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The subways. they shut them down, they are trapped underground. that is not an option. but i want to assess why we don't stop new passengers from going down the stairs into them. it is about evacuation, not bringing new people into the system at the time. and your first question was? >> [ inaudible question ]. >> there were storm warnings, tornado warnings throughout the evening. but i will see whether or not more could have been done. that is a good question. >> governor, two questions. can you talk about any damage at rail yards and -- >> yeah, we have damage. and i'm going to be out visitin...

And really get some relief for our residents. you know, many of our residents have suffered through this for years. and they have kind of a ptsd every time they get intense rain and they get up set and anxious. i don't blame them. a lot of people lost everything they have. and it is the people with the least resiliency who lost the most. so we owe to our residents an our community to get help from the federal government to fix this problem. >> i have to say, it's really striking to hear that you've already had to rescue at least a hundred people from their homes. and do you have any guess or e...

[ inaudible ]. it happened so fast. we have no time to react or salvage what we can. we lost a total of three cars. one was parked in the garage and two outside. so sentimental items in our garages totally gone. and i'll show you images in our garage right now. and i don't know if you could see, these are bins that were up against the wall at one point. all toppled over. one of our classic cars that we had in here, the water damage is just unbelievable. water was litly over one foot high at some point last night. things are just everywhere. walls, sheetrock, everything is just totally destroye...

And it is not something where everything is wonderful in 48 hours. and we heard neighbors in new york city, talking about we always flood. they are lie-lowing areas and they haven't been taking care of so they always flood. they spent $2 billion to fix it and it is still not perfect. so there is a lot of work to be done and a lot of time and patience and people don't have the patience that they should have. because a lot of these things are not somebody's fault. a lot of them are just things that have been difficult to solve or for over a long period of time. you can't come in and do it the ri...

What is the situation in your town right now. >> the floods that we had last night was the most intense and most extensive that we've had in any one's memory. i've been an elected official for 21 years and this dwarfed anything that we've experienced and we've experienced a lot of flooding over the years. our emergency services have been hundreds of rescues. the rescues still continue. people are still trapped in their home. we have called in mutual aid from other communities. and you've asked new york state and for national guard and done everything we can do and keep doing to rescue our resi...