there were no injuries or deaths. that s good news. yeah. reporter: about 6,000 people are out of power. and so this, of course, is the eastern shore of maryland. this is not tornado alley. this is where that residents here are not used to this type of activity. we talked to one business owner earlier, who was talking to us about his business, his roof is completely ripped off his business, but his workers are all okay. hallie? gary live for us in annapolis, gateway to the east shore. i want to bring in now meteorologist bill karins. this is somerset, new jersey, a chopper shot coming in live from one of our affiliates. if they zoom back in again, we have no control over this camera. we re watching this with you live as it unfolds. it looks like there s another boat, another potential rescue. look at this. look at the flooding in these communities. look at how high the water is, coming up now to these homes. those are traffic lights. and you can see the water up to
we ll take you live those news conferences as soon as they start. you have streets that look more like rivers. all morning we ve been seeing scenes like this play out. first responders, an inflatable boat, inflatable rafts, helping people escape their flooded-out homes. this is epic rain and shut down a lot of the subway service in new york. new york city subway has very limited service. this is the scene at some of these subway stations. you can see it again, gushing water. the entire nearly the entire new jersey transit rail system is down, too. and this morning they re surveying the damage from dangerous tornadoes created by this storm. several homes in new jersey and maryland totaled in a matter of minutes. wind, nearly five minutes, and then everything was decimated. i m hallie jackson in washington, along with our nbc news team. stephanie gosk is in the city of queens. gary gombrach, and bill karins