entergy, the main power company in this part of the state, say these systems typically have redundancy built in, but all of it was wiped out by ida. contract crews from mp put up new power lines in new orleans this was a large-scale effort that required state troopers to entirely shut down interstate 10 so crews could run power lines across the road by hand. cables were hoisted up on other side and attached to utility poles. this is just a small piece of what it will take and more manpower is on the way entergy says 22,000 workers from 22 states will eventually make their way here from kansas and missouri they left for new orleans today and say they're anxious to get started. >> it's game day for us. our folks are trained, highly skilled and motivated. they're ready to go. we love to help the other utilities. it's just the right thing to do. >> reporter: entergy is facing criticism from local lawmakers and the governor for delays in the repairs in restoring the power. here is what governor edwards had to say. >> i'm not satisfied with 30 days the enterg people isn't satisfied with 30 d

thousands of entergy customers are still without power.ng residents struggling to get through another hot night. we feel in the family. the kids. it in the industry to go. he cites a burning out sunday morning entergy reported that 39% of customers in new orleans have power. but 10's of thousands of people are still in the dark and frustrated to say the least. >> i fear bay every a i felt like greece is about >> henry mcguffey last practically everything during ida and now he's trying to cook with the intense heat with no electricity in his so it not of it. great to be here. >> year. >> i put the >> entergy says i did devastated their transmission lines and say more electrical poles went down during ida the hurricane katrina delta and zeta combined. thousands of linemen are working across the area to restore power as quickly as possible. while locals tried to tolerate life without electricity from not patients and >> a lot of not one that has lobbied for the time. but. >> day by day and learn to entergy says most new orleans residents can

thousands of entergy customers are still without power. leaving residents struggling to get through another hot night. we feel in the family. the kids sterile. it in the industry because these lights are burning out sunday morning entergy reported that 39% of customers in new orleans have power. but 10's of thousands of people are still in the dark and frustrated to say the least. >> i fear bay every a i felt like greece is about out. >> henry mcguffey last practically everything during ida and now he's trying to cook with the intense heat with no electricity in his so it not of it. great to be here right now. >> every year. >> put the dog >> entergy says ida devastated their transmission lines and say more electrical poles went down during ida the hurricane katrina delta and zeta combined. thousands of linemen are working across the area to restore power as quickly as possible. while locals tried to tolerate life without electricity from not patients and >> a lot of not one that has lobbied for the time. but. >> day by day and learn to en

thousands of entergy customers are still without power.et through another hot night. we feel in the family. the kids it in the industry to go. he cites a burning out sunday morning entergy reported that 39% of customers in new orleans have power. but 10's of thousands of people are still in the dark and frustrated to say the least. >> i fear bay every a i felt like greece is a >> henry mcguffey last practically everything during ida and now he's trying to cook with the intense heat with no electricity in his so it not of it. great to be here. >> year. >> i put the >> entergy says i did devastated their transmission lines and say more electrical poles went down during ida the hurricane katrina delta and zeta combined. thousands of linemen are working across the area to restore power as quickly as possible. while locals tried to tolerate life without electricity from not patients >> a lot not one that has lobbied for the time. but. >> day by day and learn to entergy says most new orleans residents can expect power in a few days. but the wait

thousands of entergy customers are still without power. leaving residents struggling to get through another hot night. we feel in the family. the kids. it in the industry to go. he cites a burning out sunday morning entergy reported that 39% of customers in new orleans have power. but 10's of thousands of people are still in the dark and frustrated to say the least. >> i fear bay every a i felt like greece is about >> henry mcguffey last practically everything during ida and now he's trying to cook with the intense heat with no electricity in his so did not of it. great to be here. >> i put the >> entergy says i did devastated their transmission lines and say more electrical poles went down during ida the hurricane katrina delta and zeta combined. thousands of linemen are working across the area to restore power as quickly as possible. while locals tried to tolerate life without electricity from not patients and >> a lot of not one that has lobbied for the time. but. >> day by day and learn to entergy says most new orleans residents can ex

