homes. what happened is we had flash flooding. all the streets filled fast. look at how many homes have water in them. talking hundreds of residents there alone effected by that, water over top of the railroad tracks heading to the other side. looks like that s staging spot for police and additional rescue boats driving through the area. that s just one river. the rareton river in new jersey is similar, that will be cresting later today. all these rivers are near all time records, if not all time records, considerable to 1999 with hurricane irene. let me get into the numbers and how mind blowing the situation was. north of philadelphia, they had 6 to 8 inches, that s what fed the river we showed you. newark, 7 inches. we ended up with 5 to 7 inches near boston, too.
this is the schuylkill river, big one through delaware and towards philadelphia and the raredon river in new jersey. cresting as i speak and today. that s where rescues are taking place like this. the town i lived in, the river hit an all time record crest a block from my house. what s left is a muddy mess. i m looking at this water here. after this water recedes, there s going to be three to four inches of muck behind this. that will be in homes too. we don t know the exact locations of images we are looking at, but it shows how widespread it is. even the idea could people have gotten in cars and evacuated, where would they evacuate to? it knocked out the whole region. as you said, it is a sunny day this morning. naturally, beyond the rescues what happens, the water is naturally going to recede?
with warming of the planet, we re tending to get more extreme weather events, whether in the west with droughts getting worse and fire seasons getting longer or with extreme rainfall events. there are recent studies how tropical systems are stalling out more, not moving as quickly. wasn t the case with ida. this storm moved 20 to 25 miles per hour through the region. but as the planet gets warmer, there s warm water vapor in the air, more moisture in the air. when we have storms, they can produce more rain. that tendency would tell us that still really dramatic pictures coming in. you can see where the river is supposed to be on the left. middle of the screen, you can see a secondary river formed there. hold on, bill. that secondary, wait, that river doesn t normally exist. walk us through that image on the left. no, yeah, the helicopter went off it. you can see where the main
retrieval ifrts at our brook at benson and main. we had witness accounts of two individuals, young adults, one male and female may have swept into the brook, into the river. we have divers and firefighters presently determining the best course of action to try to see if they can identify individuals. i want to say i hope not, or retrieve bodies, hoping against home the individuals are found safe. we were told from people that they were very good swimmers, the individuals that identified the people the potential people there. last night, firefighters, police, emergency responders, their commitment, their efforts result in many lives being
rivers that feeds this creek, crested four to five hours ago. later in the day, this water will start going down, but you can see where the river is supposed to be, where the bridges span and see how far left that water is. banks to the right side of the screen held, banks to the left side, that s one, two blocks inland that flooding is taking place. stephanie, yeah. the bottom line with climate change, yeah, go ahead. if those buildings we re looking at now have one to two feet of standing water in them, what kind of permanent damage does that do? are those buildings repairable? are they going to have to get completely demolished and rebuilt? depends. obviously if it is homes which some of those look like they re homes, you re talking about bottom level floor has to be cut, sheet rock replaced because