unless i'm really unhappy and then it's not great news. >> texts live forever, there is that. young people. >> uh-huh. >> yes, they do. the worst is not a voice mail but an accidental voice message sent by a text from your 87-year-old father who recorded it because he sat on his phone, which i still have not listened to, dad. because i don't know what you were doing. >> that's the oat thing and i hate read receipts. voice notes, you know when the other person read it and didn't respond to you. that's bad. i hate, immediate anxiety, call me, period. what is on the other end. >> that's the worst, and no indication. >> exclamation point. >> we millennials we know what's up. thanks everyone, here is "america reports." >> say to all new yorkers, this

is a time for heightened alertness and extreme caution. if you are home, stay home. if you are at work or school, shelter in place for now. some of our subways are flooded and it's extremely difficult to move around the city. >> john: a warning from eric adams as heavy rain continues to pound the city and surrounding region creating dangerous, even life-threatening flooding. john roberts in washington, stock brokers were seen walking two by two to a big wooden boat. >> sandra: it is a mess out there, john. this is "america reports." new york governor hochul has declared a state of emergency over the ongoing storm. it is still coming down outside as we speak. this after a months' worth of rainfall over part of the big apple in just a three-hour time span, more intense rainfall

expected for the rest of the day. >> john: precipitation of biblical proportions. national weather service warning all new yorkers to stay home, subways are badly flooded and drivers stranded on the roads in brooklyn. >> sandra: it is unbelievable out there. katie burn is braving it for us along the hudson river in hoboken, new jersey. how bad are conditions there? >> the water is not going anywhere. a number of streets look like this, submerged in it. i'm on a sidewalk, but if i step into the street you can see the water gets even deeper, about shin deep. it's just one of those days you can't really get around hoboken by car. we are by the train station talking to commuters. some say they started driving either to work or school to drop off their kids, and then ended up in bumper to bumper traffic

that was not moving with all the road closures around hoboken here. a lot of people are ditching the car and deciding to bike or walk to work instead. i met ronnie. he was running late to work, but now he's just hoping he can go home later. >> chaos, can't get into hoboken at all, you had to park in newport to get into hoboken to get into work, it's a snaffu. >> new york city, the worst of the flood there is targeting brooklyn and queens. subways there are taking on rushing water. laguardia airport terminal a is shut down because of flooding, so is the fuel farm. greenwood heights in brooklyn the lead for the most rain, picking up almost seven inches as we still have flash flood warnings for the next hour,

those could get extended. rain is not expected to stop until later on, even after the evening commute, it's a double whammy. morning commute is messy, evening commute is messy, you cannot win today. >> sandra: be safe out there, still rising and the rain is still coming. >> john: we have to get you some pictures from laguardia airport, all kinds of water in the baggage area. joining us by phone is oneka williams, she lives in brooklyn, katie said particularly hard hit. works at a daycare in coney island down there on the beach by the atlantic ocean. what was it like for you? my understanding is you got stuck on a bus. >> yes, hi. the bus was like crowded with people and then the water was just coming out of nowhere. i did not expect to see that at all. it just happened to just drive

into a beach full of water, i would call it a beach, unexpected, though, you know. >> sandra: we have your video up right now. i mean, was the bus able to continue on? >> yes. it had to divert to a different location so i had to, you know, find my way back up the road to catch another bus in order to get to my location to work. it was a mess. >> john: it obviously looks like a mess. the last time i can remember flooding, oneka like this in the new york city area, when hurricane sandy hit a number of years ago. were you in new york for that, too? >> no, i was not. but a sister from the church sister joanne, she told me about hurricane sandy this morning as well, was similar to this. so, i'm in shock, you know. this is going to be memories forever. >> sandra: we are showing video of brooklyn. this is also going viral.

lower manhattan has just gotten walloped, brooklyn heavily underwater, cars abandoned throughout the streets. have you been able to talk to your loved ones, friends, how is everybody doing? this is -- this is all over the boroughs right now. >> yes. my daughter had to go to school and the school was flooded in the basement, so they had to excuse the children earlier, so she went home and she reached home safely. my son, he stayed home this morning luckily, and everyone else is safe. we just have to, you know, get back. i left work early today so i can go back home because it's still raining and still going to be flooding and you know, we just take it easy. >> so are you on your way back home now, or have you actually made it back home and if you are on your way, how are you going to get back? i assume the busses are not running anymore. >> the busses are running. >> john: oh, they are. >> yes, the busses are running.