entergy is the largest utility company. joining me now, thank you for being here.rd that you say this morning that new orleans and baton rouge could get power back by early next week. is that for all of customers in both of those cities? >> first of all, thanks for having me. and the short answer is we believe that by the dates we've listed that 90% of the people who are able to safely take power will have power available. that is not the date at which we expect to flip the switch so that people are in a position of having to wait. we'll be bringing power back every day along the way in increments. but we want to give those dates to our customers for planning purposes. and kate, if you will allow me, for our customers, whether you're in the louisiana or mississippi or other parts of our service territory, and you've been impacted by the storm, we see you. we hear the voices of those customers because we're there, too, who are hot, who are frustrated. we want you to know that we're not going to stop working until the last person is brought back into service. and in

thousands of entergy customers are still without power.gling to get through another hot night. we feel in the family. the kids. it in the industry to go. he cites a burning out sunday morning entergy reported that 39% of customers in new orleans have power. but 10's of thousands of people are still in the dark and frustrated to say the least. >> i fear bay every a i felt like greece is a >> henry mcguffey last practically everything during ida and now he's trying to cook with the intense heat with no electricity in his so it not of it. great to be here. >> year. >> i put the >> entergy says i did devastated their transmission lines and say more electrical poles went down during ida the hurricane katrina delta and zeta combined. thousands of linemen are working across the area to restore power as quickly as possible. while locals tried to tolerate life without electricity from not patients and >> a lot of not one that has lobbied for the time. but. >> day by day and learn to entergy says most new orleans residents can expect power in a few

last night, the city'sayor said entergy expects most power outages to be restored by wednesday. >> to those residents who did evacuate and as they see power restored, we are saying you can come home. >> sreenivasan: at the height of the storm, nearly one million people were witht power. >> sreenivasan: for an update on the recovery efforts after hurricane ida's devastation in louisiana, newshour communities correspondent roby chavez joined us from new orleans earlier today. roby, last time we spoke with you, you were preparing for ida, and here you are now in the aftermath. what's the last few days been like? >> look, it's been a tough week. no power, no water, no food. it's been very, very tough for a lot of people, especially our folks who are on fixed incomes and low income. president biden came to town yesterday. that brought some smiles to folks. and he did what he always does: he was a consoler in chief. he spent several hours on the ground, handholding with folks, listening to them. he also brought some good news. he told them that fema was going to pay for their hotels if they

we did reach out to entergy for comment on this story. we didn't hear back from them. from black owned station when they spoke out about it. so the finances behind these utility companies are very intimidating when people are trying to fight against them. thank you so much logan burke for joining us and we'd love to have you back. >>> coming up next, football is back, and you know i'm excited to talk about sports but the season returns with plenty of issues from player vaccine controversies to nasty and belligerent fans. we're going to talk about that with michael smith. stay with us. with michael smith stay with us ♪♪ i thought i was managing my moderate to severe crohn's disease. then i realized something was missing... ...me. my symptoms were keeping me from being there for her. so, i talked to my doctor and learned humira is the #1 prescribed biologic for people with crohn's disease. the majority of people on humira saw significant symptom relief in as little as 4 weeks. and many achieved remission that can last. humira can lower your ability to fight infections. s

the claim alleges the company chose not to invest in underground transmission lines instead, entergysuper glue approach a spokesman for entergy says the company doesn't comment on pending lawsuits more than 20,000 homes and businesses are still without power more than three weeks after the storm hit. >>> the latest data from the labor department confirms what most of us already know. prices in america are on the rise take a look at this. price of eggs up nearly 30% over the past year. ground pebeef, 7% it's not just in the united states countries around the globe are dealing with it but in different ways >> reporter: around the world, consumers are grappling with the soaring cost f food. price at the highest level in a decade in new delhi, india, this man's family members no longer go to the grocery store. instead, they hunt out farmers markets where prices are more affordable >> my family would go to supermarkets now my dad takes special time to go to the farmer's market. just so that he can get all of those things for a little cheaper. >> reporter: expensive food is eating into his

