ASSOCIATED PRESS
Deborah Torres, right, talks to police officers standing outside her home in the Queens borough of New York where some of the occupants died, including a 2-year old child, when their basement apartment flooded today in New York. Torres lives in the first floor of the building The remnants of Hurricane Ida dumped historic rain over New York City, with several deaths linked to flooding in the region as basement apartments suddenly filled with water and freeways and boulevards turned into rivers, submerging cars.