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Where you get the significant flooding over union county. High resolution futurecast shows encouraging signs. As we lose the daytime heating, we lose a lot of the fuel in the atmosphere for the storms and i think everything will weaken as we approach sunset. The problem is as we head to later in the week, especially friday, there could be a much more widespread potential downpour and flooding situation in the tristate area. We will talk about that in the full forecast coming up. See you then. We will turn to the folks trying to clean up from the storms. Nina pineda is in scotch plains. She continues our coverage. Reporter liz, we are talking flooded basements, ruined cars. I will show you how the force of this water behaved here on route 22 eastbound. Look at that. That is the pavement just buck ltd under the force of this day buckled under the force of this deluge. They are talking 3 to 4 inches they thought an hour. It came down the hill and actually up the highway and took the stree ....
And im sade bederinwa. Left a mess. A viewer posting this picture of the rain pouring down. Tonight, the pictures of the aftermath. Eyewitness news reporter, jim dolan in scotch plans for the tour of all this destruction. Jim. Yeah, rob, this water came down fast. Take a look. They just now opened up the westbound lanes of route 22. All these hours later, the eastbound lanes are still being cleaned up. Theres permanent damage. They will have to fix down there after the water came fast and for a little while, it was scary. Margarita diaz was looking for high ground. Water got into a lot of cars on route 22 today. And the sad sound of car alarms filled the damp, heavy air. Big dump trucks couldnt make it through the high water, so smaller cars never had a chance. The car in front of me drives right through it. Like johns bmw, thats it after the water receded a bit, but this is earlier when you could only barely see the roof of this car. He escaped without his shoes, but came back minutes ....
Now, new yorks number one news. Channel 7 Eyewitness News. I didnt think it was going to keep coming, so i took my shoes off, jump out of the car, ran across the street to the gas station to take cover. Drivers bailing out as the waters rise. Tonight, cleaning up from flash floods that brought down brick walls and drenched peoples homes. Im rob powers in for bill ritter. And im sade bederinwa. Left a mess. A viewer posting this picture of the rain pouring down. Tonight, the pictures of the aftermath. Eyewitness news reporter, jim dolan in scotch plans for the tour of all this destruction. Jim. Yeah, rob, this water came down fast. Take a look. They just now opened up the westbound lanes of route 22. All these hours later, the eastbound lanes are still being cleaned up. Theres permanent damage. They will have to fix down there after the water came fast and for a little while, it was scary. Margarita diaz was looking for high groun ....
Door of a building in Lower Manhattan last night and fatally shot a Security Guard before killing himself. The building houses a regional labor. Tonight a new jersey congressman comes to downings defense, representative bill pasquale said downing was a whistle blower who felt he got a raw deal from the bureau of labor statistics. They were searching for anything motive. But so far no clues. Now we learn more about the victim idrissa camara, a Security Guard who was working down. Renee stoll is live in soho with the lead story. Good evening, joe, i talked to the guards family and friends and they tell me not only a Security Officer but he armed guard never talked about his job being dangerous and he never felt that way. And i also found out that he was a great fam ....
Far rockaway went up in flames. An eyewitness tweeted this picture as the home burned. It broke out on the first floor on cornaga avenue around 1 00 this afternoon. Kemberly richardson at the scene in far rockaway with our lead story. Joe joe, fire marshals are going over each and every part of this house. As the chief told me, there is, quote, something odd about this. He said it is highly unusual to have this much fire shooting out of all of those windows right there on the ground floor at this time of day. Just after 1 00 this afternoon. Typically a fire like this is able to spread so fast because it goes down at night when people are sleeping. I spoke with the man who tried to save the two people trapped inside. It was a Daring Rescue youll only see here on Eyewitness News. Take a look. I opened the door and i shouted barbara, get out seconds before in this video youll on ....