yeah. that s how you make your money, man. get your stuff. i m here. i ll hold you. just like that. that s in new york s central park. that water rescue one of many overnight in the city and across the region. the storm also shut down new york s subway systems and computer rail throughout the new york tri-state area. the flooding as you see here was of a kind last seen when superstorm sandy hit. the rainfall set records. at least eight tornadoes struck as the storm moved north and sadly every measure of destruction is likely to rise in the coming hours and days. cnn s miguel marquez begins our coverage tonight. he joins us from new brunswick, new jersey. miguel? reporter: just shocking how powerful this storm was. nypd says it affected 69 water rescues and over 160 other rescues there. i want to show you what s happening here in new jersey and new brunswick. this is a roadway next to the raritan river. it has started to recede, but you can see the cars, the station be
good evening. from virginia up into new england, at least 46 people have now lost their lives in what was once optimistically referred to as the remnants of hurricane ida. we begin tonight with new video just in of what it looked like as two members of the new york police department rescued a driver last night in central park. yeah. i mean, get your stuff. i m here. i ll hold you. yeah. just like that. that s in new york central park. that water rescue one of many overdmiet in the city and across the region. the storm also shut down new york subway system and commuter rail throughout the new york tri-state area. the flooding here was of a kind last seen when superstorm sandy hit. at least eight tornados struck as the storm moved north and sadly every measure of destruction is likely to rise in the coming hours and days. cnn s miguel marquez begins our coverage tonight. he joins us from new brunswick, new jersey. miguel. yeah. just shocking how powerful this storm was. n
i m kaitlan collins live in times square. john berman is in west chester county, assessing the damage because we re starting with breaking news this morning after there were torrential rains and catastrophic flooding that hit the northeast causing a lot of damage overnight and stranding people in their cars, causing people to be evacuated from the subway here in new york and at least eight people have died in new york and new jersey. several of them after calling for help after rising flood waters. both states are now under states of emergency. new york city had the heaviest single hour of rain in the city s history. and flash flooding has stranded thousands in the subway overnight and like i said, trapping people in their cars. rescues were happening throughout the city as new york city s major imposed a travel ban until about an hour ago due to the dangerous flood conditions. at least one tornado reported touching down in new jersey. and the storm is now moving up the east
i ve seen a lot over the last several hours, kaitlan. let me tell you. right now i m standing in manhattan. the good news is i ve made it into manhattan. the bad news is i m 147th and riverside drive. now, behind me, this is a sight you don t think you re going to see in new york city very much. which is a tree down blocking the road. let me do some high-tech camera work here and try to spin my camera around here just so you can really get a close look. this is a giant tree. these trees line riverside drive. you can see this one came down overnight and just smashed that poor volkswagon sitting there. and now this road is all but impassable and actually now if you want to see something interesting, now what s happening is these cars are all going the wrong way on a one-way street trying to work their way around the car. i saw a near accident a minute ago someone going the right way tried to come the other direction. you can bet the tempers are flaring. this is amazing. the i
emergency. that s a subway tunnel there. subway service is coming back this morning after it was suspended in a scene like that last night. imagine, hundreds are still stranded in stations across the city, and new york city saw rainfall worse. 50,000 olympic-size swimming pools in the course of just five hours. this is not normal, folks. these are live pictures from new jersey. that is flooding. communities up to their doors and windows, and that is a live rescue underway. first responders in an inflatable there going door to door, seeing if people need rescue at this hour. a tornado ripped through parts of gloucester county, new jersey. newark had its wettest day on record. records are being set virtually every day, folks. again, this is not normal. nearly all transit rail service has been suspended in new jersey. this morning united airlines says it is suspending operations from its hub in newark. that has tremendous repercussions for travelers across the country. all of th