities for things like ice, gas, charging stations. monica, first of all, what should we expect to hear from the president when he does start those remarks? >> president biden has been in touch, of course, with the governors of louisiana and mississippi multiple times over the last few days. we can expect a tactical update on his discussions with those leaders and all of the efforts happening right now. but also we expect an update on where ida went after it hit the southeast, of course. that is the catastrophic flooding. you have been covering so far this hour, in the northeast we know the president spent the morning also talking with the governor's of new york and new jersey and has been in touch with other local officials to try to help them as well in is now, of course, a multi-impact declaration of emergencies. the plth be talking about all of that and what they have been able to do so far in terms of what fema has been able to do. for families in need o

first up, in new orleans where alison barber is. we see the trucks in the background.ring power to new orleans? >> reporter: in new orleans right now, they have about 20% power back in this area. the main energy company, entergy, they've brought in thousands of people, thousands of teams, many of them coming from out of state to try to help. right now they say best-case scenario, they expect for the majority of new orleans to have power back next week, wednesday, september 8th, and other parts of the state particularly hard hit like st. charles parish, they're not expected to see power until the end of the month. in new orleans, they did not open any temporary shelters, but they say buses will be running today to take people who want to head to one of the state-run shelters about an hour away from here to those public state-run shelters. the convention center right here, it is supposed to be a temporary shelter for people with special or medical needs starting today, but as you can see, the signs -- it still says it's not a shelter. initially the mayor said they were g

and nbc's alison barber is in manville, new jersey, and that's one of the stops on the president's trip, and rehema ellis is where the president will also be visiting. more than a dozen people killed in new york city alone, and officials there say it should be a wake-up call about future storms. what are they hoping to show president biden today during this visit? >> reporter: they want to show him what is happening on this street, craig, and so many others throughout the community. while the sun is shining it's a very dark cloud hanging over people here. i am almost 5'8", and in some homes the water level was above my head. look inside ray's house where his parents live, they are in their late 80s and 90s, and everything in the basement is gone, it was devastated, damaged. he says it was not just the wooden things and the furniture, but listen to what he says how powerful this water was. >> this is what remains of the wall. so when the water came in here, it created like a swimming pool, and then it was pushed. anybody that would have been on that side would have been dead. >> reporter

msnbc's allison barber is in mississippi checking in with the icu overwhelmed with patients one month ago. alison, i know last month the staff that you talked to at the hospital said they were feeling desperate. what did they say this time? >> yeah. because remember whenever you have a situation where they are seeing a massive influx of patients needing hospital level care because of covid-19, all the other medical needs people have, those don't stop. so you have this ripple effect where they just simply don't have the resources, the staff available to handle all of it. that's really what we saw happening here just one month ago. today the doctors, the nurses, the respiratory therapists, they all say things have become much more manageable right now. but they also say they're not out of the woods yet. listen. >> how would you describe things now compared to a month, a month and a half ago? >> so under control. whereas before we felt that we were literally drowning. it doesn't feel like that anymore. going forward, i am hopeful that this curve will continue on the trajectory, keep going down. we'l