Appreciate you, Koop.

I am Chris Cuomo and welcome to Primetime.

Tonight we're gonna show you the unimaginable scenarios

that are still unfolding all across New York,

New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland,

Connecticut and Virginia.

Search and rescue missions are gonna go on through the night.

There is a lot that is still not known.

Once again, though, here's what we do know.

The storm that followed the one

that we were all worried about,

hit harder than expected.

Of course, we were all waiting for Henri in the Northeast, right?

And it barely came in any real way.

And then a lot of people apparently slept on Ida

making its way to the Northeast and it drowned us.

Close to 50 dead, still counting, still early numbers.

That's in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic states.

So the question becomes why?

Too much, too soon.

So much rain, record rainfall in many places

in a compressed period of just a few hours, for example,

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