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And powerful all of a sudden it developed. >> wolf, this was unreal. it was not only the amount of water that fell, but it was in such a short time, and that's what created this. it is one thing to have this much rain over a long period of time, but when it all happens in three to four hours, you are going to get catastrophic flooding. and that's exactly what happened. this is our radar from last night. you can see all of the rain pushing through. idae ida's path has been relentless. more than 500 flood reports. we saw a lot in the northeast last night. 20 daily rain fall records fell. look at...

Of water. firefighters swimming as if they were in a river. >> here is the problem now. you have the canalls and streams overflowing in bridge port, pennsylvania now. water rescues are happening right now. people are stranded in their homes. we're continuing to see that in the tristate area. in new york city we expect the governor and the mayor to visit this home in queens as the cleanup and the morning begins for many of these families. >> bill: check in with you throughout the morning. janice dean is tracking this. it's almost like flash flooding. kind of what it amounts to. good morning. >>...

Different parts of the five boroughs very troubling. we're seeing a kind of rainfall we almost never see, this kind of speed with which the rain has come. everyone has to get to safety. >> reporter: the unprecedented rain turning roads and highways into rivers. the floods filling up this baggage claim area in new jersey's newark airport the storm forcing the facility into a ground stop temporarily. fire and rescue crews finding one person dead at this flooded complex in maryland. wind pushing around parts of the u.s. open, sending fans scrambling to leave in the downpours. outside pittsburgh, ...

The city has issued a travel advisory urging people today to stay home and off of the roads. there were dozens of water rescues across the city last night. this morning first responders were taking people out of homes by boat and a suburb just north of the city the governor of new jersey issued a state of emergency in his state in south jersey, a tornado ripped through a community. new jersey saw up to a foot of rain fall in just a few hours leading to flash flooding in places like newark where a 70-year-old man when his family's vehicle was submerged in the water. >> how quickly the rain came...

We had a normal rush hour going pretty much up until after 9:00 p.m. then that 9 to 10:00 p.m. historic one-hour rain fall really started to take out our service. what we're doing now is when the rain abated we began attacking the problem. obviously water and power don't mix. so we had to wait for the rain to abate. right now we're bringing service up. we have service on a number of lines. and we're starting to put other lines up as well. shimon said, the a-train, which is a block away from that times square station is operating. the commuter railroads extremely limited service this morning. t...