If i was going to have to sleep in my car with my friend. Like, it was really insane. Yeah. Really sad because so many people, like, you know, everything s destroyed now. Yeah. Listen, we want you to be safe and we thank you um very much for joining us. S she is at a hotel in clifton, new jersey. Her home is bloomfield. She cannot get home. But man, oh man, it s going to be a while. And they will probably be stuck there. It is the top of the hour. It is just past midnight here in the northeast. And that s where several state of emergencies have been declared. The governor of new jersey declaring state of emergency. The mayor of yo new york city declaring a state of emergency. And towns and cities all over the northeast, states of emergency. We just had the governor of new york on the phone, kathy hochul, just moments ago saying they are looking at a possible statement of emergency here, in the state of new york. Um, but they have to meet certain parameters so we will see if she declare
In new york, the city issued the first ever, first ever flash flood emergency. Those are subway tunnels you re looking at there last night. They saw rainfall in just five hours, enough to fill 50,000 olympic size swimming pools, record rainfall in central park and happening right now in bridgeport, pennsylvania, water rescues underway. We ve seen live on our air in the last hour residents being pulled from their homes in those inflatable rescue boats there. Still people in need and still people s whose lives are in danger. Let s begin with the storm chaser. He s ray likener. You were following this during the worst of it overnight. Tell us what you saw then and what you re seeing this morning. Are you there? hello. Bad connection there. We re going to come back to you, ray, when you have a better connection so we could hear what you ve seen. I do want to go to evan mcmorris santoro in queens, new york, which saw some of the most devastating effects of the storm overnight and sadly wher
Want to say is this group of folks here are the epitome of resiliency and we re here with you. We re going to continue to be here with you. Again i want to thank the governor, and senator schumer and the mayor, just for the collaboration of resources that are going to be here in queens. We want to make sure that we re all here to make sure that this is done equitably and that these folks here that have been suffering so long suffer no more. Thank you. At this point, we ll take questions. But i also want to make a statement before we go on to questions. To the people who live on streets like these throughout the city of new york, i want them to know, a new administration, my administration, we don t govern by press conference. Yes we re here today to answer questions but i want to assure them it is not just about today, but it is what we do tomorrow and the next day and the next day. So you re going to see a different tone, a different era of collaboration and i served as a council memb
Chester county. This affecting so many counties. So many cities and towns in pennsylvania. Thanks for the update there. So top of the hour, i m kate bolduan. Thank you so much for sticking with us. We are following just breaking news all throughout the northeast. Active water rescues are underway in three states at this point. In pennsylvania, in also let s add a fourth. In pennsylvania. We re seeing some in delaware as well. In new jersey and parts of new york. Historic flooding, breaking records. Record amounts of rainfall coming in a matter of hours. And that is what is so different about this storm than we re hearing from officials. It s not just the total amount of water. It s all of the rain falling in just a short amount of time. And the pictures you re looking at, what we re being told from the officials is what s happened with the remnants of hurricane ida here is places that don t usually flood, they are flooding. Places that don t normally face tornadoes, they are getting hi
With four people dying after being trapped in their flooded basements. Tornadoes reported in pennsylvania and new jersey where homes were reduced to rubble. Bryan llenas is live in one of the hard hit areas in queens, new york. What are you seeing, bryan? good afternoon, emily. We re talking about at least 16 people that have been killed as a result of the historic flooding and torrential rains from yesterday including nine people in new york. Two people, a mother and her son, died in this apartment when flood waters came rushes in to the basement apartment. Four feet of water came in there. They had five minutes to get out. Unfortunately they could not. The father and the other son were able to get out. They were not. 2yearold boy died in a similar basement apartment. The governor of new york, kathy hochul was here. They were caught off guard by this record level of rain. Listen. We did not know that between 8:50 and 9:50 p. M. Last night that the heavens would open up and bring recor