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About with this, it takes time for those river gauges to come down. in some cases it can be days. and you had dozens of these river gauges that are moderate or major flood stage and theyre not likely to get back to normal levels for several days. it could even be monday or tuesday of next week for some of these rivers, creeks and streams to get back to normal levels. and thats a concern because you want these communities to be able to start rebuilding. they want to be able to start getting back ...

Here. the dug out is under water. all the way up to the fence and into the parking lot. this is the home stadium of the yankees double-a affiliate in new jersey. new pictures just coming. in. a remarkable scene in bridgewater of that playing field. >> john: wow! thats mostly grass. the damage will be grass and concrete. its in a bowl. what a remarkable video. >> sandra: we just got those images. we are just starting to see some of the damage and some of the screens like in that can only be broug...

Them. this is all precipitated by last nights record-shattering rainfall. what is so fascinating the records that were broken in central park, for example, 3.15 inches in one hour, it broke a record set one week earlier. that says to me that there are no more cataclysmic unforseeable events. we need to be prepared for these in advance. we learned a lot of lessons from sandy. we built back resiliency, coastal shower lines are in better shape they had been. where we have a vulnerability is in our ...

You saw a lot of cars just abandoned, right? >> so i live about 30 miles north of new york city. my commute in the middle of night takes 40 minutes normally. this one took close to three hours. i think its amazing i got in at all based on what i saw. so, the situation is, we had just as much rain up there around the city, 3 to 5 inches. it came down so quickly. trees down, just everywhere because the ground has been saturated. . roads impassable. that wasnt the worst of it. the worst is the park...

Up if they went to sleep to record flooding. we are seeing a rising death toll as a result. now at 23 fatalities. rescuers try to help people trapped inside or on top of building structures, on roof tops waiting for rescues. >> john: the death toll doubled since this morning. it is expected to flame. -- climb. tornadoes and rushing flood water left a trail of destruction against several states. all coming from the same system that hit the gulf coast with a wallop. one of the strongest hurricanes...

Pressure combined with a frontal boundary across the northeast and the tornadoes, big wedge tornadoes in new jersey quite incredible doing lots of damage. national weather service will be in new jersey outside of philadelphia as well as maryland where we had reports of ongoing tornado damage. the past 24 hours you see that wall of water lifting north and eastward. still a little risk across northern new england. for the most part were done. however, rivers in some cases have not crested yet and ...

And it is good to be with you on this thursday. im geoff bennett and we start with a 1 in 500 weather event from maryland to massachusetts. far more catastrophic than expected catching much of the northeast off guard. the officials say that at least 25 people have died and a massive search and rescue mission is under way. after that record shattering rainfall in new york, new jersey and pennsylvania. those three states absolutely walloped by the remnants of hurricane ida. now right now, rescues ...

In center city, pennsylvania, thats a river overflowing its banks there. and a lot of homes inundated as a result. cnns allison chinchar with us now. allison, you can give us a big birds eye view, right, of exactly how extensive this flooding was. its remarkable because this was the concern, right, that ida, the winds were slowing down, the rain was not. how far and wide did we see effects like this? >> thats the thing i think people need to realize. the national weather service, both the local ...

Property damage for the most part. >> okay, thats good to hear. i do want to ask because this has become such a familiar story, right. the wettest day on record in newark, the first flash flood warning ever issued in new york city. you saw those pictures of the subway. >> right. >> what does a city like newark do to prepare for what seemed to be regular historic climate and weather events? >> yeah, weve had at least 10 inches of rain in newark, you know. so what weve really done is blocked off s...

Visit indeed.com/hire >> sandra: the remnants of hurricane ida the storm blamed for nine deaths now in the northeast knocking out the entire new york subway system and triggered the citys first ever flash flood emergency with torrential rains shutting down roads across the tristate area. monster tornadoes touching down in new jersey and maryland leaving a quarter of a million people reportedly without power still at this hour. the remnants of ida heading through new england. well keep a close ey...