About 25 million Americans are under a state of emergency as torrential rain and thunderstorms batter the Northeast.
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has declared a statewide emergency and issued a flash flood watch for the entire state, home to nearly 10 million people.
In neighboring New York, Governor Kathy Hochul issued a similar alert covering some of the state’s most densely populated counties, approximately 15 million New Yorkers. The warning includes all five boroughs of New York City.
Cars along the Clearview Expressway in Queens, New York, were submerged in waters as the rain started to fall Thursday afternoon.
Cars submerged in floodwaters in Queens
