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Salvageable. i mean, the desktops, i d thought i d have phones toker monitors and i have lift equipment, scanners, tools, everything was completely submerged. reporter: will you be able to bounce back from this? i ve been worse. i m trying to lose the anxiety and come to grips and i would like to get back to work but as you can see we still have 2 and a half foot of water inside so we haven t got there yet. reporter: appreciate it. ryan said the water reached to the top of the stop sign. 5 and a half to 6 feet. take a look at this video. this is a basement in a home in cranford, new jersey, collapsing the wall of the basement. ....
The ten-year anniversary of hurricane irene that devastated kranford. there is a flood control plan. we cannot afford another one of these traumatic significant rain events. something has to be done. so i will be asking the governor and the congressman to be more aggressive in advocating for us and the federal government, with the federal government, and the army corps of engineers. we need a solution, an ongoing 100 million in damages and people s homes being devastated, ....
It s unacceptable. maybe the news was forecasting rain. and it caught them by surprise. what needs to be done to better communicate with residents? cranford was dealing with two flood emergencies. one the flash flood, that was unprecedented, and the second flooding from the river. so we were prepared, our police department was prepared putting out notices, regularly, about every half an hour. in anticipation of what we expected to get. so there was obviously much more. there was the amount of rain that fell in such a short period of time, six hours, was impossible to deal with. so we have been very assertive ....
Hit the state in more than 30 years. this was an ef 3 with winds of 150 miles per hour. in the next hour governor phil murphy is set to visit cranford, new jersey. you can see the line on the cars there. that flood warning is still in place until at least noon today. i want to bring in the mayor now of cranford. thank you for taking busy time out of your schedule. why is that flood warning still in effect? it is in effect until there is enough of the recession. ....
In new jersey, a doorbell camera capturing a home explosion, suspected to be from natural gas. the neighborhood had already been evacuated. in downtown philadelphia today they were still pumping water out of the vine street expressway into the river. in horseham, pennsylvania, every power line on this street and many others is down. the devastation still so painfully clear. president biden paying a visit today, promising help, saying no community will be left behind. and tonight in the northeast, flood warnings are still in effect. abc s senior meteorologist rob marciano leading us off in westchester county tonight. reporter: tonight, new terrifying surveillance video from inside a basement in cranford, new jersey, showing the sheer force and speed of the flash flooding that killed dozens of people across the northeast. watch again. just seconds after that person ....