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This silent body cam footage shows the desperate attempt by police to save a two-year-old boy and his parents as rainwater flooded their new york city basement apartment. with no special equipment, an officer at one point ducks into the murky water to feel for the apartment door as a brown teddy bear floats into view... but the officer comes up empty. the door is locked. back up from fire rescuers eventually arrived, but not in time, the family of three drowned. they were among at least 51 people who died in the remnants of hurricane ida, including this father of seven in new york city. five d...

Night to now. at this point do you think everyone has been accounted for, any rescues still going on this morning? >> i'm praying that we have closed the book on this, but, john, it is too early to tell. n.y.p.d., fire, ems, everyone's out there still following up. but, look, what we do know, thank god, our roadways are clear again. people, homeowners, store owners yesterday are digging out, getting back to business. new yorkers are incredibly resilient. so, we went through a lot of pain in the last 48 hours, but people are immediately coming back. our sanitation workers are cleaning stuff up....

From a township perspective and homes and the damage to them and the digging out, cleaning up and rebuilding and look, that's where americans, people from new jersey, come together and we saw it last night and seeing it now. everybody supports one another. the help will be there. we'll clean up, we'll dig out and rebuild. i want to make one final comment. the governor -- i cannot thank enough the fact that the level of support from all levels of government. i got my congressman from a different district. i have my district legislative district representatives here and senate president sweeney ...

Homes and the damage to them, and the digging out, cleaning up, and rebuilding. and, look, that is where americans, new jerseyans quintessentially come together. we saw it last night and we're seeing it now. everybody supports one another. the help will be there. we'll clean up. we'll dig out, rebuild. one final comment that the governor -- again, i cannot thank enough the fact that the level of support from all levels of government. i got my congressman from a different district, by the way. congressman norcross is here. obviously my district, legislative district representative is here. my g...

Flooding with torrential rains. they obviously had no idea it was going to be like it was last night. and they got very nervous. they tried to check in with each other. one woman told me she was on facetime with her neighbor 12 hours as they watched this rainwater come up and down and sneak through their house, wreck a lot of their stuff and really put people in danger. lost the lives of two of their neighbors in the collapse behind me. so, the whole region where i am right now, this whole neighborhood is focused on that, is focused on clean-up, but also focused on rescue, finding people, maki...