middle of the storm around the passaic/clifton area and we drove around like an hour to get anywhere towards my house in bloomfield. and i got pictures of my house from my family, it is completely flooded. the entire basement, the cars are filled up with water to the top. everything is completely destroyed in the first floor of my house. it is really crazy. >> polo sandoval is in newark for us. people who live in this area know that this was already a very wet summer. so you get all this rain, record-setting amounts of rain, and there is no place for it to go. the street behind me was a river, cars floating around. what are you seeing there in newark? >> reporter: this part of newark we've made to dry ground here. but just a couple miles from where we are, there is still water on the roadway. in terms of the water that has receded, it has led to dozens of