well, our electrical department entergy is working hard at restoring it. back. unfortunately it was raining today. and of course when you just can't get out to the streets and it's pouring down rain, that's just going to delay things as you would expect. very, very difficult. i just got back from traveling to lafitte, which is outside of our levee protection system. this is a community that had very, very high water. some of the hardest things i've had to deal with is looking people in the face who just have lost everything. there's a quiet desperation about them. it's almost like there is no word. you can't even console them by saying, well, at least you're phys physically healthy. it's almost like i have guilt saying that and i have no words for these people. but we're strong people, we will rebuild. but it's just going to take some time in building the systems back together. as we go every day our water system, our sewer system improves. but again we're having difficulties. unfortunately we had another death that happened last night. someone got hit bec

entergy says they have now evaluated a little over a third of all of its infrastructure.ound 2,000 or so power poles that were ruptured. 422 damaged transformers, so when we hear about the glimmers of hope which is, of course, a great thing that an eastern new orleans they are seeing more power come on or at least a small bit of it, we're really looking at, you know, a much longer timeline maybe than what many folks would hope because entergy says it's going to be about three days until they have an estimation as to when power will come back. they have two options right now, they can try to restore the transformer lines but they can also create a grid island for the area of new orleans and focus on people getting people the power back right in the population center. one other thing. we were driving down the highway where i am right now. path of destruction, roofs crumpled and power lines down and we saw a ton of cars. didn't know what it was. we assumed initially it was gas. we've been seeing that all day. look at this video. 300 to 400 cars wrapped around about a mile an

so we've really been on entergy to get more lineman into our parish.ase today in our parish, the amount of linemen working. a small glimmer of hope and a small portion of our parish, a couple of streets in the months area did receive power yesterday evening. so just a small glimmer of home. i hope that is quickly. i'm pushing enter gy to beat that for 90% restoration. we're going to stay on top of them for that. >> let's hope they can. as i understand it and correct me if i'm wrong but you did not have any deaths directly related to hurricane ida, is that correct? >> no direct deaths at this point in time. but as we go through the recovery process, i'm sure we -- something may come up. we have seen a lot of folks getting heat stroke and other illnesses from not having access to medicine and that is why we worked real hard to get our pharmacies opened up and why we've been working with the sheriff's office to make sure to do wellness checks on our elderly population because you just can't sit in this type of hit for extended periods of time. >> right. t

as i mentioned, the utility provider entergy is doing an amazing job.s come online. obviously the priority is getting power to hospitals and major industrial businesses like the port so labor will be the challenge as well as fuel. we have small labor forces we have some small longshoremen forces able to stay there. we are arranging for potential housing, both through potential cruise ships as well as ready ships that can house local labor, including truckers, longshoremen and health care workers. so all of those arrangements are being made so that as we reopen the port that we have labor that has housing to be able to restart. so we're going through all those processes now. >> how quickly do you think you'll be back to normal at this point and how does that compare to what you might have thought on monday? >> you know, we actually feel pretty good. after katrina, we have much more of a water damage. electricity wasn't as much widespread as it is with this storm. luckily entergy seems to be able to get power on much quicker than we initially thought two

amy: entergy, i remember seeing all of the vans after hurricane katrina.illion customers lost power after ida, still hundreds of thousands in darkness with no electricity. the private company and what should be done about it? >> yes, is only about 50% of louisiana that has lost power has had power restored. all of the lower lying areas where sharon is located, the southeast of the state, or almost all still without power and expected to be for weeks. basically, the problem with entergy is it is highly centralized fossil fuel-intensive electricity company -- coal, natural gas particular are its baseline. he would need to have decentralized community-based renewable energy system where you have power provided closer -- that can be separated out. have power here and everywhere else. that is something to mitigate the climate crisis, not contribute to it. amy: outlines for portable energy analysis compared new orleans to thnation a louisiana as a whole and found the city not only has excessively high duration and frequency of power outages, but there also unequ

louisiana utility company e entergy telling customers full restoration will still take time given the the region. >> basic necessities scarce. half of the gas stations in new orleans and baton rouge nearly all fuel. officials in hard-hit placaman's pa parish. >> i've never seen it look like this. it's decimated. >> reporter: the destruction in grand isle, louisiana, widespread. some houses reduced to piles on stilts. one official says nearly half of all homes have been destroyed, estimating it will take up to five years to restore the town. >> a lot of people have lost their homes talking about they don't know whether they'll ever go back or not. >> reporter: and this is all compounded by the covid crisis which remains acute in louisiana and shows no signs of letting up. while only two people have been confirmed dead from the storm, the governor just said over the past four days over 220 people in louisiana have died from covid-19. >> ryan, thank you so much. let's bring in democratic congressman who represents much of the greater new orleans area in the u.s. house of representatives.

