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Provided to us. yet the drone and the inspection of the riverbank leading into the arthur kill which is where the river deposits is ongoing as we talk. >> mayor, we really appreciate your time. we know that you and your emergency service personnel have been doing yeoman's duty trying to save people for all of these past more than 12 hours now thank you very much for your time. we are thinking of everyone in elizabeth. >> thank you for having me. >> again, we are watching these pictures, boundbrook, new jersey, as they are now rescuing people. the water at one point was up to their waist. of co...

The back garden apartments that are right near the river, we actually drilled holes in the second floor down to the first floor in order to rescue people upwardly. we were able to do that, yet two -- a male and a female in their 70s and a male and their female in their 30s succumbed to the raging floodwaters of the river, and we found them when the water receded about 3:00 or 4:00 this morning. >> wow. i mean just to talk about the resilience of some of your firefighters there, that because they couldn't go through the windows they went through the first floor, drilled down through the floor t...

Of water rescues, dozens of homes under water according to the mayor. in montgomery county to the north according to the governor's administration there were 500 calls for water rescues just last night. governor tom wills spoke earlier and he says he has no doubt it is because of climate change. we have not seen river levels this high on the schuykill in philadelphia since 1869. former governor ed rundell spoke and said he has not seen anything like this since 1976 in the blizzard, an entirely different phenomenon. the cleanup will be on the top of people's mind, but not until the river recede...

This was the most serious part of the city but not the only part impacted in a negative way. >> give us a number, if you can, of the number of rescues side wide in the city of elizabeth that were executed over the last period of time since the storm hit. >> the total rescues we don't have but clearly in the hundreds. the fire department is accumulating that number now as we seek to relocate the folks that live there. but currently we have drones in the air that are going up and down the river, checking the banks of the river in case anyone was swept away by the raging river. we also have the r...

Flood warning still in place, right? >> reporter: that's right, victor. the flood warning here in philadelphia stays in place until 7:00 tomorrow morning. the skchuykill river behind me only crested at 17 feet a few hours ago. now it is about 16 feet. the national weather service says the skook ill will not be below flood stage until well after midnight. the impact far and wide. you can see the famous boathouse row behind me, it has been under water for hours. that is interstate 76, the schuykill expressway, it is a parking lot because it is hard to see where it begins and the river begins. it...