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Before, but, again, nothing like this. kate. >> jason, thank you so much. i want to go to mulligan hills, new jersey, where a tornado touched down, destroying at least 25 homes mchl people there are still without power there tonight as well. paula newton is on the ground. shes joining me now. paula, how bad is the damage there? >> reporter: kate, as sobering as it is, and i want to show you the damage here, look at this. homes destroyed completely by a tornado. at least eight tornadoes touching ...

>> that water really is unbelievable. new yorks subways now back up and running after being knocked offline. water was seen just gushing onto the tracks overnight. basement apartments also flooding so fast that some new yorkers including a 2-year-old boy sadly did not make it out in time. in addition to the flooding, people in pennsylvania and new jersey are also cleaning up after tornados. miraculously, truly, no one was killed after a twister tore through this neighborhood. look at that. tonig...

And cleanup. most people have unloaded either their basement apartments or their garages, their belongings from clothing and shoes to refrigerators and washer/dryers are lining the sidewalks here in queens. a lot of them are emotional because these are their lifetime belongings, and they have to get rid of them. and a lot of them have lost their cars. many of these families only have one car, and for some of them, its their means of, you know, making a living in some cases. >> youre describing i...

This is a really serious problem here in philadelphia and regionwide. the schuylkill river overflowed its banks earlier this morning. crested about 17 feet, a number not seen since 1869. now its down to about 11 feet, according to the national weather service, and will not be below flood stage until sometime after midnight. thats why the flood emergency here remains in place in philadelphia until 7:00 tomorrow morning, and were only just now getting a glimpse of how bad the damage will be here. ...

Say, this is new jersey, not oklahoma, and they dont know what the insurance will cover. and, quite frankly, kate, theyre not sure they want to relive the terrifying moments they had in this neighborhood last night. kate? >> it looks like a beautiful neighborhood torn to bits. paula, thank you so much for joining us. congresswoman, thank you for being here. i know youve been traveling throughout the community today, seeing the destruction, the damage and destruction, and talking to the residen...

Burnett. tonight, the death toll has risen significantly. at least 45 people killed across the east coast as remnants of ida leave breathtaking destruction. >> this is the first time weve had a flash flood of this proportion. >> sadly tragic, historic 24 hours in new jersey. theres noover way to put it. >> tonight in the northeast, more than 100,000 people are in the dark, and the threat is not over yet. new jersey appearing to be the hardest hit state with 23 people dead. officials say many mor...

Obviously we send our condolences to those families. there appear to be three individuals that did drown and one individual that was involved instructial damage related to that tornado. so its just heartbreaking, and we certainly hope that that is the final count. but we will see. >> commissioner, thank you very much. >> thank you. lets turn to the aftermath of hurricane ida in louisiana where the storm first hit. tonight were learning four nursing home residents died after more than a hundred...

Very heavy rains. on average we had about 8 1/2 inches of rain in our county in a relatively short period of time. the national weather service has confirmed that we had an ef-2 tornado that touched down in upper dublin and other townships in our county. that tornado caused a significant amount of destruction. there were winds of up to 130 miles an hour. so you can imagine the havoc that that brought. and then the flooding started. as you heard, the schuylkill river is still in our county at maj...