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. >> reporter: down in louisiana where ida made landfall, power company entergy says half a million customers still don't have power. manville has had major flooding before including after superstorm sandy in 2012. this is a true mess and a nightmare for families. the question is what can be done to prevent it from happening again in the future. anne-marie? >> that is a big questionon. bradley blackburn in manville, new jersey. thank you so much. >>> texas governor greg abbott is expected to sign a controversial voting rights bill into law today. it passed into law last week. the measure bans drive through voting as i.d. requirements for mail-in ballots and sets new rules for poll watchers. >>> in afghanistan senior taliban officials plan to hold a ceremony to welcome a new government. they seized the last province o american and afghan allies escaping by plane, but as charlie d'agata reports, we have the first land rescue of americans. >> reporter: taliban fighters raised their flag in the panjshir valley. the last enemy has been captured. the war is over. but the mass exodus continues and a

and most of those get the electricity from the state's largest company entergy, and they said that ins back up online was the top priority. and the hospitals were under a strain with covid patients before the hurricane tore through the state and had to evacuate some patients and send them through the back generators and while the chief administrator is joining us now. and so first of all, how is the power situation for the hospitals in the region? >> thank you. the power is getting better. entergy is working to get some of the major feeds and the major power feeds to certainly the central facilities in the so, more facilities on power, and the larger facility in new orleans got power this morning, and we were able to use that. we have a couple of facilities the down and running on generator, but the generators are plugging along and keeping things running at those facilities. do you have limitations on what the patients you can treat right now? >> so, the limitations right now in many of the facilities are just a matter of staffing in the hospital. our emergency departments are open a

a spokesperson for entergy says the company doesn't comment on pending lawsuits more than 23,000 homesnesses in louisiana are still without power. more than throw weeks since that storm hit. >>> the latest data from the labor department confirms what most of us already know. prices in america are on the rise take a look at this. price of eggs up nearly 30% over the past year. ground beef 7% coffee and milk nearly 5%. it's not a problem in just the united states. countries around the globe are dealing with it but in different ways here's cnbc's smeema mody. >> around the world consumers are grappling with the soaring cost of food prices now at their highest level in a decade according to an a index tracked by the u.n. in new delhi, india, family members no longer go to the grocery store. instead they hunt at farmer's markets where prices are more affordable. >> my family would go to the supermarket but now my dad will go to the farmer's market. he'll take time out of the schedule to go up hour away to go to the farmer's market so he can get things cheaper. >> expensive food is eating in

entergy, the provider, echoed that, whenever they issued a report saying they estimate about three weeksut there's no way to tell. we are in new orleans now, west of us is st. charles parish. we were there the other day. leaders of the parish told residents to prepare to live more than a month without power. here we are, approaching 90 degrees already. it is only going to get hotter. if it is not water, it is something else they're lacking. i spoke to a gentleman down to the last four gallons of diesel fuel. asked him what happens when you run out of fuel. he said that's it. his only recourse is to have family members with gas hours away find a way in, hopefully pick them up and take them back out. it is tough to look in every direction here. what's deceiving is you see damage in grand isle and houma, it crushes you. here in new orleans, you see some of the damage, but for the most part homes are still standing, streets are now passable, and yet you have this other disaster playing out right in front of us and people are being exposed to the elements now indefinitely, and while help is c

