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England. we just got word from the national weather service in new york city that central park broke a record rainfall record yesterday. um, they picked up 4.45 inches of rain. the previous record which was from the late-19th century, so a longstanding record, was 4.19 inches. so this is already a record-setting rain event as the system pushes to the north. we are going to see more in the way of records being broken across the northeast in terms of rainfall. the save grace here is that -- um -- hurricanes, tropical systems, to be really strong, they want sea surface temperatures -- that's how ...

Winds have died down significantly. they were raging, i guess as much as 40, 50 miles an hour in this area. hours ago it was different to stand here and do anything. we didn't. we went in for cover. so a sigh of relief. we have nod heard reports of widespread power outages. there's still tropical storm warnings in place, and the concern is that the ground is so saturated, and the storm seems like a rain event in many areas. there's more concern about flooding, more trees coming down, because the ground is so wet. that's why officials are saying, let's just wait a while and see how this all pla...

Rebuild their lives. >> all right. chris burns there, in belgium for us. derek van dam, let's -- let's bring you in. um, a lot of discussion about climate change. i mean, can we make the link to this, specific rain event? >> yeah, we sure can, michael. you know, we have some of the strongest evidence available to us linking this rapidly-warming world that we live in, with climate change and extreme-rainfall events, like we're seeing. and what we have seen in germany, the netherlands, and into belgium. you can see, that strongest evidence linking climate change to heat waves, coastal flooding, ...

Uninsured population, and we had not addressed that. we've also -- we haven't addressed the grid and the electrical grid. these are more pressing issues. i mean in the rio grande valley where i'm from we had additional flooding. and it's happened three years in a row and he's not addressed that. and funding those rights for infrastructure and drainage so people aren't displaced from their homes or lose their homes because of a rain event. as you can see his priorities are not in the right place especially when it comes to expanding medicaid and making sure that we have access to health care es...

To move the vehicles to higher ground ahead of what they believed was a 4 to 8-inch rain event. coastal flooding always an issue especially in the low lying areas. expecting 2 to 3 feet. again tropical storm claw dead making landfall here in louisiana just southwest of new orleans. rosa flores, cnn, new orleans. >> tonight enough is enough. that is the growing message from conservatives across arizona in response to the state's election recount. i'll speak with one of the republicans up next. and a racial reckoning. america marks the first juneteenth federal holiday since slavery ended 156 y...