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New york city top five wettest days. look at this. one hour time, more than three inches of rain fell in central park. i don't know any city that can handle that much water, those high of rain rates coming down. that is going to create flooding, no doubt about it. we had flash flood emergencies stretch 190 miles. the problem now the skies have cleared. the water is still there. we have rivers overflowing their banks. wolf, it will take a couple of days to get all of this water to recede. >> let's see what happens, but it is a horrible situation right now. jennifer, thank you for that update. g...

Discussing has had to do with the dramatic nature of the storm, the way it has formed. its ability to retain its cohesion. hours and hours after making landfall. what do you see when you look at hurricane ida? does anything stand out to you? >> hurricane ida is a really impressive storm. it's yet another reminder, i think, of the fury nature can throw at us. we got a little lucky in some cases when it comes to hurricane ida. it's fortunate it's passing to the west, i would say, rather than to the east like hurricane katrina did. and as a consequence, we're probably going to be seeing less dama...

Afghanistan at about 4:00 p.m. eastern time sunday. cnn -- cnn will, of course, carry it live. i want to bring in lieutenant commander robert mitchell. he is currently flying over hurricane henri aboard one of the hurricane-hunter aircraft. it's great and unusual and -- and a privilege to get you. i know it takes a while for data to be processed but what are you learning about this storm? what is it like up there? >> well, every time we go into the storm, we are really just trying to measure the -- the winds and the effects of the different dynamics of the storm as it's trying to grow and pr...

The first one, being sea level rise is making storm surge more district istive. this makes sense because naturally if the water level is higher, when more water gets pushed in it's at a higher risk. because the sea level rises, it can come further inland than it would have friar that. another -- prior to that. another it increases rain rates. the overall amount of rain that the storm can produce. think of examples like harvey or florence, of how much rain those storms were able to produce overall for the areas that they hit. the third point, storms becoming stronger due to warmer oceans. we kn...

Snow. for most, in new york city, 5-6 inches. these are some snowfall totals that will be added to that. so whatever snow you have, there will be spots getting an additional 10-15 inches. widespread we're talking 6-12 with isolated areas getting anywhere from 12 to 18 possible inches of snow. it's a big system. while this is going on, we have another thing happening across the country. there's a big weather system in southern california. a whole lot of moisture coming in. this is a spot that was damaged severely in the fall because of those wild fires. so these rain rates getting up to a coupl...