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The remnants of ida slammed the northeast. at least 15 people are dead. hundreds so far rescued. and rescues right now are still happening after what is becoming a truly record-setting event. jennifer gray is joining us with just how historic this is. jennifer, the flooding struck fast, extremely furious for some, and the danger is still there. >> yeah. very much alive and well across portions of the northeast, especially this storm impacted 22 states from start to finish. traveled 1500 miles. more than 500 flood reports. and we know the brunt of the flooding occurred here across the northeast...

>> the win the -- and it's going to take. the rather quickly filled up the roads, the creeks, the rivers, and it came up quickly, and now it all has to flow back down. that's going to take several days. here is all the rain that fell. we knew we were going to get flooding. there was a high risk flooding in this area yesterday, but what was stunninging was how fast the rain came down in such a short amount of time. i'd ax impacted 22 states and tlafld 1,500 miles. there were more than 500 flood reports. look at all these record, daily records. more than 20 were set across the northeast yesterda...

And powerful all of a sudden it developed. >> wolf, this was unreal. it was not only the amount of water that fell, but it was in such a short time, and that's what created this. it is one thing to have this much rain over a long period of time, but when it all happens in three to four hours, you are going to get catastrophic flooding. and that's exactly what happened. this is our radar from last night. you can see all of the rain pushing through. idae ida's path has been relentless. more than 500 flood reports. we saw a lot in the northeast last night. 20 daily rain fall records fell. look at...

And even the towns around across the northeast. a lot of rain fell in just a short amount of time, and that's what created this. ida's path has stretched 1,500 miles, more than 500 flood reports. look at all of these records across the northeast. more than 20 daily rainfall records. staten island, almost 9 inches of rain. this is in a 24-hour time span, but we know that most of this rain fell in a much shorter time span than 24 hours. newark, new jersey, had the wettest day on record with almost 8 1/2 inches. new york city, central park, top five wettest days ever, and a lot of this fell in ju...