the mayor of hoboken joins us right now.e waters are better than they were this morning but still looks tricky. >> yeah, we're not out of the woods yet. hoboken last night received the worst storm event that we've had since super storm sandy. several streets in west hoboken are still flooded. passable as we wait for the water to be pumped out. just to give you some perspective, within eight hours, we had almost seven inches of rain. that puts us on par with hurricane irene, if you remember that. it was that type of rain event for us last night. >> neil: how was transit affected through this? you're a busy city in itself. but people are trying to get to new york and what have you. floods like that on the other side of the hudson the same deal, how did you handle that? >> yeah, you know when you have half a city under water, traffic comes to a standstill. we have to issue a state of emergency. a shelter in place order, which means stay home. a restriction on nonessential travel. so we strongly urge people to work from home tod

i've declared an emergency here in hoboken.hink this should be a call to action, a real wake-up call we need to take actionable measures. press conferences and interviews are nice but what happens the next day and the day after in terms of driving public policy towards climate action is critical to making sure these things don't are happen in the future. >> julie: when a state declares a state of emergency we have new york and new jersey and pennsylvania, that obviously means the state then is eligible for federal dpunds to help those in need. how does it help the actual people in need, the people whose homes have been destroyed, the people who have nowhere to go, their cars are destroyed and left with nothing? how do those federal funds help the actual people on the ground? >> that's a critical question and it is something we've experienced before in hoboken. it is essential for emergency declaration to be declared in the new york/new jersey area. that triggers through fema the ability for individual people who live at the str

. >>> joining us now is the mayor of hoboken, new jersey. mr.you so much for being with us this morning. obviously a lot of damage, a lot of problems in new jersey. why don't you just give us a sense of what's happening in hoboken. >> thanks for having me. hoboken last night suffered one of the most devastating storms in recent years. this is on par with hurricane irene. we experienced 6 1/2 inches of rain in an eight-hour period. i was with the police chief last night at around midnight, 1:00 driving through the streets. i've never seen anything like it. so people were all hands on deck with our emergency operations. police, fire, people abandoned -- it was quite a challenge last night, but we're slowly entering the recovery phase later on today. >> and have the 911 lines just been jammed this morning as people are waking up? what is that like right now? >> unfortunately the number of calls for service has been overwhelming. people with alarms activated, downed wires, abandoned vehicles. i just want to thank our police and fire departments for

hoboken is no exception, this is a major enter section in downtown hoboken.ere is still a little less than one foot. it has started to recede. at its worst, a lot of residents were worried. with me right now, nicky zanker. you were here last night at its worst. what did you experience with the storm? >> i live over there. i'm on the second floor. you can hear the rain on the roof. felt like we were under it. torrential town pour. you can feel the waves in the water, the puddles on the street. it was crazy. >> you were on a higher floor. were people concerned? >> yeah. at one point there was a man throwing sand bags at the door to make sure water wouldn't come in. unfortunately water did come in. we did the best we could. >> were you taken surprise by this storm? it was forecast but people didn't expect this. >> totally. they gave us warning. no, i don't think anybody expected this. >> glad you're occasion. we say that because especially because nicky happens to be my niece. thankfully she's okay. we were worried about her. unfortunately nine people did die in

the city of new york is under a state of emergency where christmas salumi is in hoboken, in new jersey, just across the hudson river from new york city. so kristen, what is the situation like where you are while many in the northeast are still in a state of shock over the intense rainfall and the damage and death and destruction that it caused overnight. as you said, at least 2 dozen people we know now have been killed as a result of the storm. aid of them in new jersey where i am more than 9 and 9, i'm sorry, in new york city. as a result of rain flooding basement, pouring into homes, trapping people in basement apartments, flooding the streets like you can see behind me here, seems like this. i can tell you are all over the northeast from maryland up to new york. and including here in new jersey, the rain came so hard and so fast that many were caught off guard to be fair. new york did issue a flash flood warning emergency on wednesday evening. but it is such an unusual event here. the 1st time such an alert was ever issued in new york. it really seemed to catch a lot of people, incl

