Good morning and welcome to Morning Joe. Coming up on 6 o'clock in the morning at the United States Capitol at the end of a long week. It is Friday, September 3rd on our way into the Labor Day weekend. I'm Willie Geist. Joe and Mika will be back next week. We begin with the historic and deadly flooding across the northeast in the wake of Hurricane Ida.

The storm blamed for at least 42 deaths now in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut.

The toll climbs even higher to 58 when you factor in the weather-related fatalities in states across the south where the storm first made landfall. New York City Mayor Bill

de Blasio says at least 13 people died in flooding incidents. 23 people were killed in the state

of New Jersey. In Connecticut, a state trooper, Sergeant Brian Moll, died after his cruiser was swept

away in floodwaters.

NBC News correspondent Stephanie Gosk has more on the impact of this storm.

Half the town is currently underwater.

In the light of day, the storm damage on display.

The danger far from over.

Water kept rising, the stranded rescued by helicopter.

In the Maranek, New York, boats carried them to safety.

We lost everything, you know.

Similar scenes in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Look at that tornado!

Where tornadoes also touched down.

This neighborhood outside Philadelphia ripped apart.

Ida was no longer a hurricane when it hit the

northeast, but it was no less a punishing storm. Dropping so much rain so quickly, New York City

was overwhelmed. More than three inches in Central Park and just one hour, smashing the previous

record. Waterfalls gushed into subway tunnels.

In Queens, passengers had to jump on their seats, the bus driving through a river that used to be a street.

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