>> sandra: some of the busses, you know, i have seen just out the windows here, it depends can on where you are. subways, against on where you are. although if you brave the subways open you are likely to get wet. i think tammy bruce posted a video earlier going to the subway, water pouring in. grand central is a mess. grand central is, you know, it's leaking on the dryest days. you can imagine what it's like right now, buckets everywhere. have you ever been through something like this before? >> never, never. this is my first. i always watch it on tv, and never thought i would be in it too. it's like i was swimming in it, you know. it was scary. but you know, opportunity of a lifetime, you know. i'm happy i get that opportunity to experience something like this because i always watch it in the movies, i watch it on the

news, you know, never thought that, you know, i would be next. >> john: yeah, i remember when i lived in miami my neighborhood flooded regularly and there would be a couple of kids who would come by with an atv pulling a knee board behind them so they were making the best of it. we have not seen that yet in new york city. >> you have to make the best of it, yes. >> john: we have not seen that in new york city. although people were cross-country skiing down broadway in snowstorms in the middle of the wintertime. quite an ordeal you've been you through. one for the ages. now again, are you still trying to make your way home or did you get back home? >> yes, i'm trying to make my way back home, yes. it's still raining, yes. >> john: do you have to walk through knee deep water or find dry streets? >> i don't know what happened, but it seems like the flooding has disappeared now, i don't know if -- i see a lot of

trucks, so maybe they emptied drained or something is happening, but the roads are nice now. >> sandra: the best to you, be safe, we hope you get home safe to a hot chocolate or something, it's cold when you get wet and all that kind of stuff. these subway pictures, john, look at this. >> john: god bless you, oneka, safe travels. >> thank you so much, you guys. >> sandra: so sweet. she's been through a lot and still sounds happy. >> john: it is amazing when you take a look at the rain and the city for the most part is pretty flat and all of that rain accumulates and as she was saying, if you get some plugged sewers, the water backs up really, really quickly. i've covered hurricanes with less flooding from what we have seen here from a rainstorm. it's going to take a while for this to clear. sandra, my understanding, maybe you have a more recent update, a lot of the metro north trains, maybe long island railroad out of grand central have been

delayed or canceled. >> sandra: they have been halted, not going in and that causes chaos for many. although in this post covid era, so many have the ability to work from home, hopefully, alerts went out early enough to tell people to stay home so they did not risk coming in by car or by train. but when you halt the metro north trains from connecticut and north of the city, that affects a lot of people, john. it's like driving through this is, it's like a video game. you are dodging stuff that has come off of cars and vehicles in the street, abandoned vehicles, emergency personnel all over, but just again, it depends on where you are. we are in midtown manhattan, here, if you look out the windows it's raining. lower manhattan got hit harder than midtown manhattan. north of new york city up in the west chester area, seeing live pictures of new rochelle, 20

miles north of the city, it's a lake. it's bad. >> john: and this weather system is moving up into the northeast a little further north of new york, up in the catskills, into new england, into the green mountains, we could get a lot of flash flooding in the valleys. a lot of communities in the northeast in new england that could be at risk of more severe flooding. again, this is kind of -- sewers get plugged, the water backs up, it's pretty flat there. you combine that amount of water with hillsides, ravines and that sort of thing, it could turn into a deadly flash flooding situation very quickly. >> sandra: extremely dangerous to even get into the waters. as somebody who was walking through terminal a took video, you and i have both seen it, it is completely -- laguardia,

terminal a, flooded like all the baggage, everything. i don't know if you could gauge how high it was and the surrounding roads in and out of laguardia just a mess. >> john: when you consider a lot of the city is only a couple or three feet above the level of the water or long island sound, what other body of water might be nearby, it doesn't take much in order for the water and the land to meet. earlier one of our fox weather correspondents was saying she was along the east river at high tide and combination of the rain and the high tide up the east river was pushing the floodwaters right up and over the break wall. so, that's probably what happened at laguardia as well. flushing bay is right there and the water is just a couple feet below the level of the runway. so you get a little extra water combined with the high tide, it will flood things out very quickly. >> sandra: and this is obviously middle of the day on friday, and anybody who did get in -- look

at these images, just unbelievable. anybody who can get into their office or wherever they were travelling today, once you got here, it's gonna be a challenge for many of these folks to get home with train service stopped, subways, a lot of them are inoperable, i saw a lot of vehicles trying to avoid the flooding, you can see the car on the left-hand side of the screen, the person is either in there or abandoned it earlier. this can be extremely dangerous. what we saw was a lot of cars were just driving completely off road up over mud and grass to avoid the flooding and then that all chaos ensues, john. >> john: looking at the radar and looks like the rain will stop in new york city in the next little while. just one little tail end that's

