Is a time for heightened alertness and extreme caution. If you are home, stay home. If you are at work or school, shelter in place for now. Some of our subways are flooded and its extremely difficult to move around the city. John a warning from eric adams as heavy rain continues to pound the city and surrounding region creating dangerous, even lifethreatening flooding. John roberts in washington, Stock Brokers were seen walking two by two to a big wooden boat. Sandra it is a mess out there, john. This is america reports. New york Governor Hochul has declared a State Of Emergency over the ongoing storm. It is still coming down outside as we speak. This after a months worth of rainfall over part of the big apple in just a threehour time span, more intense rainfall expected for the rest of the day. John precipitation of biblical proportions. National Weather Service warning all new yorkers to stay home, subways are badly flooded and drivers stranded on the roads in brooklyn. Sandra it is unbelievable out there. Katie burn is braving it for us along the hudson river in hoboken, new jersey. How bad are conditions there . The water is not going anywhere. A number of streets look like this, submerged in it. Im on a sidewalk, but if i step into the street you can see the water gets even deeper, about shin deep. Its just one of those days you cant really get around hoboken by car. We are by the Train Station talking to commuters. Some say they started driving either to work or school to drop off their kids, and then ended up in bumper to Bumper Traffic that was not moving with all the Road Closures around hoboken here. A lot of people are ditching the car and deciding to bike or walk to work instead. I met ronnie. He was running late to work, but now hes just hoping he can go home later. Chaos, cant get into hoboken at all, you had to park in newport to get into hoboken to get into work, its a snaffu. New york city, the worst of the flood there is targeting brooklyn and queens. Subways there are taking on rushing water. Laguardia airport terminal a is shut down because of flooding, so is the fuel farm. Greenwood heights in brooklyn the lead for the most rain, picking up almost seven inches as we still have Flash Flood Warnings for the next hour, those could get extended. Rain is not expected to stop until later on, even after the Evening Commute, its a double whammy. Morning commute is messy, Evening Commute is messy, you cannot win today. Sandra be safe out there, still rising and the rain is still coming. John we have to get you some pictures from laguardia airport, all kinds of water in the baggage area. Joining us by phone is oneka williams, she lives in brooklyn, katie said particularly hard hit. Works at a daycare in coney island down there on the beach by the atlantic ocean. What was it like for you . My understanding is you got stuck on a bus. Yes, hi. The bus was like crowded with people and then the water was just coming out of nowhere. I did not expect to see that at all. It just happened to just drive into a beach full of water, i would call it a beach, unexpected, though, you know. Sandra we have your video up right now. I mean, was the bus able to continue on . Yes. It had to divert to a different location so i had to, you know, find my way back up the road to catch another bus in order to get to my location to work. It was a mess. John it obviously looks like a mess. The last time i can remember flooding, oneka like this in the New York City Area, when Hurricane Sandy hit a number of years ago. Were you in new york for that, too . No, i was not. But a sister from the Church Sister joanne, she told me about Hurricane Sandy this morning as well, was similar to this. So, im in shock, you know. This is going to be memories forever. Sandra we are showing video of brooklyn. This is also going viral. Lower manhattan has just gotten walloped, brooklyn heavily underwater, cars abandoned throughout the streets. Have you been able to talk to your loved ones, friends, how is everybody doing . This is this is all over the boroughs right now. Yes. My daughter had to go to school and the school was flooded in the basement, so they had to excuse the children earlier, so she went home and she reached home safely. My son, he stayed home this morning luckily, and everyone else is safe. We just have to, you know, get back. I left work early today so i can go back home because its still raining and still going to be flooding and you know, we just take it easy. So are you on your way back home now, or have you actually made it back home and if you are on your way, how are you going to get back . I assume the busses are not running anymore. The busses are running. John oh, they are. Yes, the busses are running. Sandra some of the busses, you know, i have seen just out the windows here, it depends can on where you are. Subways, against on where you are. Although if you brave the subways open you are likely to get wet. I think tammy bruce posted a video earlier going to the subway, water pouring in. Grand central is a mess. Grand central is, you know, its leaking on the dryest days. You can imagine what its like right now, buckets everywhere. Have you ever been through Something Like this before . Never, never. This is my first. I always watch it on tv, and never thought i would be in it too. Its like i was swimming in it, you know. It was scary. But you know, opportunity of a lifetime, you know. Im happy i get that opportunity to experience Something Like this because i always watch it in the movies, i watch it on the news, you know, never thought that, you know, i would be