jersey. the flooding prompted new york city to essentially shut down its subway system. the city's ban on non-emergency travel is scheduled to end at the top of this hour. and here is a look at the flooding in short hills, new jersey. the state has seen rising water and even tornadoes in the past 12 hours. cnn's brian stelter says that the area isn't used to getting this kind of severe weather. >> reporter: in towns, city, counties that are not built for this, not equipped for this amount of rainfall this fast a appeared of period of time. of course we're talking the remnants of ida that has been soaking the united states. and the same kind of infrastructure problems we saw in louisiana we are now seeing in new jersey and new york. earlier today tornadoes south of where i'm located closer to philadelphia, but in new jersey, we saw tornadoes also in