going through. but again, the massive rain that flooded out new york city is right now in upstate new york, south and east of albany, poughkeepsie is getting killed right now and then into the hills of western massachusetts and going up through connecticut, headed for vermont as well. so, this is not over by a long shot, it may be subsiding in new york city but it's going to be around with us. >> sandra: just to give you an idea, the forecast says this rain is going to continue for the foreseeable future. there are hours more of this coming. by 9:45 this morning, according to new york officials, most areas around new york city had eclipsed the four inch mark. that was hours ago, john. some totals by at that point were six inches, central park near four inches by that time. jfk and laguardia airport, it

could be double that. 23 million people are under flood watches across parts of new jersey, new york and connecticut. flood warnings in effect for long island, manhattan, queens, and new jersey. we were warned about flash flooding and it is happening. >> john: it's friday, a lot of people are going to be getting out of town, trying to leave the city early. oneka got out of work early and trying to make her way home. combine it with the fact subways are not running, trains are not running to take people north and east of the city, or over into new jersey. there are a lot of frustrated people who were hoping to get home just from work who may not be able to do it for a little while and then the situation as you pointed out at the airport, so many people either coming back from business trips or heading home for the weekend after being up in new york. we'll keep following this for you. >> sandra: we will.

>> john: a live look at the white house where it's not raining, thankfully, any moment press secretary karine jean-pierre will face questions the first time after yesterday's impeachment hearing into president biden, and comes as the house oversight committee chairman james comer subpoenas bank records from hunter and james biden as part of his inquiry into president biden. bring in byron york. subpoenas for bank records from hunter biden and james biden, what do you think they could uncover, what could they reveal? >> well, i think what the republicans have discovered so far without any doubt is the travelling of millions of dollars from foreign sources to james and hunter biden among other bidens. so the question is where does it go then? as you know, the question that democrats have asked over and

over and over again, show us some connection to joe biden, show us some connection. i think the idea is the more you learn about where the money actually went after it arrived from china or ukraine or somewhere like that, the more they will know. >> john: so there is the where and we have a pretty good idea and some of the cases what the where is, where it's coming from, where it's going to. the big question, this could be really the key, is the why. >> yeah, and there's a couple things. one, if they could just show some money going to joe biden or entities around joe biden, that's one thing. now, is there going to be a tape where joe biden says yeah, send me $5 million and i will change u.s. policy. >> john: i highly doubt that. >> i don't think it's going to happen. it's not the way the influence peddling world works. you could make an argument this is the kind of thing republicans

should have been pursuing before starting an impeachment inquiry. they would say they needed additional authorities from an impeachment inquiry to get this stuff. but there is no doubt while they improved beyond any doubt the president did not tell the truth about not knowing about his son's business dealings and that millions and millions of dollars went through shell companies from foreign countries to the bidens, they have not established that link that democrats demanded over and over and over yesterday. >> john: so this is why comer is now saying maybe he might subpoena president joe biden's bank records. what he said, it's looking like we are going to be asking for his bank records. i mean, all roads lead to joe biden. from day one this has been an investigation into joe biden, not his son. his son is a key central figure because we believe hunter was the front man for the biden family influence scheme. donald trump eventually had to give a lot of records to a court

of law that he didn't want to, but can this president forestall a congressional subpoena? >> probably for quite a while, i would think. these things take a good long while. but, what comer is saying there is absolutely true. they traced the money only so far. they are very suspicious about president biden, then he was vice president, or former vice president biden, very suspicious about him getting some of the money or use of some of the money but have not been able to actually prove anything so are fa. what you saw yesterday was democrats with a very united front, throwing their bodies in front of this. they would do anything to stop it, anything to disrupt it, and it was actually politically very effective. and i think probably what it should have shown republicans is go back behind closed doors, keep working, keep gathering

information. remember, you republicans are in a much better position than you were before the whole whistleblower stuff and you could make more progress. >> john: cuba gooding, jr. said "show me the money." >> sandra: karine jean-pierre is holding a press briefing, they are talking shutdown. let's listen. >> these programs that families need should be continuing. we should not be in this position that we are in. this is something that republicans in congress and the house more specifically are heading us towards and you saw there was a chart that was up when we were speaking and you know, senate republicans -- senate democrat, how democrats, the president, we are all on the same page, all on the same page here, and for some reason extreme house republicans refuse, they refuse to get on board here. and as it relates to the shut down, should not be happening.

