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Join us. we're calling this a one in 500-year rainfall event. in six hours, you had nearly 8 inches of rain falling in newark, new jersey, in new york city more than 6 1/2 inches. in new york, according to our meteorology team they saw something like half inch of rain in a couple of minutes. steph, i want to start with you in new york. we've been watching you this morning. it's almost sort of unbelievable what you're looking at, given we expected devastation when hurricane ida was moving up through the gulf coast. people had been bracing for that. this seemed to take people a little bit by sur...

Concerning here in new orleans because it has been pitch black. the streets are dark. no power. i can step to the side here and our photo journalist will zoom in to bourbon street here in new orleans in complete darkness. the only reason you see light on those buildings is because jake our photo journalist has been able to throw a light from an independent power source on to those buildings and illuminate part of bourbon street. it is total darkness. the good news here is at least in the french quarter the flooding has not been too bad because it is a higher level of ground than much of the ci...

It will be a weaker system by then. it turns into a regular storm by the time it gets to the mid-atlantic, but we have to deal with a big rainfall event. we're through wednesday in the northeast. the same areas that got hit a week ago from today by hurricane henri, so the rainfall totals, heaviest in mississippi, along the border of alabama, tennessee, watch out around nashville and you had a ton of flooding over the last couple months, and all of this mess goes to the northeast. this area of red in here, alicia, this is five inches of rain possible, even around the new york area. it's like, y...

So far it seems like they are being told you can't do these types of things. i really wonder what 9/11 2021 is going to look like. are americans going to feel that they're more safe from terror than they were one year ago or even 20 years ago? steve: great question. ainsley: yeah. thank you for your service, too. colonel, in the army reserve. >> thank you. steve: thank you, congressman. >> thank you. steve: 14 minutes before the top of the hour. let's check in with senior meteorologist janice dean. she is taking a look at what do you have going there, janice? janice: well, this was the heavy r...

Jon: big weather events today let's go to our meteorologist tracking henri and a deadly flooding in tennessee from our weather center. >> the storms yesterday the single biggest rainfall event in the state. over 17 inches in the town of waverly and at one point we saw 9 inches of rain in three hours. 40 miles to the west of nashville right now there are 22 fatalities confirmed and dozens still missing along the duck river which rose so quickly with that amount of rain our thoughts and prayers are with the people from tennessee obviously putting so much attention on the hurricane coming on sure...