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Understatement. this is, you know, first time ever we have had a flash-flood emergency declared. >> reporter: across the northeast, the death toll continues to rise. among the victims, a 2-year-old. >> this has been a biblical storm by -- by every means. >> reporter: in queens, the new york police department commissioner says at least eight people died in the basements of homes inundated with water. >> the roads everywhere i saw coming out of the airport and beyond flooded. dozens and dozens and...

Newark was 7.88. new york was 6.63. this was a one-in-500-year rainfall event. going into every year, the odds of this occurring, the odds of this occurring was 0.2. its crazy. i was out around my town until 1:00 a.m. last night. fire was rescuing people. so widespread, the devastation and destruction out there. weve only begun to see a little of it. >> i was going to ask you, bill. what was it like? what was it like to experience this? so often you talk about this stuff, but you found yourself ...

In any of those. its incredible. and the a tigss are telling us this was a one in 500 year rainfall event. that means going into every single year, .2% chance of this happening. it shouldnt happen again but, of course, with climate change we wonder if these numbers are changing. we know as the planet warms the atmosphere can hold more moisture, which means it can rain more too. the storm is moving out. boston is done. cape cod getting a little bit of rain. we are almost completely finished with ...

Yesterday morning, but we did not know that between 8:50 an 9:50 p.m. last night that the heavens would literally open up and bring niagara falls level water to the streets of new york. could that have been anticipated? i want to find out. >> reporter: in central park, 5.2 inches of rain fell in just three hours. a 1 in 500 year rainfall event, something officials say is only getting worse because of climate change. >> we are in a whole new world now, and this is a reality we have to face. >> re...

One spot on staten island got a foot of rain. it was very, very close to what we predicted. this is what actually happened. you know, maybe it was going to be a little bit to the north, and it was a little bit south. everything is magnified when 10 million people in new york city go under a flash flood emergency. thats the largest flash flood emergency in the history of flash flood emergencies. new york city had never issued a flash flood emergency before and yesterday they issued three of them....

Join us. were calling this a one in 500-year rainfall event. in six hours, you had nearly 8 inches of rain falling in newark, new jersey, in new york city more than 6 1/2 inches. in new york, according to our meteorology team they saw something like half inch of rain in a couple of minutes. steph, i want to start with you in new york. weve been watching you this morning. its almost sort of unbelievable what youre looking at, given we expected devastation when hurricane ida was moving up through ...

Concerning here in new orleans because it has been pitch black. the streets are dark. no power. i can step to the side here and our photo journalist will zoom in to bourbon street here in new orleans in complete darkness. the only reason you see light on those buildings is because jake our photo journalist has been able to throw a light from an independent power source on to those buildings and illuminate part of bourbon street. it is total darkness. the good news here is at least in the french ...

It will be a weaker system by then. it turns into a regular storm by the time it gets to the mid-atlantic, but we have to deal with a big rainfall event. were through wednesday in the northeast. the same areas that got hit a week ago from today by hurricane henri, so the rainfall totals, heaviest in mississippi, along the border of alabama, tennessee, watch out around nashville and you had a ton of flooding over the last couple months, and all of this mess goes to the northeast. this area of red...

So far it seems like they are being told you cant do these types of things. i really wonder what 9/11 2021 is going to look like. are americans going to feel that theyre more safe from terror than they were one year ago or even 20 years ago? steve: great question. ainsley: yeah. thank you for your service, too. colonel, in the army reserve. >> thank you. steve: thank you, congressman. >> thank you. steve: 14 minutes before the top of the hour. lets check in with senior meteorologist janice dean....

Jon: big weather events today lets go to our meteorologist tracking henri and a deadly flooding in tennessee from our weather center. >> the storms yesterday the single biggest rainfall event in the state. over 17 inches in the town of waverly and at one point we saw 9 inches of rain in three hours. 40 miles to the west of nashville right now there are 22 fatalities confirmed and dozens still missing along the duck river which rose so quickly with that amount of rain our thoughts and prayers are...