this can be avoided. they can fix this if they choose. if they choose. >> thank you, karine. i hear what you're saying and -- >> about what? >> about republicans and that they have to fix this, it's their problem, it's not ours and that's exactly what the white house said before the deal was struck about raising the debt ceiling. initially you guys weren't going to touch negotiation, you said it was solely up to house republicans, up to congress to raise the debt ceiling. but then the president did intervene to avoid the u.s. defaulting. so i'm just trying to understand at what point would the president intervene to avoid a shutdown? >> so i understand your question as well. here's the thing, and i think director young did a really good job laying this out.

what we are talking about is a bill, a bipartisan bill, that's what we are talking about, something that became law that was agreed by the five sides, right, the house republicans even themselves, two-thirds of them voted for this. this is law. this an agreement that was already made that multiple conversations were had about this, this should be simple. this should be easy. and that's what we are talking about. we are talking about something that already has existed not that long ago, that they all literally voted for in the house and in the senate, in a bipartisan way. something that i've said before, that's what americans want us to do here in congress and in the white house, right. in the federal government, to get things done in a bipartisan way so that it helps american families. and what they are doing, they can fix it. there's no conversation that needs to be had because they literally can fix this. it is their chaos.

they can fix this. and what they're putting at risk is our economy, national security as we talked about, military personnel, it's, you know, and we have been able, the president in the last two years has been able to get our economy back on track, right. we talked about 13.5 million jobs, talked about unemployment being under 4%, and what they are doing is incredibly irresponsible and it is reckless. so that's the difference when you are asking me you don't quite understand or trying to figure out what we are talking about. we already made the deal. that's why we keep saying a deal is a deal. and it's not just -- it's majority of congress that agrees with us, right. the senate actually moved forward and kept their deal. about 77 senators who are moving forward who voted to move forward with their c.r. they are keeping the deal. we are talking about a small fraction of congress and that's -- and that's reckless, that's irresponsible, and that's

why we are saying it is not on us to fix. it's not on this president to fix. it is on congress to fix and it's not just us. i started a briefing listing out quotes from republicans in congress themselves. i'm going to keep -- go ahead. >> on china, can you clarify if the administration is stepping up engagement with the goal of a biden-xi meeting on the lines of apec in november, for others to come visit in washington or meet u.s. officials? >> i don't have anything to lay out on potential meetings as it relates to our president and president xi. the president spoke about this recently and his expectations to have a meeting. don't have a location for you, don't have a timeline for you at this time. we are expecting the president as he said is expected to do so,

just don't have anything to share and once we do, we certainly will share that with you. >> follow up. a few days ago, yi seemed the suggest the onous for the biden-xi meeting lies on washington to promote cooperation. a summit that promotes cooperation rather than provoke confrontation. how would you respond to that? >> we are looking to have competition, that's what the president has shown. the president is looking forward to having that conversation with president xi. i don't have anything to share at this time, i'm going to leave it there. go ahead. >> does the president plan to take up mccarthy's offer to meet and does the white house see value in that? >> i'm going to be clear. the person that mccarthy or the people that mccarthy needs to talk to is his own caucus. that's who he needs to have a conversation with. not the president. the president had multiple conversations with speaker mccarthy early on to get this bipartisan deal.

that two-thirds of the house, republican house voted on. the conversation is not between the president and mccarthy. what i'm saying very clearly is the conversation needs to happen between speaker mccarthy and his caucus. that's the fix, that's the chaos we are seeing and that's where he needs to focus on. >> how would you describe the president's relationship with senator feinstein in recent years, last time they spoke to one another. >> the president reached out in august, they missed each other so the president had a conversation with her chief of staff. the last time that the president had reached out. i mean, the president spoke to this, you know, very i think very deeply, right, and just moments ago when you all watched his remarks, being and they were very close friends. they served together over a decade, 15 years in the senate together and he saw her as a close friend. one of the things that they worked on that is an issue right now across the country was

assault ban weapons, something they worked together on in 1994 and actually saved lives for those ten years before the sunset in 2004, right. so many things they have been able to work on together and so they -- even as president as well, and so they were -- he sees her as a dear friend. it is a sad day for, certainly for us here and also for her family, and clearly for the state of california and i'll leave it there. >> we just heard director young saying this is not hard, speaker mccarthy clearly is finding this difficult. can you give us any sense of how president biden sees the situation that speaker mccarthy is in. does he think the speaker is in a tough spot, have you gotten the sense that there is any sense of sort of sympathy towards speaker mccarthy or is it all pure exasperation? >> i'm not going to go into the

