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Patients to a warehouse facility where seven residents later died. nurses who helped with the evacuation told cnn the warehouse was overcrowded, hot and leaked during the storm. here is how a state health department official described the situation on tuesday. >> let's be clear. there is no emergency preparedness plan a that allows for residents to be kept in such an unsanitary and unhealthy condition. the lack of adequate care for these residents is inhumane and goes against the rules, regulations and applicable statutes. >> democratic lawmakers on capitol hill are struggling to reach a conse...

♪ louisiana health officials revoking the licenses of seven nursing homes all of them owned by one person after seven residents died following hurricane ida evacuations to a warehouse facility with deteriorating conditions. 911 calls depict a very chaotic scene. martin savidge is live for us in new orleans with more. this was such a huge tragedy for these folks, martin, and now we're getting more insight into it. >> reporter: yeah, we are. good morning to you, brianna. this is one of the nursing homes from which people were evacuated. and reportedly staff members were told that they were h...

>> i think over 50 calls to 911, the relatives of those people were cries for help and to pack that many people into one warehouse is just unthinkable. and how could this happen after we've gone through katrina and had those doges in the nursing homes then and set things in place so this would never happen again. it is just unthinkable. it is embarrassing. >> reporter: seven people died. more than 800 people were transported to that warehouse facility. and a spokesperson with the louisiana department of health said there were reports of people left on the floor on mattresses. they didn't have ...

Seniors likely lived in individual units alone, and this is also not to be confused with that warehouse facility about 75 miles north of new orleans. there, a department spokesperson with the louisiana department of health, said there were reports at that warehouse facility, people were left on mattresses on the floor. they didn't have food, water, and the building smelled like feces. the lieutenant governor said something must change. listen in. >> we're learning about the incredible number, i think over 50 calls to 911. the relatives of those people, cries for help. and to pack that many peo...

We're talking to fema to see if the trailers are available. but we have a whole lot of assets, our state and federal delegation have been great partners along with the governor's office here. the president was right here to meet with me and neighboring parish presidents, and he committed every resource he can from fema. >> obviously -- i hear you hoe resilient your folks are, but it's so taxing a everybody, on everybody physically and emotionally. i also want to ask about what happened at that warehouse facility, where there were nursing homes in various parishes, including yours, that had to ...