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Before, but, again, nothing like this. kate. jason, thank you so much. i want to go to mulligan hills, new jersey, where a tornado touched down, destroying at least 25 homes mchl people there are still without power there tonight as well. paula newton is on the ground. she s joining me now. paula, how bad is the damage there? reporter: kate, as sobering as it is, and i want to show you the damage here, look at this. homes destroyed completely by a tornado. at least eight tornadoes touching down in the northeast. what s so miraculous is people know they re lucky despite the destruction. there have been no severe injuries, no death, but the voracity of the storms, you hardly had any time at all. they could see the funnel clouds through their windows as they got notice on their mobile phones to take shelter in their basements, and within a few minutes, it was all done. i want you to hear from mike ....
that water really is unbelievable. new york s subways now back up and running after being knocked offline. water was seen just gushing onto the tracks overnight. basement apartments also flooding so fast that some new yorkers including a 2-year-old boy sadly did not make it out in time. in addition to the flooding, people in pennsylvania and new jersey are also cleaning up after tornados. miraculously, truly, no one was killed after a twister tore through this neighborhood. look at that. tonight, president biden who will be heading to louisiana tomorrow, is promising help is on the way for everyone affected by the storm. there s a lot of damage, and i made clear to the governors that my team at the federal emergency management association, fema, is on the ground and ready to provide all the assistance that s needed. ....
And cleanup. most people have unloaded either their basement apartments or their garages, their belongings from clothing and shoes to refrigerators and washer/dryers are lining the sidewalks here in queens. a lot of them are emotional because these are their lifetime belongings, and they have to get rid of them. and a lot of them have lost their cars. many of these families only have one car, and for some of them, it s their means of, you know, making a living in some cases. you re describing it so well, but how extensive do you think the damage is going to be for so many people in your district? i think, you know, these are everyday hard-working families. i don t know how much savings they have. remember, people here in queens and throughout the country have just gone through covid. a lot of people have lost jobs ....
This is a really serious problem here in philadelphia and regionwide. the schuylkill river overflowed its banks earlier this morning. crested about 17 feet, a number not seen since 1869. now it s down to about 11 feet, according to the national weather service, and will not be below flood stage until sometime after midnight. that s why the flood emergency here remains in place in philadelphia until 7:00 tomorrow morning, and we re only just now getting a glimpse of how bad the damage will be here. i talked to you earlier today, kate, over at the banks of the schuylkill. that area has filled with trash from upstream, flowing downstream in philadelphia. it s a really big issue, and we know there have been many, many water rescues, 500 calls alone just last night according to governor tom wolf in montgomery county to the north, and we know several people have died in the state of pennsylvania as well. i ll tell you, where you are ....
Say, this is new jersey, not oklahoma, and they don t know what the insurance will cover. and, quite frankly, kate, they re not sure they want to relive the terrifying moments they had in this neighborhood last night. kate? it looks like a beautiful neighborhood torn to bits. paula, thank you so much for joining us. congresswoman, thank you for being here. i know you ve been traveling throughout the community today, seeing the destruction, the damage and destruction, and talking to the residents who lived through this. what are they telling you? so i think they ve gone through a range of emotions in the last 12 hours or so. you know, last night was just lots of fear. people didn t know what to do. they were literally watching what seemed like an ocean or wave pool right in front of their homes from their stoops. and today when we went around, we are mostly seeing recovery ....