president's feeling about the speaker or his situation currently as speaker of the house. what i can speak to is what we have been saying all along, which is a deal was made. the president had, as you all know, and saw this happening when these conversations were going on in person and trying to get that bipartisan deal very early on in the summer, and what the president believes is many americans are going to be hurt by this. many families are going to be hurt by this, by something that extreme house republicans are -- they are heading us down a road that is unfortunate, that is reckless and that's what the president is concerned about. he's concerned about the american people and this is something again, they can fix this. they can. >> when the two men last spoke. >> i don't have a date or timeline of when they last spoke. when i can say is that clearly

director, congressional, or office of leg affairs has been in regular communication the weeks and months, i don't have something to confirm with the speaker. >> in the event of a government shutdown, does the white house believe president has responsibility to offer reassurance to people in the country worried about the situation? >> so look, i don't have any previews of any remarks the president is going to make. but either tomorrow, upcoming days, but of course the american -- the president is always when it comes to situations like this, you can expect to hear from him directly in the days ahead. i don't have a date to speak to at this time and here is the thing, the president is not going to stop working. he is going to continue to work and he's not going to stop delivering for the american

people in the event of an extreme republican shut down. you are going to hear from the president, i don't have anything to lay out and a specific date or time but of course the american people will hear from him. >> strike, has the president spoken to automakers after he said he supports 40% pay raise for uaw workers or after his visit to michigan. we understand from sources the chances of the deal in the near term have been complicated by the president's remarks about supporting 40% pay raise. >> i want to give some clarity, first the president's senior advisors have been in touch with all parties. i'll let you know if there's any conversations the president has or to read out with the automakers more specifically as it relates to the 40%. look, he believes they should get a significant raise, why the president keeps saying like a record profit should lead to

record contract. he believes the uaw workers should get a fair share for profits they helped create, and so the president has been really clear about that. as it relates to any negotiations and what they are asking for, he wants to make sure he leaves that up to the uaw leadership and ultimately members should be able to receive a fair and just deal and the president is going to be consistent about that. he has said that recently when he was in michigan, when you saw him on an active picket line, he was proud to be there in solidarity with the union workers, and he'll continue to be very clear about that. >> on the automakers part, you said his team is constantly in touch. are there any specifics or conversations after this visit, specifically after those comments? >> they have been in regular touch. i don't have like they talked today or tuesday or wednesday, but they have been, the senior

advisors have been in touch with all parties. they are not, i'm going to be clear, not part of the negotiations, not convening all sides. they are just there to offer any assistance the parties might need. we have been always very clear. it's up to the uaw leadership, up to the union to have these all parties involved to have these negotiation conversations, but again, we have just offered any helpful assistance they might need. >> can i go back to a question asked i think of umb director, a sense of what the white house will look like during the shutdown and who all folks will be here specifically from the -- [indiscernible] >> yeah, so, look, you know, and not going to have much more to share than what the omb worker said, many people will be furloughed, how it works, the

process that we are kind of dealt with here as we are dealing with this potential shutdown. but we will do our best, certainly, to continue communicating with all of you. we will have a press briefing during, you know, next week, and look, you know, again, they are going to be furloughed and some will be expected and continuing to work as the director said, and that's going to be across the government. the same case here at the white house and you know, that's just kind of the way it is and we are going to continue to deliver for the american people but it not business as usual when you have majority of folks furloughed. and that's kind of where we are sadly unfortunately in this time. but as it relates to the press team, certainly we'll be holding press briefings and we'll certainly have more to share. this is where we head down to,

which is the shutdown. >> thank you, karine. follow-up to an earlier yes, you say it's their problems, not ours, from the outside, outside the u.s. we see the government in more of a one thing. >> sandra: john, i don't know if a whole lot of progress was made but did hear the white house press secretary on multiple occasions blame the republicans for the government shutdown, says it's on them. >> john: and i think the republicans were ready for that, and we have seen this a number of times in the past and there was blame and inflamed rhetoric for a few days or a couple weeks and then the country goes back to normal and everybody gets about their business and maybe the sides that prompted the shutdown get a little of what they wanted. this is obviously an important story, something we will keep watching in the hours ahead. hey, breaking news to report to you. fox news alert, go to jeff paul

