laughter captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. It was fast andus. Today, parts of the new york metropolitan area got more rain more quickly than it had ever seen before, and heres of the result massive flooding, roadways disappeared, drivers were stranded and had to be rescued. Getting to work, a challenge on any day, was next to irm possible today. Don dahler is on long island, long and today deep in water. Don. Reporter so true, scott. The drainage system in this part of long island is designed to handle five inches of rain over a 24hour period. This morning, it got almost three times that much in just a few hours. The storm hit at the worst possible time the beginning of the morning rush. Commuters found themselves trapped in their cars by the rapidly rising floodwaters. Bill obrien was trying to get to work. Everybody just they tried to get off as fast as they could and climb up the side of the road because the water was coming up that fast. Reporter more than 13 inches of rain fell in six hours. That is more than they get in a typical summer. Tim harrington is a volunteer firefighter. Stuck on the side of the road or submerged in the water, a little over 50 people had to be rescued from their vehicles. Reporter how high was the water on the cars, most of them . The cars in the roadway, it was three feet or so. Reporter thats up to the windows. Up to the windows, yeah. Reporter theraphy rain spread from long island into southern connecticut and rhode island, thousands of homes and businesses were flooded. Boats and fire trucks were used in rescues. It was pretty pretty intense for the first few minutes. Reporter Robert Cabano is assistanttrand on a banner mountaintop and surrounded by violent islamic extremists, thousands of yazidis have spent 10 days looking death in the face. 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The mccallen Texas Chamber of commerce sent a letter to governor perry urging him to reconsider the deployment in light of the damage that will result to our community and the economy of the entire rio grande valley. Monica weisberg stewart rent retail space in mcallen. What is the concern about the impression that the border has been militarized . It also tells our visitors to the south youre not welcome. It send a very strong message. Ep has not said how long the National Guard will be deployed. State legislators plan to ask washington to pick up the bill, about 12 million a month. Manuel bojorquez, cbs news, mcallen, texas. Pelley the forecast calls for partly cloudy skies with a chance of meteors. Thats just ahead. Which helps support digestive health. Try boost original nutritional drink today. Incidents. It happened early this morning on southern avenue near pennsylvania avenue. Wusa9 scott broom says investigators believed the gunmen had no idea their victims were both police. Reporter the offduty detective was shot four times while resisting becoming carjacked at the intersection of pennsylvania and southern avenue southeast at 2 45 a. M. Hes expected to recover. Thats his personal suv being towed, this after another off duty officer also in her own car was attacked on suitland parkway south of stanton road about 3 miles away. There was gunfire there, too. The suspects were in this banged up and apparently stolen red Nissan Altima pursued by the first officer attacked when she lost sight. The carjackers picked a new target, the offduty detective in his suv. He was not able to draw his own weapon, but he was able to strike the vehicle in which