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Manville, new jersey. look at this devastation here. this was a home that exploded after residents believed was a gas leak because of the rising floodwaters from a river that's about a block away from here. the ems medical personnel could not get to this home because of how high the floodwaters were. this home exploded and the house next door caught fire because the emergency personnel could not get her. luckily there were no injuries from this building. but across the state of new jersey, 25 deaths are reported from the bloods and various tornados across the state. kendis? >> i flew in to new...

Infrastructure to handle the deluge of water that comes now with the storms and i take it that's what we're learning in the northeast, that the infrastructure may not be able to handle monster storms that drop rain at the rate this one did. >> reporter: it is interesting you bring that up, chuck. seems like we just don't. we got the answer last night. speaking to folks in new york city which is where i live, building folks, said new york is not built to withstand storms we had in the last summer. this is the third kind of rain blowout that we had this summer, but this one being the worst, and ...

That storm. it's a pattern we have seen in recent years, and we would not be seeing this in the absence of human caused climate change. the warming of the planet, the record temperatures of our oceans in recent years, has fueled these monster storms. >> yes, they have. craig, let me ask you this. you mentioned that these storms are different this time around. and they are. not everything is exactly the same as came before. but what's different this time around, which wasn't there in 2005 with katrina, is of course, covid. as someone who ran fema, how hard a task has it been for the federal gov...

These devastating events now. they don't care about whether you're a red state or a blue state. the climate doesn't care about your politics. all of us are subject to these monster storms. we're seeing out east, you know, and in the gulf coast, but let's not forget out west right now, we're still seeing record wildfires burning right now. we still see the dixie fire, the second largest wildfire in california history, is currently burning. it is threatening to become the largest wildfire in california history. so we're subject to these multiple challenges, these multiple assaults, because of cl...

But we have a little bit to the north, all right? so they're going to have a little bit of a longer duration of rain, and that moves in, in a matter of hours. some of these thunderstorms, it's even see some of the lightning strikes. that's going to be a concern. however, the winds, the tropical storm force winds do not extend outward very far. this time of year, we don't see the monster storms. that doesn't mean over in surfside, they could have an isolated thunderstorm that develops a tropical storm force, maybe even spin up a small tornado. we don't want that. most of the activity will be we...