Videos show New York, New Jersey under water as Hurricane Henri bears down

Category 1 Hurricane Henri unleashed torrential rain on the Northeast ahead of its expected landfall later today.

The shocking scenes all happened before Hurricane Henri is expected to make landfall at around midday.

A National Hurricane Center update on Hurricane Henri issued late on Saturday read:"Heavy rainfall may lead to considerable flash, urban, and small stream flooding, along with the potential for widespread minor to isolated moderate river flooding over portions of Long Island, New England, eastern New York and New Jersey."

Speaking during a Saturday press briefing about Hurricane Henri, De Blasio said:"Right now, from what we're hearing, the real impacts are tomorrow but we want to start warning people now, we want you to make your plans the right way, to really minimize activity tomorrow to the maximum extent possible.

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