i have a disease now. >> reporter: gary tuckman, cnn, new york. >> it's a lot of water. and people are going to figure out a way to move forward. either way. that's way too much water at once. >> the weather is expected to clear up as the storm system moves further east. >> but this morning, it's still raining in some parts of new york and new jersey. meteorologist allison chin car char is joining us with the littest. >> it doesn't look like this anymore, but we have more rain coming down. this was scenes yesterday. this is one of many roads likely looked like this with at least several inches of water making it very difficult for people to drive. you have some heavier rain bands starting to settle back in. most of these areas it's light rain at this particular point in time. but placess like massachusetts, rhode island, connecticut, even new york still getting some of the moderate rain bands from time to time. and that's going to be the case as we go through the morning hours. we have flood warnings and flood advisories still in effect for a few areas here. not necessar

more now from gary tuckman in new york. >> reporter: life-threatening flash flooding in america's largest city creating large-scale problems. many houses and apartments inundated, particularly in the new york city burro of brooklyn. one brooklyn man said when he woke up at 8:00 a.m., the water was at his knees. >> within about ten minutes, it was waist high. >> reporter: this was the scene at one of the city's largest parks. prospect park in brooklyn. >> how am i supposed to get across there? are you serious? >> reporter: cars, trucks, buss, driving through flood waters. the huge new york city subway system impacted with raging rapids pouring downstairs. it caused signal issues delay ing some of the subway lines and getting to aurpts, a challenge for many. on the grand central parkway on the way to laguardia in queens, flooded roadways. the new york city mayor warning people earlier in the day to stay in place, whether they were at home, work or in schools, which were open. >> i am issuing a state of emergency for new york city base ed on the weather conditions. i want to say to all new y

. >> gary tuckman got a close with the storm on board a plane tracking it. >> reporter: it's typicalthe hurricane hunters, eight scientists, engineers, pilots, they work for noaa. paul is the flight director and a flight meteorologist. >> we want to make sure we're collecting data in sparse areas where there's no data available, or little data available for the weather models to use to make forecasts. >> this aircraft flies between 41 and 45,000 feet. it travels around 500 miles per hour. this is essentially a flying weather station, a weather station that goes to the weather. for the next eight hours, the men and women of the noaa core will had fly in this recognizance jet around hurricane lee. after the jet leaves florida, skies are clear. at this high altitude, you can see white caps in the ocean. it doesn't take long for the sunshine to disappear. the flight gets turbulent as hurricane lee lurks below us. all the while scientists taking place. 34 locations where a tube will be dropped out of the plane. >> this is the next drop zone. what is in the drop zone? >> the drop zone cons