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United states, and officials say many more people are currently missing. these are just some of the scenes of flooding and extreme weather we've seen from new york and surrounding states over the past few days. president biden has said that climate change is to blame, and that action must be taken to tackle a climate crisis. residents and business owners are now assessing the damage left in the wake of the storm, as rescue and recovery work continues. joining me now is nicholas isabella, a storm chaserfrom long island in new york... nicholas, thank you very much for joining us on bbc news toda...

Underway. >> [ inaudible question ]. >> yeah, so we're going to do that full hydraulic assessment. but rainfall rates were really extraordinary and far exceeded the capacity of the system. anything over 2 inches an hour we're going to have trouble with. >> if i could just follow up on katie's question because you are all talking and governor, for all of you as well, you're talking about this is a warning call and a warning, but the fact is we've been having these events, we're talking about how this happens all of the time. we have two hurricanes in last couple of days and you talk about the n...

>> so we're going to do that full hydraulic assessment. but rainfall rates were really extraordinary and far exceeded the capacity of the system. anything over two inches an hour we're going to have trouble with. >> we were all talking, for all of you as well. talking about how this is a pretty -- but we have been having these events. people are talking about how this happens all of the time. we had two hurricanes in the last couple days. can you talk about the need for investment, but what is it for people right here right now, the next time it rains a lot, will they be in the same position t...

>> the storm is gone, we're collecting all of the water and the flash flooding into the rivers. the schuylkill river it has crested, it just peaked at a brand new record high. and the river level is about 27.6 feed. these pictures here from the tornado went through the area here. the flooding and summer county, new jersey. take a look closely at that picture on the right yesterday afternoon that river was at 4 feet, now it is at 27 feet high. that's how quickly it rose with the intense rainfall rates in this area. so this is all happening very

Rose high. but you can't do more than that. maybe we could have shut down roads sooner, closed, sent workers home earlier, could have prevented people driving into flooded roadways. some died in parish because of that. maybe that could have been done. flash flooding is a different beast. it moves in quickly and then it moves out. a lot of small rivers and streams that did the damage last night, it's gone. it is a sunny day. it was in and it was out. these rainfall rates were just -- my house here, stephanie, i sat here three to four hours. i could not believe how hard it rained with flashes of...