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Understatement. this is, you know, first time ever we have had a flash-flood emergency declared. >> reporter: across the northeast, the death toll continues to rise. among the victims, a 2-year-old. >> this has been a biblical storm by -- by every means. >> reporter: in queens, the new york police department commissioner says at least eight people died in the basements of homes inundated with water. >> the roads everywhere i saw coming out of the airport and beyond flooded. dozens and dozens and dozens of cars stranded. >> reporter: across the big apple, first responders rescued hundreds from ...

Newark was 7.88. new york was 6.63. this was a one-in-500-year rainfall event. going into every year, the odds of this occurring, the odds of this occurring was 0.2. it's crazy. i was out around my town until 1:00 a.m. last night. fire was rescuing people. so widespread, the devastation and destruction out there. we've only begun to see a little of it. >> i was going to ask you, bill. what was it like? what was it like to experience this? so often you talk about this stuff, but you found yourself in the middle of it last night. >> i sat in my house for three hours, no tv on, just listening to ...

In any of those. it's incredible. and the a tigss are telling us this was a one in 500 year rainfall event. that means going into every single year, .2% chance of this happening. it shouldn't happen again but, of course, with climate change we wonder if these numbers are changing. we know as the planet warms the atmosphere can hold more moisture, which means it can rain more too. the storm is moving out. boston is done. cape cod getting a little bit of rain. we are almost completely finished with ida. we'll see tens of thousands of cars flooded, still stranded and littering the highway. it's a...

Yesterday morning, but we did not know that between 8:50 an 9:50 p.m. last night that the heavens would literally open up and bring niagara falls level water to the streets of new york. could that have been anticipated? i want to find out. >> reporter: in central park, 5.2 inches of rain fell in just three hours. a 1 in 500 year rainfall event, something officials say is only getting worse because of climate change. >> we are in a whole new world now, and this is a reality we have to face. >> reporter: show what you are looking hat now is the memorial parkway or highway 18 just next to the rar...

One spot on staten island got a foot of rain. it was very, very close to what we predicted. this is what actually happened. you know, maybe it was going to be a little bit to the north, and it was a little bit south. everything is magnified when 10 million people in new york city go under a flash flood emergency. that's the largest flash flood emergency in the history of flash flood emergencies. new york city had never issued a flash flood emergency before and yesterday they issued three of them. it is unprecedented. what happened, we've had huge rainstorms. this was the fifth wettest day in c...