. >> the president had a call with the ceo of entergy to make sure that they know this is all hands on deck and whatever is needed from the federal government will be provided and that's the same case for the people as well. we have seen lines packed at the pumps in stores as people search for gas and food trying to make it through the next 24 hours. >> and at about 06:00pm. the president boarded air force one to take off to his home state of delaware in the northeastern part of the u.s. that it also experience devastation because of hurricane ida reporting live in new orleans. i'm gary burton. back to you. >> all right, gary, thank you very much for that. have a good evening. >> want to get breaking news in right now. thank you to gary for that. this in southern california 81 and extremely dangerous high speed chase is playing out right now. this is the san fernando driver there and that black sedan. is a radically weaving through rush hour traffic at a high rate of speed and you can see him just flying through these, you know, going through red lights going up on the sidewalk. his so

linemen from 22 states have converged in louisiana to help restore power but even with all that help, entergy, one of the main providers here in louisiana said while some people could see power restored in the next 48 hours, there's still no definitive timetable on when the whole grid will come back online >>> the explosive caldor fire is now directly threatening communities on lake tahoe. but this is just one of the tens of thousands of properties that are in the line of danger this morning. nbc's steve patterson is there >> reporter: frances, there isn't much standing between the eastern edge of this ravenous caldor fire and 33,000 homes that's what firefighters are worried about. that's why so many of them have been deployed to this area to save this community, but they have a lot of challenges facing them including the weather, including the conditions, and including this fire which keeps pushing forward before they're able to get more containment on this a field of ravenous flames swirling at the doorstep of thousands, laying siege to south lake tahoe, forcing a state of emergency. throu

so the critical infrastructure needs need to get powered up, and entergy is working on getting the neighborhoodsup slowly. if you don't have fuel, you don't have electricity, water pressure is low, the sewer system is fragile, having the masses come back is a community not ready for it. but i think as electricity comes on, every day i think this gas situation hopefully will get better, and we will bring people back. all my job is to tell people this is the situation, this is the real-life situation. it is up to them to make the personal decisions as to whether they want to return. if they think life is too difficult -- financially if they can stay out longer -- that's an issue with the hotel bills. we're just trying to get atiofor them to make their own decisions. but i really feel good about it. every day we're going to get better and better. >> cynthia, we're thinking about you. and i'm so sorry about your personal loss. thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you so much. >> and we'll be right back. st better together, aren't they? like tea and crumpets. but you wouldn't bundle just a

. >> o'donnell: tonight a class action lawsuit filed in louisiana accusing entergy of failing to preparefor hurricane ida. weeks after the storm more than 20,000 customers are still without electricity. can you imagine? cbs's jessi mitchell met a family especially hard hit. >> the grandma was in the part of the house that the roof started coming off when it started coming awful. i was scared. >> you're trying to survive in the situation you're in. >> reporter: two weeks after hurricane ida tore through golden meadow, louisiana. >> i'm grateful to god we're alive. >> reporter: we met crystal hodge and her family living in a house still without power. >> since the storm, we've taken on additional family members -- my daughter, her daughter, my daughter's mother-in-law and my niece. and she's been sleeping here and her clothes is all here. >> reporter: three homes between them suffered severe damage. they have been keeping the lights on here with the generator they can only afford to run half the day.ford to run half the >> how often do you refill it? >> daily. oh, yeah, daily. >> reporter:

. >> the president had a call with the ceo of entergy to make sure that they know this is all hands onatever is needed from the federal government will be provided and that's the same case for the people as well. we have seen lines packed at the pumps in stores as people search for gas and food trying to make it through the next 24 hours. >> and at about 06:00pm the president boarded air force one to head to his home state of delaware. the northeastern part of the u.s. that also experience devastation none other and hurricane reporting live in new orleans. i'm gary burton. back to you. so we've seen all the pictures of people waiting in long lines for gasoline and for water, for food. >> is the federal government going to ship in some more truck in some extra supplies for people. >> but they're definitely going to do that. president said he's willing to do anything to assist all these people that are dealing with the power outages dealing with loss of food, dealing with loss of gas. these women to invest all the resources that he can from the federal government to assist the people of