the former head to venezuela's military intelligence has been arrested in spain. hoboken harley's wanted by the us on drug smuggling charges, spanish police say the 61 year old was found in madrid. he had been on the run since 2019. still ahead on al jazeera holly feels return to the rain gets an added twin. that's coming out to stay with the news. the news news news with me. ah ah. ah, i'm not his jo falling. thank you. well, let's start with an incredible story. at the us open tennis i 2 teenagers, have made it into the women's final britons, m a radical new and canadian layla fernandez both continued their impressive runs in new york and will now face each other for the title on saturday. david stokes reports emma ready, connie was 18 years old and playing in her 1st us open. he was up against greek 17th seed, maria secaria in the semi finals, but didn't seem phased at all. the british play a runaway with the opening set 61. it was a little more competitive in the 2nd, but right economy again came out on top to take the match and secure her place in the final. he reached the 4th round

they now join culver city, california and hoboken, new jersey school districts, which already mandated testing and vaccines for students and staffers. >> i'm in favor of mandating teachers, personnel in the school get vaccinated. in the school, children able to get vaccinated, 12 and older. >> reporter: since classrooms reopened, covid outbreaks have closed more than 1,400 schools and taken lives. at least eight public school staffers in tennessee died in the past month after contracting covid. still, parents like bryna makowka says vaccine mandates go too far. >> this is no one's right but the parent and the child, to me. >> reporter: and the division in schools is also unfolding in homes. the mother you just heard from says her son's father wants him vaccinated. here in los angeles tonight, 40% of eligible students remain unvaccinated, at least for now, norah. >> o'donnell: but the school may change that. all right, jonathan vigliotti, thank you. well, tonight, more than 100 passengers, including at least 20 americans, landed in qatar, afghanistan since thet flight out of afghanistan

she joining us from hoboken not over in new jersey or press conference is just wrapped up. chris and officials were giving an update on the situation. what did they have to say? well, officials in new york, new jersey and pennsylvania really are still taking stock of the situation. we know that there are at least 14 people who have died as a result of the storm. 8 of them in new york, where people were trapped in their basement. at least 5 here in new jersey family was found also in their apartment. all of the details are just coming together. pennsylvania also is expecting to report multiple fatalities, but not releasing a number as of yet because they are, they are still in the process of rescuing people from homes and cars. the situation here has just caught it so many people off guard. there was a flash flooding alert for new york that was issued in the evening on wednesday. but it's just not something that new yorkers are accustomed to dealing with and many were caught in their vehicles as roads became flooded. similarly here in new jersey, you can see behind me there'

services that were established so the crews of the tugboat used bedsheets and painted them to say hobokenr some other destination. that way people could get closer to where they wanted to be. this is something that i think about these days. when that happened, you want to go home. you want to just be in a safe place. for some people, home was right there. that was -- one of the mariners lived overlooking north cove, right that area. he ended up rescuing passengers and transporting fire department personnel. he finally went back in norco where he started that day. degen north cove and teen knew it was impossible to been into his apartment and he sat there in the boat which was where he worked. he just sat there and opened a beer and looked at the red glow, not knowing what to do next. if you had a choice to go home, you would want to do that. people did their best to evacuate people from danger but also to get them as close to home as they could. host: at 9:59 a.m., the south tower collapsed. we have another piece of video from a short documentary produced in 2011. this describes a panic a

the crews of tugboats used bedsheets and painted them to say hoboken or some other destination so that people could get somewhere closer to where they wanted to be. because remember, and of this is something i think so much about these days, when bad things happen, you want to go home. you want to just be in a safe place. for some people, home was right there. so that was actually one of the -- one of the mariners lived right into gateway plaza, which is overlooking north cove, right in the area. he ended up rescuing passengers and transporting fire department personnel and he talked about at 2:00 in the morning going back to north cove, where he started that day, and he knew his apartment was not possible, so he just sat there in the boat, the boat where he worked. it was not his boat. he just sat there, opened a beer, and looked at the red flow, just not knowing what to do next. if you had a choice to go home, you would want to do that. some people did their best to evacuate, yes, from danger, but also to get them as close to home as they could. host: at 9:59 a.m. that morning the so

