paula newton is in mlica, new jersey. and te muntean is in philadelphia. miguellet me begin with you because at least 23 people, we re learning in nejeey, have now died from thastorm that passed through. fldwers are still ghear ere you. are they ever going recede? reporter: they are, and they are receding now. there s an alarm going off over here. actually look over this way. they re inging a truck in, probably to start moving out some of that debris as the wat the tide is going out here o the rareton river in new brunswick and the water is going with it. when we got here several hours ago, the water was up over ts wall i m standing on now. it s recedrobably 10, maybe , 12 inches downhis wall. so by morning, most of this water, if not all of it, will be gone but there is going to be aot of debris left over, and that s why you have that vehicle there