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Rainfall in the hudson river valley and we did not have water coming down in the hudson river and that would enhanced. >> steve: pictures are devastating. tunnels are flood people are it didn't rain. it was not the rain but the pressure of the storm and purk the water in mork. >> that's right. i was on with neal and talking to shaub. 10-15 foot storm surge and we would get this happening. the nature of the storm and energy associated with the storm. each though it was spread out they call it a category. it is a power scale of the storm and bar rometric will give you the power of the storm rath...

>> steve: a levee has broken in northern new jersey across the river from new york city and flooded three towns. the conditions of motacki and little fer yecarstat near the sports arena are devastated and an official four-five feet of the water rushing in the town. crews are on rescuing people. joining us is meteorologist joe bastadi. >> thanks for having me. >> steve: starting with the levee break, this is to be expected after a gigantic storm surge. >> it was caused by storm surge rather than the heavy rains. you will get the levees breaking. but we didn't have major

>> right now last night when they were talking about the flooding, i was verned. i'm pretty much in the middle of the peninsula there in breezy point. and i just was expecting i'd get water like the first floor. i wasn't too concerned about it. but now with devastation they're talking about, to be honest with you, at least i am concerned about is my home. i'm more concerned about making sure that the people that were left behind or stayed behind can get on some buss and make their way to the evacuation center, hillside high school. i'm on my way there right now. if any of my friends can hear m...

Any warning. >> no, they did not. >> gretchen: jean, keeping us posted on thuation of thee towns in new jersey. >> steve: those are around the meadowland and sports complex in suburban, new york. they say it was too dangerous to take down and that crane dangling from the high rise. >> brian: see how it blew over. >> steve: heather this is a fancy building under construction and the penthouse valleyed at 115 million. >> that's right. 75 stories off of the ground and they can't get it down at this point because last night it was so windy, winds topping 95 miles per hour . 70 stories up there. we...

Out of hospitals. they needed to be evacuated. i can't thank him enough. governor walker provided assistance to us as well. if there is someone who wants to volunteer to help, we have a line set up, 1-800-jersey 7 if you want to volunteer to help. we can certainly use your help. call that hot line. we have people there to coordinate that. >> steve: what can you tell us -- you touched on it a moment ago, about how along the hackensack river, it looks like there was a levee break or something like that affecting up to 1,000 people. it impacted a mobile home park, people were standing on the tops...