next. John yeah, i remember when i lived in miami my neighborhood flooded regularly and there would be a couple of kids who would come by with an atv pulling a knee board behind them so they were making the best of it. We have not seen that yet in new york city. You have to make the best of it, yes. John we have not seen that in new york city. Although people were crosscountry skiing down broadway in snowstorms in the middle of the wintertime. Quite an ordeal youve been you through. One for the ages. Now again, are you still trying to make your way home or did you get back home . Yes, im trying to make my way back home, yes. Its still raining, yes. John do you have to walk through knee deep water or find dry streets . I dont know what happened, but it seems like the flooding has disappeared now, i dont know if i see a lot of trucks, so maybe they emptied drained or something is happening, but the roads are nice now. Sandra the best to you, be safe, we hope you get home safe to a Hot Chocolate or something, its cold when you get wet and all that kind of stuff. These subway pictures, john, look at this. John god bless you, oneka, safe travels. Thank you so much, you guys. Sandra so sweet. Shes been through a lot and still sounds happy. John it is amazing when you take a look at the rain and the city for the most part is pretty flat and all of that Rain Accumulates and as she was saying, if you get some plugged sewers, the water backs up really, really quickly. Ive covered hurricanes with less flooding from what we have seen here from a rainstorm. Its going to take a while for this to clear. Sandra, my understanding, maybe you have a more recent update, a lot of the metro north trains, maybe Long Island Railroad out of Grand Central have been delayed or canceled. Sandra they have been halted, not going in and that causes chaos for many. Although in this post covid era, so many have the ability to work from home, hopefully, alerts went out early enough to tell people to stay home so they did not risk coming in by car or by train. But when you halt the metro north trains from connecticut and north of the city, that affects a lot of people, john. Its like driving through this is, its like a video game. You are Dodging Stuff that has come off of cars and vehicles in the street, abandoned vehicles, Emergency Personnel all over, but just again, it depends on where you are. We are in midtown manhattan, here, if you look out the windows its raining. Lower manhattan got hit harder than midtown manhattan. North of new york city up in the west chester area, seeing live pictures of new rochelle, 20 miles north of the city, its a lake. Its bad. John and this Weather System is moving up into the northeast a little further north of new york, up in the catskills, into new england, into the Green Mountains, we could get a lot of Flash Flooding in the valleys. A lot of communities in the northeast in new england that could be at risk of more severe flooding. Again, this is kind of sewers get plugged, the water backs up, its pretty flat there. You combine that amount of water with hillsides, ravines and that sort of thing, it could turn into a deadly Flash Flooding situation very quickly. Sandra extremely dangerous to even get into the waters. As somebody who was walking through terminal a took video, you and i have both seen it, it is completely laguardia, terminal a, flooded like all the baggage, everything. I dont know if you could gauge how high it was and the surrounding roads in and out of laguardia just a mess. John when you consider a lot of the city is only a couple or three feet above the level of the water or long island sound, what other body of water might be nearby, it doesnt take much in order for the water and the land to meet. Earlier one of our Fox Weather Correspondents was saying she was along the east river at high tide and combination of the rain and the high tide up the east river was pushing the floodwaters right up and over the break wall. So, thats probably what happened at laguardia as well. Flushing bay is right there and the water is just a couple feet below the level of the runway. So you get a little extra water combined with the high tide, it will flood things out very quickly. Sandra and this is obviously middle of the day on friday, and anybody who did get in look at these images, just unbelievable. Anybody who can get into their office or wherever they were travelling today, once you got here, its gonna be a challenge for many of these folks to get home with Train Service stopped, subways, a lot of them are inoperable, i saw a lot of vehicles trying to avoid the flooding, you can see the car on the lefthand side of the screen, the person is either in there or abandoned it earlier. This can be extremely dangerous. What we saw was a lot of cars were just driving completely off road up over mud and grass to avoid the flooding and then that all chaos ensues, john. John looking at the radar and looks like the rain will stop in new york city in the next little while. Just one little tail end thats going through. But again, the massive rain that flooded out new york city is right now in Upstate New York, south and east of albany, poughkeepsie is getting killed right now and then into the hills of Western Massachusetts and going up through connecticut, headed for vermont as well. So, this is not over by a long shot, it may be subsiding in new york city but its going to be around with us. Sandra just to give you an idea, the forecast says this rain is going to continue for the foreseeable future. There are hours more of this coming. By 9 45 this morning, according