in the west coast newsroom where we have reports, 27 years after it happened, that an arrest has been made in connection with the murder of tupac shakur. >> not only the public has obsessed over nearly three decades, but one investigators have not forgotten about either. and considering to reporting by the associated press, las vegas police have someone in custody who they say was involved in the shooting death of hip-hop icon tupac shakur. davis was arrested this morning, although the exact charges is not known right now. two months after las vegas police raided davis's wife's home in henderson, nevada. police seized computers, cell phone, a hard drive, several .40 caliber bullets, tubs of

photographs and a copy of "vibe" magazine that featured tupac. davis is not a stranger, he wrote a tell-all memoir called "compton street legend," admitted to being inside the cadillac where the fatal shots were fired in 1996. davis has described himself as one of the last people alive to witness the shooting of tupac. rapper was at the height of his career, his fourth solo album called "all eyes on me," in a car with sug knight, a white cadillac pulled up next to them and fired roughly 14 shots. tupac was hit four times and dies days later at just 25 years old. we have reached out to vegas p.d. but have not heard back just yet. >> john: my understanding they will have more information later, but baby lane anderson,

sexual assaulted by tupac's entourage the night he was shot in las vegas was the prime suspect in the killing, and now the spotlight to the new suspect. >> according to a.p.'s reporting, a person who was somehow involved inn he was there at the time of the shooting and has said to have talked to investigators over the years, what exactly changed, what they found at his wife's house, we'll hopefully find out soon. >> john: all right, jeff, standing by for more information from the las vegas police department. thank you. sandra. >> sandra: new york city continues to be pummelled by the storm. images like this, brooklyn, new york, cars forced to a complete standstill. people on street corners raising

their camera to take video of this, remarkable images from all over the city. i think we have a live shot of staten island at this hour. as it is a messy, messy situation on a friday afternoon. the rain has been coming down for hours now. we'll try to get the live shot back up. first weather meteorologist stephen morgan. when does this end? >> it's a mess today. you know the end, that's a big question. probably later this evening. might have to wait until saturday morning before things completely dry out. sunday is looking nice. but we have to get through this mess. that rain fell hard, rose fast and then we saw flash flood warnings. including the new york metro, all five boroughs, manhattan included, around 10 million people under the current flash flood warnings. one of them we are watching runs to at least 3:00 p.m.. this threat began to ramp up

before sunrise, where we saw heavier bands of rain, these pockets really narrowing in on areas that can't really deal with a lot of rain notably new york city. rain levels, 2 to 3 inches per hour. it's east of manhattan. manhattan has seen quite a bit of rain. in north jersey the rain has tapered off but some flooding concerns in new jersey, hoboken, one of the cities that floods with the rain events. these are the totals impressive. throughout the day on fox weather we have been updating the numbers and now reaching and exceeding seven inches. brooklyn navy yard, 7.13 inches.

park slope, 7 inches. ozone park, we'll be impressed by some totals when the event is finally over. we are still watching some very heavy rain move on in. here is the fox model. we have so wait on some energy, the low pressure is closer to the outer banks of north carolina. that low needs to move on out of here. we also have a boundary, a coastal front has led to the enhancement of some of this rain. it's going to spin around the area of low pressure. the low will be well off the coast of jersey but on the back side of the low the rain will continue. plenty of time to see this. looking at the time, not into until the wee morning hours friday into saturday that it clears out. the colors here, heavy rain, that's producing the 2 to 3 inch

rain rate, detected in brooklyn. back to you. >> sandra: it does not look like it's ending any time soon. thank you so much. see you shortly. hoboken, new jersey, the rain continues to come down there. you saw the live image where the reporter brought the latest a short time ago. mayor adams put out another alert saying a travel advisory is now in effect until 6:00 a.m. tomorrow. many roadways, he says, are flooded. avoid driving. never drive into flooded waters. subways and busses are significantly impacted. obviously, john, a huge effect on so many making their way home on a friday afternoon or travelling elsewhere. he says we are working with the mta to get things running again. if you don't need to travel, please wait. and letting all new yorkers to follow notify nyc on social media, for alerts that would come in. more rain is coming, he says. stay informed and try to stay

safe. just unbelievable images there. john, this is really interesting. staten island, the left-hand side of the screen. you can see all the traffic. everywhere you go, like one side is open, one side is no. it's just depending where you are and likely on the right side the reason they are open is because there's been an accident back further and then the cars slowly get through. anything could be happening. >> john: and again, as the rain pulls away from new york, we saw the monumental flooding in an area that is relatively flat. a few hills in new york, but not a lot of them. so that was mainly accumulating on lower streets where the sewers are plugged, but now the rain pulls away and heading to the berkshires and green mountains and the catskills, we

