nonemergency travel and suspending and severely limiting subway service. this video of a rushing water surge into an apartment on 22nd street in manhattan, more than three inches of rain recorded in central park within an hour, shattering a record set last week. at the same time, ida s remnants unleerk rare tornadoes in the atlantic and northeast, like this one in annapolis, snapping trees, ripping off roofs, toppling power lines. similar scene playing out in new jersey. look at this. tornado caught on camera, causing serious damage. and this video of a school bus that got stuck in high water in frederick county, maryland. fortunately, all students and the driver were rescued safely and are home this morning. we have the best team of reporters. i want to start with stephanie gosk. what s the latest? zblt good morning.
a lot of homes, a lot of properties damaged. it is kind of sad. the last two days i filled up sandbags. these are my neighbors. these are people that i depend on and they depend on me. meanwhile a tornado touching down yesterday in maryland snapping trees and damaging homes as the dangerous storm front swept through finally heading out to sea. bill: the twister capping a dreadful months. hundreds of tornadoes across the country. a handful of states. now more on dangerous flooding. matt finn is live in dardanelle in arkansas. how is it looking there? it is stunning. we re standing on highway 155 now a few miles outside of dardanelle and you are witnessing the river rushing into this area. the levy has breached. we ve been reporting on this river hitting levels of 50 feet
force winds. by the way, right now, it looks like we are starting to enter into georgia. i m worried about those georgia pines. there is so much forest happened ahead of this storm. so much of it mixed residential. you will have folks going into the night with no power. the howl of 70-mile-per-hour winds the sound of snapping trees. a lot of folks are in for a bad time over the next hours. you see the rain band, it s saturating the soil. then you put the wind on top of. that they will lose trees and power outages. they will put the debris on the roadways. at night you will not see when a tree is crossing the road. this was a case for people who say to you. we have been pointing out all day. this was no one s fault, not the failure. in fact the professionals with the national weather service has
now after first making landfall. snapping trees in half. rifg trees out of the ground. at times hurricane force winds covering the entire island. east coast the cnn crew watched it rip a roof off the hotel. on u.s. virgin islands communication is sporadic and spotty. some there are relying upon facebook to ask about others who are missing. let s begin with cnn leyla sant in the capital of san juan. earlier you were being battered by high winds tough to stand. what are conditions like there now? reporter: you know still rain coming down, jake. so a little windy but not anything near what we saw earlier. the big problem now is the rain continues. and take a look behind me. there is quite a bit of flooding that has come as a result. many of the major roads