brian mole died after his cruiser was swept away in floodwaters. stephanie gosk has more on the impact of this storm. half the town is currently under water. reporter: in the light of day, the storm damage on display, the danger far from over. water kept rising. in new york, boats carried people to safety. we lost everything. reporter: similar scenes in pennsylvania and new jersey where tornados also touched down. this neighborhood outside philadelphia ripped apart. ida was no longer a hurricane when it hit the northeast but it was no less a punishing storm. dropping so much rain so quickly, new york city was overwhelmed. more than 3 inches in central park in one hour, smashing the previous record. waterfalls gushed into subway tunnels. in queens, passengers had to jump on their seats, the bus driving through a river that used to be a seat. rescue crews worked to get to everyone but couldn t get to everyone. they got stuck in the back. reporter: a mother and son d
to prevent looting since their predecessors fleed. smoke rising from the u.s. embassy grounds as officials scramble to burn sensitive documents no they are destroying classified documents as i speak. the visa process is stopped. and now you know, president biden said in july, this is not going to be a saigon. it is not like south vietnam. but guess what? when i talked to ambassador crocker, we think it is going to be worse. president biden has increased the deployment of u.s. troops to kabul to 5,000 now to help with evacuations. and debate continues over which administration is responsible for the fall. there is no question that trump, his administration, secretary pompeo, they also bear very significant responsibility for this. president trump told us that the taliban was going to fight terror. secretary pompeo told us the taliban was going to denounce al qaeda. none of it has happened. we go beyond the headlines. we will start with nbc s ali arousi in tehran. from
state fire marshal saying crews are using high-tech tools, battling conditions made tougher by mother nature. rain creates challenges, lightning creates challenges. shifting in the rubble creates challenges. if the rubble shifts we have to stop because you can t take chances with people s lives below. we have people waiting and waiting and waiting for news. that is excruciating. we have them coping with the news that they might not have their loved ones come out alive and still hope against hope that they will. they re learning that some of their loved ones will come on out as body parts. this is the kind of information that is just excruciating for everyone. in april, two months ago, the president of the tower association sent a letter to residents warning the building was in need of repairs. the letter urged residents to pay the $15 million in assessments needed to fix structural problems in the building. the condo board president wrote the concrete damage to the buil
move materials, the better a chance that you hurt or disrupt whatever is underneath it. they have two active fires going on at that site. the men and women are working on top of one of them. you will see pictures and videos of this. i wanted to start with thinker because of the significance and the eeriness of this. the last time i saw an image like that is when our first responders were standing on the buildings that had been the trade centers and were working through smoke that was so acrid and so choking, and they worked tirelessly because they wanted to find who was there and give answers to the families. and it s happening once again here in florida right now. those men and women are working on top of an active burn, okay? and that is dangerous. they are trying to manage risk. they are standing on top 12 layers of building. it s all been so exprcompressedd it s been so challenging. there is zero quit in anyone that i saw on that site. and it s really important that the f
the operation that is happening. and there are a few things that are important to say, right off the top, now, about-48 hours in. the idea that there are not resources here is absurd. the idea that this is not work that s moving quickly is demonstrably false. this work, by its nature, is methodical. there are people who could be alive. and the faster that you move materials, the better a chance that you hurt or disrupt whatever is underneath it. they have two active fires going on in that site. the men and women are working on top of one of them. okay? you will see video and pictures of this. now, i wanted to start with this picture because of the significance and the eeriness of this. the last time i saw an image like that was 9/11 when our first responders were standing on the buildings. what had been the trade centers. and they were working through smoke that is so acrid, that is so choking, and they work tirelessly because they wanted to find who was there and give answer