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around the world, im bianca nobilo. >> im max foster joining you live from london. just ahead on "cnn newsroom." >> its house after house that has been flooded. >> its great living on the river. not so great living in the river. we were expecting a flood, but not like this. >> were cooperating fullfully. >> im wondering why the vice president of the united states had classified documents outside the hands of the intelligence community. >> this is an investigation of joe biden and thats...

The remnants of ida slammed the northeast. at least 15 people are dead. hundreds so far rescued. and rescues right now are still happening after what is becoming a truly record-setting event. jennifer gray is joining us with just how historic this is. jennifer, the flooding struck fast, extremely furious for some, and the danger is still there. >> yeah. very much alive and well across portions of the northeast, especially this storm impacted 22 states from start to finish. traveled 1500 miles. m...

>> the win the -- and its going to take. the rather quickly filled up the roads, the creeks, the rivers, and it came up quickly, and now it all has to flow back down. thats going to take several days. here is all the rain that fell. we knew we were going to get flooding. there was a high risk flooding in this area yesterday, but what was stunninging was how fast the rain came down in such a short amount of time. id ax impacted 22 states and tlafld 1,500 miles. there were more than 500 flood repo...

And powerful all of a sudden it developed. >> wolf, this was unreal. it was not only the amount of water that fell, but it was in such a short time, and thats what created this. it is one thing to have this much rain over a long period of time, but when it all happens in three to four hours, you are going to get catastrophic flooding. and thats exactly what happened. this is our radar from last night. you can see all of the rain pushing through. idae idas path has been relentless. more than 500 ...

And even the towns around across the northeast. a lot of rain fell in just a short amount of time, and thats what created this. idas path has stretched 1,500 miles, more than 500 flood reports. look at all of these records across the northeast. more than 20 daily rainfall records. staten island, almost 9 inches of rain. this is in a 24-hour time span, but we know that most of this rain fell in a much shorter time span than 24 hours. newark, new jersey, had the wettest day on record with almost 8...

Now lets bring in cnn meteorologist, ivan cabrera. are we expecting this to continue? >> picked up 20 inches in 07, and 18 inches so far in some areas, and the problem is we are not done, we are still talking about more rainfall that is going to be ongoing. what i am showing you here are the flood reports continuing from brownsville and austin, and then oklahoma and parts of kansas as well. i want to zoom in closer and show you what has been happening in parts of austin, and some counties here. ...