steve: a levee has broken in northern new jersey across the river from new york city and flooded three towns. the conditions of motacki and little fer yecarstat near the sports arena are devastated and an official four-five feet of the water rushing in the town. crews are on rescuing people. joining us is meteorologist joe bastadi. thanks for having me. steve: starting with the levee break, this is to be expected after a gigantic storm surge. it was caused by storm surge rather than the heavy rains. you will get the levees breaking. but we didn t have major