queens, new york for many in the northeast, this labor day, included clean up down in louisiana, entergyorts 500,000 people had power restored >>> as you mentioned, the world mourning the loss of michael k. williams he starred as the stick-up man on "the wire." the fivefive-time emmy nominee s found dead on monday afternoon in his apartment michael k. williams was just 54 years old. >>> the average watch time per user on the app tiktok has officially surpassed the watch time of youtube users. this is true in the u.s. and uk. youtube still holds the top spot for overall time watching. makes sense. it has more users. youtube has 2 billion monthly users and tiktok from mid 2020 was about 700 million. brian, back to you >> some big numbers there. a lot of people watching the amazing work that michael k. williams did "the wire" was an the best show of all time. he is up with his brother in the alley. he said you might miss he said at this range with this caliber, if i miss, i can't miss michael k. williams. >> triconic >> thank you phillip mena, anthk you. we'll take a break we'll be right ba

the mayor says there's significant progress and by the end of today, you might see more power on, entergyweeting out overnight that the first light shined this morning in new orleans, but this is a marathon because there are sweaters conditions, which means there are serious concerns about heat-related illness. tulane university has evacuated students to houston. there are two possibilities moving forward, one restore the critical transmission lines, the other to create a grid island for just the greater new orleans area to try to get everybody back up and running. that's the plan they're pursuing. >> sam, thank you. >>> that blistering late summer heat is one of the major problems in the gulf. ida's remnants making its way to the northeast. dylan is tracking the storm. good morning. >> it could feel like 105 in new orleans today. without air-conditioning, that is brutally uncomfortable. now the rain is making its way through the mid-atlantic. back through west virginia, through ohio, even into new jersey right now. the storm is still a tropical depression. it's moving northeast at 24 mil

we are working feverishly with our partner at entergy.plans plants, so -- we lost our entire water system during the storm. and vip water a week after the storm we are working foreverishly as we can to rebuild our community. >> the herculean task you have ahead of us is inconceivable. where are your people and what do they do without shelter and power until the end of the month? >> you would never find a more resilient people. some are staying with family or friends, some have brought in rvs. we had about 90 people we had to move to a neighboring parish, but we're doing everything we can. we have fine ma assets on the ground. we have corps of engineers, and have people go back under their homes. we are working with the -- their hops are destroyed. there is no chance of -- to get them set up in hotels. >> what about that. the 25% of building their fully destroyed, what -- i can't even understand what that means for the future of the folks who live there. they go to hotels, i guess transitionally, but when can they have a home against? >> w

entergy louisiana says it's restored power to at least ten hospitals in southeastern louisiana.wer restored through the repair of the generators that they were using. roughly a little over 130,000 customers have had their power restored now since the hurricane, wolf, but it's not going fast enough for so many people in this state. >> it's going to be weeks were're told. brian todd, thank you very much. >>> in california, the meg kba fire threatening the resort town of lake tahoe has ballooned to more than 10,000 acres. the caldor fire has forced thousands to evacuate, but the forecast for lighter winds could help firefighters get an upper hand on the three-week-old blaze. the fire is one of the few ever to burn across the vast nevada and see area range. experts warn climate change is maybing fires like this one more common. >>> just ahead, we're learning about another big name, a very big name on the list of republicans whose phone records are of interest to the january 6th selectivity. pnc ba nk believes that if a pair of goggles can help your backhand get better... yeah! ...th

entergy, the primary power provider, has more than 20,000 personnel that they are bringing into the statepedite the return of power. importantly, the president the other day approved a major disaster declaration, which authorizes assistance for individuals and communities, so people who have been affected by ida can go on fema's website or disasterassistance.gov to take advantage of that assistance. we have already approved more than $25 million of assistance for affected louisiana and's in the past day. judy: you mentioned the very basic needs people have. we heard that from our own reporter -- food, water, power, shelter. it is fema and other agencies going to be able to get people the help they need? >> providing that support in such a degraded environment is extremely challenging, and that is why we are seeing the parish presidents, the mayors, encouraging residents if they did evacuate to wait to return. it is really critical that louisiana and's -- louisianans who left town and responded to those evacuation orders, which probably saved lives, he'd those directions from local and sta

