cbs's jessi mitchell met a family especially hard hit. >> the grandma was in the part of the house thatthe 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: having power for hodge and her family is essential. her mother elaine is recovering from a recent heart attack an sits by the light of a bedroom window to sort through her medicine. her niece demi is diabetic, they run

here's cbs' jessi mitchell. >> reporter: they were hungry, they were thirsty, they were in pain. >> it was just very sad. >> reporter: a harrowing account from nurse natalie henderson who road tout the hurricane inside a warehouse crammed with 800 nursing home residents after ida hit, in squalid conditions packed close together on mattresses. >> and the whole place is reeking of urine and feces. it was horrifying. >> reporter: some were forced to relieve themselves in small buckets. >> who would do this to patients, you know what i mean? and if you speak up about it, they get mad. >> reporter: who gets mad? >> the supervisors. they don't want you to say anything. >> reporter: are there many other options for you in new orleans? >> not really. >> reporter: since speaking out, henderson says she lost her job. >> they paint me out to be this bad person, and i'm not. i'm not a bad person. i'm trying to look out for people who can't speak up for themselves. >> reporter: the owner of the nursing home seemed to downplay the tragedy last week. >> we only had five deaths within the six days, wi

jericka. >> duncan: jessie mitchell, thank you. on july 4, the average number of covid cases was under 12,500. two months later, they jumped to more than 160,000. that's an increase of more than 1000%. cbs's lilia luciano has more from burbank, california. good evening. >> reporter: good evening, jericka. look, even with our high vaccination rates here in l.a. county, health officials are urging people not to let their guard down this labor day weekend. the delta variant is driving hospitalizations nationwide to levels we haven't seen since january. daily deaths jumped 131% just over the last month. >> we have a record number of kentuckians in the hospital battling covid, in the i.c.u. battling for their lives. >> reporter: i.c.u. beds are running outs in georgia, kentucky and hawaii. and these surges come as more kids head back to school on tuesday. already since did start of this academic year, covid shutdowns in 35 states. parents are worried about covid in the classroom. >> all the data that we are collecting right now, does no

jessi mitchell is outside of that warehouse. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, dana. the nursing home patients forced to endure hurricane ida in the building behind me have since been transferred to other housing. the state department of health shut down those seven nursing homes that brought them here. we spoke with one nurse who saw firsthand the desperate conditions inside. >> they were hungry. they were thirsty. they was crying for -- out. they was in pain. it was just very sad. >> reporter: nurse natalie henderson rode out the hurricane inside a warehouse here in independence, louisiana, where hundreds of nursing home residents were packed in just before ida hit. these images show patients on mattresses on the floor with no social distancing. health officials were told the residents were not being fed or changed. five of the seven deaths here were storm related. >> the whole place is reeking of urine and feces, on top of them trying to eat. they're begging for water. >> reporter: the owner of the seven nursing homes behind the move tried to downplay the tragedy l