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The Fox News Rundown

Evening Edition: Remnants Of Ida Causes Deadly Flooding In The Northeast

The Fox News Rundown

FOX News Podcasts

Daily News, News, Politics

3.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

The once tropical cyclone, Hurricane Ida, brought torrential rain to the Northeast Wednesday causing flooding that killed more than twenty people, submerged subway lines and swept away cars. Water rescues were still being conducted today for people trapped in their homes and vehicles. FOX's Eben Brown speaks to FOX's Bryan Llenas who is in New York City where the hourly rainfall record was broken just two weeks after being set. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Thursday, September 2nd, 2021. I'm Evan Brown. Hurricane Ida left Southern Louisiana in the

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dark, but even as a former tropical cyclone, she had enough rain to put much of the northeast U.S. underwater in places that just never have dealt with that before.

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The city can take about two inches of rain per hour.

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The city, according to the mayor, could not handle three inches of rain per hour, which is what we saw on Wednesday night.

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This is the Fox News rundown evening edition.

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Record rain fell not just in New York City and its suburbs, but also throughout New Jersey and Pennsylvania and Connecticut.

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It all came from what forecasters call the remnants of Ida, the very same weather system that

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days earlier as a category 4 hurricane hurricane laid waste to New Orleans and

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surrounding southeastern Louisiana. That area still has hundreds of thousands

1:19.8

without power but Ida's remnants had no wind left to blow in New York, though she still

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had more rain than it could handle.

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You know, this was unprecedented, historic, record-breaking, rainfall, and flash flooding the likes that New York City has

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never seen before.

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