we expect that number to climb in the days ahead and we're prepared so sustain that mission while entergy works to get the lights back on. >> our reporters have been bringing the stories of people who say that flow is not reaching them. they are waiting this line for hours for food, for water, for ice and not from fema. waiting for gas as well. i want you to listen to some of the people who are asking where are you. >> nothing. you don't see a fema truck come down here. we thought y'all was fema. sometimes they should be out. what we had to do, get ten feet of water to get help. >> 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. >> the help is not reaching them. those are two of several. what do you say to those women, to those families that aren't seeing your trucks drop anything off? >> it's no question it's an extremely challenging situation with the persistent power outages that affect whether stores can reopen. we are starting to see some grocery stores that are reopening either op gen generat po

. >> reporter: things are looking a lot brighter in new orleans tonight, in fact entergy the power companysays they have about 70% of the power restored to the city which means that they are on course to get just about all the city fired up again come wednesday. and it might even look like a normal night unless you look a little closer here at the median. normally you'd have those street cars passing by. it is absolutely filled with all those first responder trucks, mainly power companies, tree cutting companies, all those people needed in a major american city getting it back online. in fact there are said to be about 26,000 power line workers that have come from some 40 states to help with the project here. but as much as they made success in new orleans, still a long way to go in louisiana. about half a million customers are still said to be without electricity and they could be the more difficult and long term process because many of them are in the more distant and more rural parishes where the population centers aren't as large and where getting at the power lines and damaged equipme

entergy said much if not all of the power in baton rouge should be restored by midway next week. a slow grind in getting power back, laura, but making some progress. >> at least there is progress. what an awful story at the gas station. that's unimaginable. pete, let me come to you. the death toll sadly continues to climb in the northeast and also in the mid atlantic and you're in fort washington where they sustained heavy damage from a tornado. so what are you seeing there tonight? >> reporter: laura this is the upper dublin township building and this is the roof peeled off like a tuna can when an ef-2 tornado came barrelling through on the weapons night. it continued north across the street to the high school where the roof of the pool building was ripped off. there was a row of dumpsters there. one of the dumpsters simply disappeared just to give you an idea how strong the winds were here, one woman did die when a tree fell on her house nearby but so many nearby here are considering themselves so lucky. i just want you to listen to one neighbor who told me the damage here is j

so i'm just continuing to push, push, push our power utility, which is entergy, to get power flowingd governor john bel edwards or president biden, what do you want them to provide as soon as possible? >> so, i've been in direct contact with the governor. and obviously making sure that we continue to have fuel coming into the city to power the generators that are keeping our rec centers and our sewage and water board, which is our water plant and sewer plant running so that we have safe drinking water unlike other locations in southeast louisiana who do not. so the governor's been really responsive. the president's coming on friday. i'm good friends with special adviser to the president cedric richmond who coordinated that trip to bring the president down to southeast louisiana and new orleans. and really i guess my big ask for the president would be is to please, please, please help us when it comes to resiliency and reliability with power. one of the things that we saw that happened with the city of new orleans is that all of the transmission lines that bring power to the city, all

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the state of louisiana figures from entergy, largest provider, 370,000 customers without power. more than half the grid is back online for the state. that's all great news. there are so many neighbors we have spoken with like here in kenner near the new orleans airport say we can only get by a couple more days like this. it is unfair some are getting power back and we don't have it yet. you mention heat and rain. blistering temperatures last week that easily approached 100 degrees, especially with heat index. monday, parts of the state of louisiana saw rainfall that prompted flash flood warnings, and now again, more rain in the forecast in terms of resources people are looking for. gas line situation has improved a bit. you can find gas if willing to wait a bit. it is food that's still having many folks in dire straights. saw a line yesterday, chris, stretched for two miles for chicken. combine food, gas, electricity, others are a scarce commodity as they're trying to cope. >> a horrible situation. take me to central new jersey where the president will be later today. what's he

the main energy company, entergy, they've brought in thousands of people, thousands of teams, many ofht 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 going to try to have that up and running on thursday. then the expected date from the mayor's office slid to friday. they now say it's going to open today. they're supposed to have about 100 beds. we met one woman who was waiting in the heat just to get a block o

