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Inside according to witnesses deteriorated greatly. we know seven people have died as a result. they were sleeping on the floor. there was no covid precautions. no changing of patients that needed to be changed and they were saying bathrooms were basically a five gallon bucket. the state tried to intervene on tuesday. they were turned away saying this is private property. the residents have been relocated. >> new orleans outside the building where im standing, two senior sitcitizens were found d...

Heat, well over 100 degrees. they had no electricity. oxygen machines had failed. they were trapped on their floors because the elevators didnt work and they couldnt call anybody because cell phones had died. it was a living hell and five seniors died. thats the circumstances for apartment buildings here in new orleans. they didnt have a legal obligation to evacuation, government leaders said they had a moral obligation to look out for citizens. >> martin, cnn obtained more details about the pan...

Nice to see you. thank you for joining me today. president biden is issuing a major disaster decoloration, that does include queens so what do you want president biden to see when he visits tomorrow? >> thank you, laura for having me. i think this is a very critical moment for this administration to look at how the infrastructure and the bureaucracy is really not working for the public. new york city and the federal government have been going back and forth for a number of years now on these flo...

>> reporter: once they got into the first building, they found deplor deplorable conditions. temperatures soared inside the building. many of the seniors were trapped because the elevators did not work and they could not use the stairs to get down to the ground floor. all weekend long they continue to look at building, after building that was housing el elde eldeel elderly. and sadly they also found five people who died and they say in some cases these buildings did have a staff but the staff ev...

Clearly the buildings were without electricity. people were without air conditioning. the temperatures had soared and many of the seniors were trapped because the elevators didnt work and they couldnt use the stairs to get down to the ground floor. all weekend long they continued to look at building after building after building that was for housing the elderly. all told theyve found ten, evacuated hundreds of senior citizens to the shelters to the north of louisiana. and sadly they also found f...

Department decided to investigate a number of buildings where they knew they had a high population of elderly people. when they got in the buildings, they saw horrible conditions and temperatures soared and most of the units had no electricity and air conditioning. the elevators didnt work. they were trapped within their building. over the weekend, they found more and more buildings with similar deplorable conditions and in some cases, it looked like the staff had evacuated but they left the eld...

>> look, thank you, laura, for having me. i just think that this is a very critical moment for this administration to look at how the infrastructure and the bureaucracy is really not working for the public. new york city and the federal government have been going back and forth for a number of years now on these flood resiliency maps. where they argue over which areas should be covered by the flood maps here. and its created this big problem because what we saw in the devastation, especially in ...

Crash. that left fire department radio. >> you had seasonally you have hundreds and hundreds of firefighters that are radios. it is becoming more and more difficult. >> you have one guy whos trying to reach anyone in the elevators. and going through the list. anyone in this car. there is about 98 elevators in the world trade center. all of a sudden, the elevator opens up and you see people, not having a clue whats going on. because they have been stuck in

>> my main concern was we had 20 floors of people above. and we had to figure out a way to get them out. as it turned out, we had no usable elevators. >> with the elevators out, there was only one way to get up there. walk. >> companies come in. you see them. theres a concerned look on their face. and theyre sent up. >> a firefighter in full gear carrying 60-something pounds of hose and equipment takes about a

>> the second plane. >> now the chiefs would have to set up a whole other operation over in tower two. >> when the second plane h hits - thats when we could see fear. >> both of them are on fire. >> we could see it in everybodys eyes. >> we heard boom! >> all the elevators are blocked out. >> it was crowded. people were coming down burnt.