call 1-800-341-9716. drivers trapped with water up to the windows, property damaged, people stuck at work, and a freak storm causes flash flooding in new jersey, and tonight, traffic is still affected. good evening. i m kristine johnson. maurice is off tonight, and cbs 2 s tracee carrasco is following this developing story, and she is live in scotchplains, where the cleanup is now underway. tracee? what do you have? reporter: kristine, westbound traffic opened up a little bit ago, but eastbound, it s still shut down. behind me, you can see the crews are still cleaning up that side of the highway. a few hours ago, this whole area that i am standing in was completely under water, and many say the afternoon s flash flooding caught them offguard. it came and went this afternoon, and it left cars stranded in the streets, areas completely flooded out. i have never seen anything like this before. reporter: there s the aftermath of an afternoon storm that set over union count
ready for bed but she never came out. i said what are you doing camping out the in there? i mean there was in response. i popped the lock on the door and when i opened the door, she was sitting on the toilet inn she was in the breathing. reporter: paramedics arrived and moved her daughter s life less body an ugly secret was revealed. i was shock. i had in clue. reporter: they found heroin packets. at five months pregnant, raven had used and overdosed on heroin. i was just shock. i really was shock. reporter: but then she began to tell me her daughter had a history of drug use but in the heroin she says and not when she was pregnant with her first two children. at 16 it was just smoking weed. reporter: she believes when raven overdosed she had just started using heroin because a few months prior she served jail time for stealing scrollery when she last relapsed. raven was also going through a break up. i don t know, maybe we are, you know, maybe we are going
came out. i said what are you doing camping out the in there? i mean there was in response. i popped the lock on the door and when i opened the door, she was sitting on the toilet inn she was in the breathing. reporter: paramedics arrived and moved her daughter s life less body an ugly secret was revealed. i was shock. i had in clue. reporter: they found heroin packets. at five months pregnant, raven had used and overdosed on heroin. i was just shock. i really was shock. reporter: but then she began to tell me her daughter had a history of drug use but in the heroin she says and not when she was pregnant with her first two children. at 16 it was just smoking weed. reporter: she believes when raven overdosed she had just started using heroin because a few months prior she served jail time for stealing scrollery when she last relapsed. raven was also going through a break up. i don t know, maybe we are, you know, maybe we are going to get through this. repor