emergency. that s a subway tunnel there. subway service is coming back this morning after it was suspended in a scene like that last night. imagine, hundreds are still stranded in stations across the city, and new york city saw rainfall worse. 50,000 olympic-size swimming pools in the course of just five hours. this is not normal, folks. these are live pictures from new jersey. that is flooding. communities up to their doors and windows, and that is a live rescue underway. first responders in an inflatable there going door to door, seeing if people need rescue at this hour. a tornado ripped through parts of gloucester county, new jersey. newark had its wettest day on record. records are being set virtually every day, folks. again, this is not normal. nearly all transit rail service has been suspended in new jersey. this morning united airlines says it is suspending operations
look, to be completely honest, if i knew it was going to be that bad, i would have slept in the office overnight so i didn t get stuck on the road where i am right now. yeah, yeah. new york city there was a travel ban in effect until about 5:00 a.m. this morning because the roads were that dangerous. and so many people, as you see there those cars caught out on the road as this was happening last night. and the videos coming out of new york city are just stunning in and of itself because there were buses that were going through several feet of flood water. of course, just a few inches can sweep you off your feet. just a foot of water can wash away your car. so these are incredibly dangerous conditions that so many people in new york were caught in last night. we re here in times square and you can see people kind of coming out and talking about how stunned they were by what had happened overnight and how this really caught people off guard. and it s having deadly consequences as well
dangerous. i think that a lot of crews were out. a lot of people are rescuing cars mostly. there are about 200 cars in newark alone that are stranded. i m sure there are more across the state of new jersey. we still have substantial flooding, flooding in the airport, flooding in schools, a lot of folks are working remotely or delayed open. they can t get around. we re basically trying to remove cars and debris out of the street and get some power back on in some areas. that s it. understood. now, we know at this point the death toll so far in new york and new jersey stands at eight. are there people still missioning, right? as these crews go out and you re removing debris, are you concerned that that toll might rise? not in newark. we haven t had that issue here in the city, by the grace of god. i can t speak for the entire state, but i do know in newark we do not have any missing folks in the queue. thank god for that. right now just assessing
out of new jersey. what are you hearing from officials on the ground about what they re seeing as they re waking up this morning and trying to assess the level of damage that happened overnight? reporter: kaitlan, also no shortage of damage, particularly in southern new jersey. i have to tell you, when i drove into new jersey from new york this morning, there were also plenty of those abandoned vehicles on the highway creating a very different hazard. this is what the aftermath looks like. for most it s traffic trouble. some of the major highways one in particular outside of downtown newark that leads into newark s international airport is blocked. so that is leaving drivers this morning with few options to get around. reporter: hurricane ida s remnants pummelling the northeast and mid atlantic unleashing strong winds, even tornadoes throughout the region. governors in new york and new jersey declaring states of emergency. it s always quite shocking
back down to closer regular levels. unfortunately the scenes you re seeing on the other side of your screen, a lot of those swollen rivers, creeks and streams are going to continue to look like that, at least as we head into the weekend. we had tremendous records set. newark, new jersey, having its wettest day on record. 8 inches fell yesterday. new york city having records, they ranked in their top five wettest days, picking up over 7 inches. now, the key thing about new york specifically is that a bum being of that rain really just fell in several short hours. again, they had their wettest single hour on record, 3.15 inches. from 8:51 to 9:51 p.m. that s why you had the subways looking like they did. it was a tremendous amount of rain in a extremely short period of time. now, as we mentioned, jim,