to new york officials, most areas around new york city had eclipsed the four inch mark. That was hours ago, john. Some totals by at that point were six inches, central park near four inches by that time. Jfk and laguardia airport, it could be double that. 23 Million People are under flood watches across parts of new jersey, new york and connecticut. Flood warnings in effect for long island, manhattan, queens, and new jersey. We were warned about Flash Flooding and it is happening. John its friday, a lot of people are going to be getting out of town, trying to leave the city early. Oneka got out of work early and trying to make her way home. Combine it with the fact subways are not running, trains are not running to take people north and east of the city, or over into new jersey. There are a lot of frustrated people who were hoping to get home just from work who may not be able to do it for a little while and then the situation as you pointed out at the airport, so many people either coming back from Business Trips or heading home for the weekend after being up in new york. Well keep following this for you. Sandra we will. John a live look at the white house where its not raining, thankfully, any moment press secretary Karine Jeanpierre will face questions the first time after yesterdays Impeachment Hearing into President Biden, and comes as the House OversightCommittee Chairman james comer subpoenas bank records from hunter and james biden as part of his inquiry into President Biden. Bring in byron york. Subpoenas for bank records from hunter biden and james biden, what do you think they could uncover, what could they reveal . Well, i think what the republicans have discovered so far without any doubt is the travelling of millions of dollars from foreign sources to james and hunter biden among other bidens. So the question is where does it go then . As you know, the question that democrats have asked over and over and over again, show us some connection to joe biden, show us some connection. I think the idea is the more you learn about where the money actually went after it arrived from china or ukraine or somewhere like that, the more they will know. John so there is the where and we have a pretty good idea and some of the cases what the where is, where its coming from, where its going to. The big question, this could be really the key, is the why. Yeah, and theres a couple things. One, if they could just show some money going to joe biden or entities around joe biden, thats one thing. Now, is there going to be a tape where joe biden says yeah, send me 5 million and i will change u. S. Policy. John i highly doubt that. I dont think its going to happen. Its not the way the Influence Peddling world works. You could make an argument this is the kind of thing republicans should have been pursuing before starting an Impeachment Inquiry. They would say they needed additional authorities from an Impeachment Inquiry to get this stuff. But there is no doubt while they improved beyond any doubt the president did not tell the truth about not knowing about his sons Business Dealings and that millions and millions of dollars went through Shell Companies from Foreign Countries to the bidens, they have not established that link that democrats demanded over and over and over yesterday. John so this is why comer is now saying maybe he might subpoena president joe bidens bank records. What he said, its looking like we are going to be asking for his bank records. I mean, all roads lead to joe biden. From day one this has been an investigation into joe biden, not his son. His son is a key central figure because we believe hunter was the front man for the biden family influence scheme. Donald trump eventually had to give a lot of records to a court of law that he didnt want to, but can this president forestall a congressional subpoena . Probably for quite a while, i would think. These things take a good long while. But, what comer is saying there is absolutely true. They traced the money only so far. They are very suspicious about President Biden, then he was Vice President , or former Vice President biden, very suspicious about him getting some of the money or use of some of the money but have not been able to actually prove anything so are fa. What you saw yesterday was democrats with a very united front, throwing their bodies in front of this. They would do anything to stop it, anything to disrupt it, and it was actually politically very effective. And i think probably what it should have shown republicans is go back behind closed doors, keep working, keep gathering information. Remember, you republicans are in a much better position than you were before the whole whistleblower stuff and you could make more progress. John cuba gooding, jr. Said show me the money. Sandra Karine Jeanpierre is holding a Press Briefing, they are talking shutdown. Lets listen. These programs that families need should be continuing. We should not be in this position that we are in. This is something that republicans in congress and the house more specifically are heading us towards and you saw there was a chart that was up when we were speaking and you know, Senate Republicans senate democrat, how democrats, the president , we are all on the same page, all on the same page here, and for some reason extreme House Republicans refuse, they refuse to get on board here. And as it relates to the shut down, should not be happening. This can be avoided. They can fix this if they choose. If they choose. Thank you, karine. I hear what youre saying and about what . About republicans and that they ha