could have dangerous flash flooding as it rolls into the valleys and ravines and the streams and they become extraordinarily swollen in a very short period of time. so, any towns that lie along riverbanks in that area of massachusetts into eastern upstate new york and as well into vermont, maybe even new hampshire, better be on the lookout. because there could be some concerns up there as well. >> sandra: just according to the metropolitan transit authority, chair and ceo of that says it's a tough day for travel, half the subway system is fully or partially suspended. if you must travel, busses are available. consult the mta app. a few minutes dated since then, the mta has put out alert they are pulling busses off the roads. you can see why. you can't go anywhere. it's bad. >> john: and if the metro north and the long island railroad and

new jersey transit are not operating or at least the trains that go into the tunnel from penn station out to new jersey aren't operating, that's going to create a real headache for people trying to get home who live outside of the city. and i don't know if it will subside to the point where they'll be able to get out later today or maybe they need to look for accommodations tonight. >> sandra: not just people trying to get outside of the city, but out of the city, the state, the airports are greatly affected. there are growing delays. i believe based on what we just saw zoomed in there, this is right outside laguardia, screen left. just a complete standstill there. also noting that there's going to be a lot of parents struggling to get to their kids with schools greatly affected by this. 150 out of the city's 1400 schools have been taking on water. this according to new york city officials. that can be obviously a very difficult situation to then, you know, manage getting parents to

kids to get them picked up and safely home. so, this is going to be -- this is going to have a lot of tentacles this problem. >> john: so let's go back to fox weather, stephen morgan, meteorologist watching this. obviously new york is getting the news because we see the flooding, which we have not seen since hurricane sandy so many years ago now. but as i mentioned, this storm is just as intense as it was when it crossed over new york and now it's heading into some areas where there's a lot of higher elevations, low-lying ravines and streams that could be swollen quickly. what is the danger as it moves north into the berkshires and green mountainses? >> that's a good point. massachusetts earlier this month, there was a flash flood emergency, highest end of warnings you can get. and massachusetts prone to some of this, especially with elevation at play.

the rain has been spreading farther to the north and as it is spreading it's weakening some. these are isolated locations and forecast models were picking up on this, sort of later in the forecast period. it really hopped on our radar literally, about 48 hours ago. focusing in on where is this the heaviest and new york city was in the bulls eye. along the jersey shore. we talk about the inland impacts, this is a coastal low developing. as it skirts away from the coast, it's going to pull the moisture with it. once you work up, even into the lower hudson valley, we know in july we had orange county, west point, highland falls, they suffered tremendously. it could be a scenario we see on long island, a lot of the commuters at a standstill. even trying to get a taxi is

tough today in the city because of how much rain we have seen and how slow going things are. but the heaviest rain we have seen, it is dispersing a bit, weakening as we see it push up into connecticut, some portions of connecticut in the flash flood warnings this afternoon, those will continue but i think the focus is going to be manhattan and points east so we are talking queens, brooklyn, farther to the east. here is the thing. brook haven, islip, it's going to be a narrow corridor and focus in on the rain totals, arguably the damage has been done. laguardia, getting back to that airport, terminal a is closed until further notice. so, operations have been halted at least in part because of this rain. otherwise we have ground delays and ground stops at jfk and laguardia today. >> sandra: i'm just getting some

of the latest updates here, gosh, those motorists trying to make it through brutal conditions. it is a mess. looking at some updates from the bronx zoo, botanical gardens, major flood stages there, water is still rising. you look at the right-hand side of this traffic is completely stopped in new york city. the major roadways going to and from some of the major airports from new york city. i don't know. as far as the rain in new york concerns, looks to me like we are looking at hours and hours still of rain in the city, but to your point, maybe that rain will be lightening up a bit in a few hours. >> and that's what we are hopeful for. and totals in excess of a half a foot. it's going to be a rain we certainly remember. even with rain rates, back in 2021 we dealt with the remnants

of ida, remember that. that was devastating for portions of the northeast. and so the rain rates have been rivalling that. see if the rain totals do the same. but as we work into the overnight hours, by saturday a lot of the rain is beginning to taper off. we might still see some showers. the showers are manageable. if we were to get an inch of rain or two inches over the course of 24 hours, that's one thing. but rain rates are in excess of 2, 3 inches per hour that's problematic, and the rain is lightening up and will be throughout the day on saturday, maybe some showers on the eastern side, montauwk, but by sunday we are good. >> john: faa website in terms of delays, 53 minutes at newark, of course because most of the rain