hoboken's needs are different than mill burn's needs, for instance. but i think it's the small important steps, building back from waters, building up all the way to the bigger projects that divert stormwater into either green spaces or into hard tanks and infrastructure or barriers or levees. i think it's a combination. and i do think, you know, this is going to take time, so there are some steps that are in the so-called quick fix category, but a lot of this stuff is going to be investments that will payoff over decades. >> one of the most alarming things from this storm, we're seeing people die in their cars, right. i mean, trying to get away. perhaps underestimating the risk. but i wonder, is one of the lessons from this that warnings when something like this is approaching have to go out earlier and more urgently to avoid deaths like those? >> yeah, i'm not sure about earlier. we were screaming out all day on wednesday. i had a press conference at 1:00. our emergency offices, functions were activated at noon at the state level and all counties. t

that's true in small towns, in pennsylvania, in new jersey, and it's equally true when you get to hoboken haven, connecticut. and now, as ida moves further north, we are seeing reports of cars submerged in wooster, massachusetts. and in barnstable, massachusetts. now, thankfully, in the past few minutes, the tornado warning on cape cod has expired. hopefully, the last of the tornado warnings. we saw some incredible images of tornados earlier in the day in maryland and in new jersey near philadelphia. these very kind of -- it is very rare to see a tornado of that scale on the ground in the northeast. but it was all kicked up due to the remnants of ida as this storm moved north. and i think when daybreak comes in a few hours, the questions do turn to infrastructure. can cities like new york and newark and new haven and providence be more -- be -- be built in a way to be more resilient during these storms? because think about what happened ten days ago. cnn aired that live concert in central park, and it was called off halfway through because of torrential rain. we found out that night it wa

. >> slightly, right i am happy to report that i lived in what was called skinny apartment in hobokener than skinny house to boston, 1.25 million gets less than, what 1200 feet that is a thousand dollars here square'i lived there once one of the coldest major cities always windy boston is worse no thanks to every consider bringing the. >> apartments in my neighborhood are more than 2,000 dollars a square foot. that is -- >> wow, really. dagen: really. >>. maria: you wonder if a bubble about to burst in new york. dagen: never here never bursts here. maria: we will take a break more "mornings with maria" live on fox business right after this. ♪ ♪ ♪ . it's another day. and anything could happen. it could be the day you welcome 1,200 guests and all their devices. or it could be the day there's a cyberthreat. get ready for it all with an advanced network and managed services from comcast business. and get cybersecurity solutions that let you see everything on your network. plus an expert team looking ahead 24/7 to help prevent threats. every day in business is a big day. we'll keep you rea

i lived in hoboken at the time and that was stuff of nightmares. >> it's claus terphobic enough because of the fans and everything i love nypd, all those guys, if they tell me hold off for a second -- >> yes, sir or ma'am. >> good idea i trust you guys then i ran up here, too. i got out. >> i will say because of that stupid movie -- >> you aren't in shape or anything -- >> we usually go around. it was fine. it was fine. i stepped over a couple of things >> i will tell you, because of that movie i still to this day when you drive through the tunnel there's the demarcation line between new york and new jersey i wait until when i see that line, so i know if something happens i need to run forwards or backwards. >> and when i get here, one thing i need to do. >> what's that >> hair. >> not what i was thinking. >> not makeup. it's sue per flew yous it either doesn't help or doesn't help enough. but the hair. >> did you get sun yesterday or is that from running this morning? >> what's that >> when you do the hair with the velcro -- >> it's like a shirt have you ever worn a shirt for a while,