. >> people leave their homes in a surrey as water flows in in every direction. five malaysian states are submerged, and days of rain have turned roads into rivers. it's set up relief centers for the victims. but for some it's too little to late. they criticize the government for being slow to respond and failing to declare a state of emergency. >> maalation prime minister has cut short his holiday in the u.s. he had been in hawai'i visiting barac president barack obama when the heavy rains began. he said i am concerned about the floods. i feel for the people who have lost their homes and families who have lost their loved ones. i want to see the situation for myself and be with th the malaysian people. >> the water kept rising very fast, and within a matter of a few hours the it was up to knee level. >> rescuers are struggling to get to affected areas. diseases increase when flooding occurs, doctors say children and elderly are particularly at risk, and health problems usually appear in flood-affected areas after four to six weeks. officials monitoring the flood

i think what sort of surrey's is the political timing of this report and release of the report. if frankly, of course, democrats have to release it now because republicans are going to take over in the senate come 2015. >> schieffer: mr. gerson you thought the release of this report if i remember your words, a dangerous precedent here for those in the field who are out conducting investigations. >> there is in fact historical and security context that this street revealed in. president obama has adopted a manner of war that is heavily dependent on intelligence. intelligence we get from syrian rebels. that we employ in drone strikes. and people at the cia that i talked to feel under siege, people at the nsa field under siege. this is a period where we're putting a huge amount of pressure on our intelligence community to produce. at the same time they feel -- people involved with the broken program wonder, are we next? one told me, these people are viewed as torturers are we going to be viewed as murderers in ten years, in the drone program when someone else politically doesn't ap

we have fire location in lower merion, surrey lane, haverford road, with some local detours, chris, kerry, back to you. >> thank you, 6:03, breaking news for you, wynnefield section of philadelphia. >> steve keeley covering for us this morning, steve? >> well, bob may have a loft accident caused by the road conditions out here. but we can help. tell but this accident, not caused by the icy slippery snowy roads, but instead, here in southwest philly on 58th street, robbery and carjacking, the cause here, at 2:30 this morning, police say. the honda accord with the new york plates here, was coming down 58th in the opposite direction, that it is facing now on the other side of the street, the driver, police tell us, was being robbed in his car, causing him to crash, into two parked cars, across the street. the worse of the impact, the infinity you see, there and the second car parked behind it, the more affordable end of the infinity family, nissan, taking the chain reaction impact here, the crash woke up the neighbors, no surprise, who called police, and by then they say the robber ran away,

this is new video we just got from the jersey shore bureau of flooding on surrey avenue and ventner,antic city. here is a live look at the flag on top of the aramark building. we are tracking a nor'easter that's expected to bring heavy rain, some strong winds, and a coastal -- possibly coastal flooding to our area and some parts of our region could see some snow because of this system. nbc 10 first alert chief new jersey glenn "hurricane" schwartz is here now to lay it all out for us. >> this is going to be a long-lasting event. there are a whole lot of different things that are going to be happening, and we want you to know about them ahead of time. we've been talking about this storm for a week now. tonight through at least wednesday, we have a first alert out for that slow-moving nor'easter with some rain that's capable of producing flooding. very strong wind gusts. coastal flooding and also a change over to snow in some areas. we're way up here at the top of the screen and you can see a bit of a circulation way out in the ocean, but that's not going to stop anything. see, there's