Hurricane Ida kills at least 41 across Northeast - including nine in NYC: 'Historic weather event' paralyzes tri-state area as flash floods kill family of three in basement and turn streets to rivers

At least 41 people have been killed in the Northeast, including a family of three with a two-year-old boy who drowned in a New York City basement, after the tail-end of Hurricane Ida crept up on the tri-state area on Wednesday night bringing a month's worth of rain in less than a day, flooding homes while people slept and tearing up parts of New Jersey with tornadoes.

Eleven people were killed as water rushed into basement apartments in Brooklyn and Queens and people all over the city became stranded in flooded subway stations. MTA bus drivers were deployed to the stations to pick people up who were stranded and get them to safety.

The entire subway system was suspended and remains largely out of use on Thursday morning. AMTRAK has canceled services between Boston and Philadelphia and all of United Airlines' flights out of Newark were suspended on Thursday morning - some 300.

Eleven of the NYC victims died in flooded basement homes. One person was found in the backseat of a car on Thursday morning, at around 10am. They were in the backseat of the vehicle and had drifted from the Grand Central Parkway, NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea announced on Thursday. A tenth man died in a vehicle in upstate New York.

The total death toll in New York City rose to 12 on Thursday night.

Mingma Sherpa, 48, Ang Lama, 50, and their son two-year-old son, also called Ang (full name Lobsang) drowned in their home in Woodside, Queens. The New York City victims also include Roberto Bravo, 66; Phamatee Ramskriet, 43 and Khrishah Ramskriet, 22, 86-year-old Yue Lian Chen and Darlene Hsu, 48.

In total, 23 people died in New Jersey - nine were swept away in cars that became submerged in the water and five died in an apartment complex in Elizabeth. Three people from one family - a 72-year-old woman, her 71-year-old husband and their 38-year-old son - died along with their 33-year-old female neighbor in the Oakwood Plaza Apartments in New Jersey.

Three also died in the New York suburb of Westchester. A 19-year-old man died in Maryland when the Rock Creek River burst its banks and flooded nearby homes. Three people died in Pennsylvania.

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Austin Ferdock drinks a beer while floating in floodwater that continues to rise over the submerged Vine Street Expressway, Interstate 676, following a huge storm caused by the remnants of Hurricane Ida on September 2, 2021 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Residents canoe through floodwater in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida in Manville, NJ, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021

Roads are covered in floodwaters caused by the remnants of Tropical Storm Ida which brought drenching rain, flash floods and tornadoes to parts of the northeast in New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S., September 2, 2021

Train tracks are flooded in the Bronx following a night of heavy wind and rain from the remnants of Hurricane Ida on September 2, 2021 in New York City. Multiple fatalities have been reported in the region after the storm passed through, causing massive flooding and a widespread disruption of subway service

HOBOKEN, NJ - SEPTEMBER 2: A man falls off his bike into a flooded street the morning after the remnants of Hurricane Ida drenched the New York City and New Jersey area on September 2, 2021 in Hoboken, New Jersey

Multiple homes are destroyed after a Tornado hit Mullica Hill, New Jersey, yesterday. September 02 2021. The neighborhood is just south of Philadelphia, near the Pennsylvania/New Jersey border

Multiple homes are destroyed after a Tornado hit Mullica Hill, New Jersey, yesterday. September 02 2021

Homes damaged from the remnants of Hurricane Ida on Josephine Lane in Mullica Hill, New Jersey

Parked cars sit in flood waters behind an apartment building, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021, Mamaroneck, N.Y. A stunned U.S. East Coast woke up Thursday to a rising death toll

An abandon car sits in standing flood waters on a residential street, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021, Mamaroneck, New York

Roads in Bridgeport, Pennsylvania, are covered in floodwaters caused by the remnants of Tropical Storm Ida which brought drenching rain, flash floods and tornadoes to parts of the Northeast

A city underwater: 145th Street station on Wednesday night after Hurricane Ida brought nearly 6 inches of rain to New York City - 3.5inches in an hour - the single highest rainfall ever recorded. Nine people in the city died

Biden says 'extreme storms' prove Congress needs to pass $3.5T budget to deal with global warming

Democrats all the way up to President Biden are warning the worst is yet to come after Hurricane Ida flooded the Northeast as they push for costly climate change measures.

'This is yet another reminder that extreme storms and the climate crisis are here,' Biden said in an address on Hurricane Ida's devastation.

'Floods are going to happen with increasing frequency,' he continued. 'For us, this isn't about politics. Hurricane Ida didn't care if you were a Democrat or Republican. This destruction is everywhere.'

Biden said that when the Senate returns to Washington he would direct them to pass the $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation plan as part of his 'Build Back Better' agenda.

'This is yet another reminder that extreme storms and the climate crisis are here,' Biden said in an address on Hurricane Ida's devastation

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, N.Y., wrote on Twitter: 'Experiencing all this flooding in NYC right now and thinking about all the politicians who told me that pursuing a Green New Deal to adapt our nat'l infrastructure to climate change is "unrealistic" & "too expensive." As if doing too little is the responsible, adult thing to do?'

'That's why it's so imperative to pass the two bills, the infrastructure bill and the budget reconciliation bill.'

'Woe is us if we don't recognize that these changes are due to climate change. Woe is us if we don't do something soon,' he said.

The $3.5 trillion budget plan, focused on 'human infrastructure,' would allocate almost $200 billion to be distributed by the Energy Committee, another $67 billion for Environment and Public Works and $135 billion for Agriculture, with a focus on reducing carbon emissions. The plan furthers President Biden's agenda of a 50% reduction in emissions by 2030.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday night's storm was the 'biggest wakeup call' to act on climate change.

'A horrifying storm unlike anything we've ever seen before… The brutality of storms now. It is different. This is the biggest wake up call we could ever get. We're going to do a lot things differently and quickly.'

New York's new governor Kathy Hochul said that 'Because of climate change, unfortunately this is something we're going to have to deal with with great regularity.'

'Those saying we weren’t prepared for the climate crisis were right. Those saying Trump’s far-right appointees would overturn Roe v. Wade were right. Those saying Afghanistan would take decades and cost trillions of dollars were right. Trust organizers,' Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., wrote on Twitter, also referring to a new Texas law banning abortion after 6 weeks and the US withdrawal out of Afghanistan.