is on the eastern side of the hudson river. 137 minutes average laguardia, 202 minutes at jfk and of course as anybody who has ever flown into the new york city area knows the more the planes get backed up, the longer the back-ups become, and my understanding a number of flights have been canceled. if you are trying to get into new york, today may not be the day to do it. if you don't 100% have to be there today might be worth your while to stay the evening and a flight in tomorrow. with the rain clearing out, stephen, as you pointed out later on today and overnight, i imagine that airport operations will probably get back to normal tomorrow? >> that's the hope. i think at laguardia we might at least for specifically terminal a, the airport mentioning until

further notice they are going to be closed down. the roads leading into laguardia, too, a little roadway flooding. i think by sunday we'll see some improvements but talking about it all weekend here on fox weather. this rain event of note. >> sandra: ok, we are watching it, every detail of it. thanks for joining us. see you again soon. all right. >> our country, about our company and she was optimistic about baltimore. you never think it's going to happen to somebody you know or somebody in your family but bad things happen everywhere. >> sandra: shocking murder of a young tech executive in baltimore raising questions about the early release of the suspect from prison. we'll speak about the far left push to empty prisons and abolish the police. at's taking g bite out of family budgets? car loans. get a newday 100 va cash out loan. own your car and have no more monthly car payments. this is american infrastructure,

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>> sandra: fox news alert and fox weather alert. katie burns is live in hoboken, new jersey. we continue to get wild images from all over, not just the city, all the boroughs, upstate, travelers are trying to flee laguardia airport, angle deep flooding right now, similar to what you are experiencing on the streets of hoboken, new jersey. what's the update from there, katie? >> we are in a state of

emergency here in hoboken, the mayor decided on that a couple hours ago. streets are filled with water and this is a sidewalk here, a couple inches, the water has not rec receded much. a lot of roads closed down because of this creating just a travel nightmare for a lot of people because this all coincided timeline-wise with the morning commute hours. so, right around 7, 8:00 a.m. things picked up as far as the rainfall goes. it has not let up all day. we are still getting rain, making it hard for this water to recede. sometimes we can see a storm drain here where we are in this puddle of water bubbling up trying to drain the water but it's not able to because of how much water there is. we have been talking to

commuters, we are by the train station, some tried driving first by car, others are walking or biking in this mess. carter craft said he's no stranger to flooding, they are used to dealing with it, but this storm stands out. >> there are not a lot of transit options for people to get around. >> used to be the five-year storms, now seems to happen 3, 4 times a year. we have too much water in an environment overly paved. >> a bit of an update when it comes to the new york city side of things. brooklyn and queens are getting hit the hardest with rain and flooding right now. places seeing the most rain, at o one point greenwood heights, now it's brooklyn's navy yard, more than 7 inches of rain reported in the last half hour. it is a rainy, wet day.

going to impact, already has, the morning commute. it will impact the evening commute, the rain is expected to keep coming down and the national weather service office in new york, new york, they are getting reports of mud landslides in the low this west chester area of the city. >> john: katie, we talked about up in west chester, reports of mudslides. what about as it moves further north into massachusetts, western connecticut, up into vermont, where you get to have some substantial mountains up there. >> i was just in new england covering hurricane leah couple weeks ago, so a lot of these areas are seeing a surplus in rain. like where we are, more than 3

inches of rain they have picked up. that's what you are seeing in the new england area as well. so we have wet, saturated ground, makes it hard for the water to recede a little bit and that's going to be an issue as we go into the weekend because we know a lot of the alerts are in effect today into tomorrow. it's a story all weekend long, likely. >> sandra: katie, to your point, many may not realize it as we watched this storm. we have been getting so much rain to your point, the grounds were already super soaked ahead of this rainfall. look at this. this is unbelievable footage out of brooklyn, new york, just the roadways are crazy right now. katie, have you been able to talk to anymore folks on the ground there, are they able to get where they are going, get home, or get to work as needed or have they been told to just stay home all together? >> it's so interesting, sandra

and john. this week i've been covering the rain in new jersey, pennsylvania, every day, and the morning commutes have been impacted almost every day this week for northeasters. todays the worst day of all, i drove in from the philly area to new jersey, visibility very low in the morning. and the skyline, watching the visibility at times improve but it's back lower. it's a bit quieter now, computers were telling them, pleading with their bosses, don't be mad, i'm going to be late today understandably with everything on the roads and now some people are worried about getting home later. >> sandra: i was just going to mention tide. you are saying it's getting a little quieter as far as people but perhaps not as crazy behind you, low tide is 3:00 easter