that a bad combination? it is worse, and two of three, and we don t generally get snow or tides like this. and the morning tide was an issue, and we have another high tide tonight, and the winds are pinning the ocean up against the seawalls all day, and we expect more water tonight, and worse flooding maybe in the minor to moderate range, and some of the other speakers are talking about is the worry is when the water recedes, they will freeze and difficult to get out. we have a long night ahead of us and long cleanup tomorrow. terrible situation, and we are hoping for the best, and everyone, and jim, again, happy birthday. thank you, and good luck, and have a good day. thank you, all of the best. still ahead, breaking news, russia moves naval drills further off of the coast of ireland following vows from irish fishermen to disrupt the exercises. and then afloating around in space for seven year, space
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the raging schuylkill river. it rose two feet above flood stage a couple of days ago. you can see the currents are raging right now, folks are not recommending that anybody make their way close to this river here. in terms of what happens after that water is pumped out, i can show you, this is just a small example. in this case it happens to be an area usually used for recreation. you can see what s left behind after the flood is pumped out or the water recedes. debris including trees, a jet ski here. this gives you a sense of how swift those floodwaters and some of these rivers in the northeast were actually flowing just a couple of days ago. obviously the water has receded significantly here but at the same time, again, this just goes to show you how devastating it has been in the northeast. over the last couple of days,
could all face lawsuits. and the court let it happen, under the cover of darkness. let s get right to the latest on the historic flooding in the northeast. i want to go live to our reporters on the ground. miquel marquez is in new bank brunswick, new jersey. miguel, let me begin with you, at least 23 people, we re learning, in new jersey have now died from that storm that passed through. floodwaters are still high near where you are. are they ever going to recede? reporter: they are, and they are receding now. there s an alarm going off over here, actually if you look over this way, they re bringing a truck in probably to start moving out some of that debris as the water recedes. the tide is going out here on the raritan river in new brunswick and the water is going with it. when we got here several hours
junked. the water got up to five feet. if you look at that yellow backpack, that s how high the water got inside. needless to say everything here is going to have to be junked. emergency workers in westchester going house to house by boat rescuing people from their homes. the devastation left behind after ida dumped several inches of rain in some parts of the northeast including new york and new jersey, some spots getting up to nine inches. we believe the storm took 43 lives in the northeast. some of new york s most critical highways came to a stand still after floodwaters swallowed cars, stranded drivers. now the cleanup and towing continues as the water recedes. after the historic rainfall turned lethal with storm waters rushing into apartments, subways, buildings, the nypd moved to put a task force together where the floodwaters came high to search for people. we went through a lot of pain in the last 48 hours but