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officials with the power company entergy say it will be at least 10 more days were electricity is restored more now from martin savidge in new orleans. >> reporter: obviously a much brighter picture here in new orleans. power-wise, they have about 70% of the power restored. picture not so bright excuse the pun elsewhere in the state of louisiana, still about half a million customers that are without electricity. and they could take the longest to get restored. in some cases some parishes especially the more remote ones are being told that it could take until the end of the month. there is another situation that the city of new orleans is monitoring closely here and that has to do with a number of buildings in which senior citizens were living. they weren't necessarily nurse nursing homes per se, but these were buildings whether it was known that they had a significant elderly population. friday they began checking on their welfare and in a number of buildings they found deplorable temperatures, temperatures inside were astronomical, there was no electricity and those that relied on medical

so entergy crews and so many people are here from out of town helping get that back on.ing we can get some updated information soon as it will be put back on inside those 30 days. you're absolutely right, 30 days is not acceptable. i don't think the energy companies, it's acceptable to them. >> the official death toll i believe right now stands at five people. is it your belief that we just don't know the extent of it yet, or do you believe this somehow was not as deadly of a storm, as deadly of a storm as people fear? >> i hope that's it but i fear more. if you look at grand isle, lafitte, the highway is completely covered with five feet of sand. in places of grand isle, you can't get there. so as people have gone out in boats and high-water vehicles to check homes for survivors. but there will be another check for bodies. hopefully we won't have any more death toll, but i'm fearful it will climb and climb by more than five, just people that may have gotten in the attic or not been able to get out of the floodwaters. we're going to see more people that have perished in

the power company entergy estimates electricity will be restored to most of the 1 million customers byednesday. louisiana residents are trying to pick up the pieces from hurricane ida, but they face another day of sweltering temperatures and long lines for the bare necessities. >> let's get an update on how everybody is handling this. adrian broadus is with us from new orleans. is there a difference that you are feeling today versus yesterday morning when we spoke with you? >> well, the big difference in this neighborhood, the lights are back on. a week later there are still signs that the big mess, for example, this tree that snapped at its roots that hurricane ida left behind. over on the left-hand side it's been dark throughout the week, but here the lights are flashing. at last check, i just checked a few minutes ago, and across the state of louisiana there are under 630 power outages. but keep in mind those outages are businesses and homes. and according to the governor, there are still way more, many more people who are without lights because of hurricane ida. and the governor sa

. >> ellison, has entergy given an update on the estimation? you pointed out four days, and at this point, the assessing should be done. >> right. so they said it could take up to three days to do the damage assessment, and what they could do for new orleans is looking at the options, and the first option is to salvaging the powerlines that weren't overly damaged. remember some that a transmission, an entire transmission that collapsed tone the river, but some in new orleans to tie them into the larger grid to make new orleans an island and their own power grid. so they say that they are making some progress and gotten some lights on in eastern new orleans, but it is a long way from normal or comfortable for most people. >> ellison barber on the ground for u and ellison, thank you, and this is going to do it for us this hour, and we will back tomorrow with more "meet the press daily" and our coverage on msnbc will continue with geoff bennett after this break. safe drivers can save using snapshot? -what's snapshot? -what the commercial was about

and so we've restored our water pressure up to about 65 pounds per square inch and entergy is workingey have restored about 70,000 customers, they still have about 150,000 customers to go and of course the issue this grand isle and lafitte outside the levee protection area. >> and you started out by saying power. that is no small thing. still without power after a week of waiting. temperatures have been hot there. how much of a problem has the lack of power caused and you still don't know when it will be back and running? >> it has been extremely difficult. right now our government and our response capabilities are on life support because we rely totally on generated power. and to have generator, you have to have fuel and fuel is short because two-thirds of our refinery capabilities were knocked out. however, they are come back online. so that is the good news on that. as it -- it is causing problems, especially with the heat. we've had issues with our special needs part of the residents where they are having a lot of trouble with the heat. so we're evacuating them to various shelters