i was here for hurricane sandy in new york city. and your viewers may remember flooded streets, flooded subways. well, tonight, in new york city, the entire subway system is essentially suspended. the roads everywhere i saw coming out of the airport and beyond, flooded. dozens and dozens and dozens of cars stranded. people trying to work out what to do. get out of their cars. try to walk somewhere in the pouring rain. fortunately, i had um a very battle-hardened new york uber drive uber driver who was committed to getting me home through some very sticky patches but it was like rivers out there. um, and i saw many, many people in a lot worse condition than i was. thank goodness. and, james, as you have been speaking with us, we have been looking at these pictures. the images are just extraordinary in the subway. on the roads. just amazing. as you say, never seen anything
jersey neighborhood. you lost part of your roof? the whole roof. reporter: the neighbors bore the brount of this storm, aluminum siding, roofing, furniture and children s toys piled on top of a family car. the house unlivable. first responders remain on scene along with utility companies who spent the evening going door to door. it s horrible. you never expect anything like this to happen in this area. my daughter ran out and said get in the house, quick. then we came out and this is what s happening. reporter: piles of debris that can be replaced. families fortunate this wasn t worse, now tasked with how to rebuild. what do you start to right now we re just trying to figure out where we re going to go. plenty of sport. neighbors, friends, family. but what do you do? downtown annapolis, maryland. the state capital, home of the u.s. navy academy. also took a direct hit from the tornado as ida rolled through. a section of the main highway into the city was shut down by
long night spent at the subway waiting to get home. the danger of the rushing water was obvious in front of these stores in new jersey. the governor urged people to stay off the roads and a confirmed tornado raced through south jersey wednesday night moving at 40 miles an hour. the torn rnl rainfall that broke records in new york is moving on from the city heading northeast. but all that water of course had to go somewhere. subway service in the city is extremely limited with emergency crews working to rescue passengers stuck on trains. and we heard from new york s mayor a little earlier, urging everyone to stay indoors. i m very, very worried about what s happening out on the roads. i want to urge everyone get in quickly. do not stay out on the roads, it s dangerous. we re seeing a kind of rainfall we almost never see. this kind of speed with which the rain has come. everyone s got to get to safety. do not be out on the roads if
this is what i experienced then, it s up there with one of the bigger major weather events that i ve seen in this city. yeah. totally understand that. james west, thank you so much for talking with us. and we re glad you got safely home. yeah, i ve got to dry my hair now, i think. there you go. thank you so much, james. bye-bye. the other breaking news on cnn, the u.s. supreme court will not block the most restrictive anti-abortion law in the country. texas has now enacted a near total ban prohibiting abortion after the sixth week of pregnancy, before most women even know they re pregnant. cnn s supreme court reporter ariane deberg has this story. reporter: the supreme court is declining to block texas abortion law. in fact, the court has just issued this order formally denying a request from texas abortion providers to freeze this state law that bars abortion after six weeks. and what s critical here is the
you have any choice. and the subways also i m sad to say, the subways are basically out of commission at this point. also not safe to go there. tomorrow do not go into a street, a road, a highway with a lot of water accumulated. that can be super dangerous. joining me on the line now from brooklyn, new york is james west. thank you so much for talking with us. rosemary, thanks for having me. and james, you just flew home to new york city from abroad. what did you think once you realized the city was flooding? how did you get home? i was arriving from london at jfk airport, and it s usually a bit crazy getting home. usually about half an hour to 40-minute trip. this time turned into over two hours, maybe 2 1/2 hours to get home straight into the aftermath, the remnants of