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Wonderful week remembering all the ways we can remember those we lost, staten island is where i am today. when the sun comes up you will see the postcards on the island. >> thank you for bringing this to us. now to this. contractors in louisiana warning labor shortages and supply chain issues will pose major problems as the state tries to rebuild what was lost to hurricane ida. todd: joining us from big easy construction, joe, thanks for being here. here are the numbers, 93% of building executive support supply shortages, almost 100%, 74% of building executive report labor shortages. numbers d...

Monitor, check and lock down you money with security from chase. control feels good. chase. make more of what's yours. so we are back now with our breaking news coverage of the storm event that's happening in the northeast. i am going to bring in now anthony supa, a resident of new jersey who has been stuck in his car for five hours. anthony, is that so? >> that's right, don. yep. stuck since about 8:00. left dinner from a family event and got stuck on the other side of route 3. the water came down so hard and so fast that literally, there's 2, 3 feet in the street, rushing water. pretty ter...

Morning but still looks tricky. >> yeah, we're not out of the woods yet. hoboken last night received the worst storm event that we've had since super storm sandy. several streets in west hoboken are still flooded. passable as we wait for the water to be pumped out. just to give you some perspective, within eight hours, we had almost seven inches of rain. that puts us on par with hurricane irene, if you remember that. it was that type of rain event for us last night. >> neil: how was transit affected through this? you're a busy city in itself. but people are trying to get to new york and what h...

Hochul, who is joining us by phone. of course, governor, i imagine you've been up all night. what can you tell us about what the latest after this catastrophic flooding that hit new york and the rest of the northeast? >> well, yes. this has been absolutely stunning on a scale, people were caught off guard and so shocked. the residents who thought they would safely be able to go down to their basements or take the trains all of a sudden just this absolutely unprecedented storm event changed everything. new york city has been paralyzed. we've been in communication with the mayor he's on top of t...

We don't use it very often but it has a peak capacity of 19,140 cubic feet per second. you are talking about roughly 8.5 million gallons per minute. what that does is allow us to rapidly remove water from inside the system so that the municipal drainage can keep up with the street drainage. it is a complicated system of checks and balances so to speak. what it does when we have to run it and this is only the second time the flood authority has ever had to run this thing for a storm event, it allows us to get the level of protection that the federal government designed and provided us. >> it is...