Watch: Severe storms slam the Northeast

Why am I taking pictures of myself always like I'm exhausted. I'm caught in a rainstorm. I might be-- MAN 2: Oh yeah, check it out. Oh, yeah, look at the rotation in that thing. Wow. MAN 3: I'm in a tornado. Oh my fucking God! Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God! I'm still in it. Oh my God! Oh my God! Holy-moly! Where'd it go? I knew it was coming! I knew it! I knew it! I so knew it! Oh my God! COMMENTATOR 1: --as South Carolina-- should tell you of North Carolina. So they do kind of-- COMMENTATOR 2: Who get the personal fouls. COMMENTATOR 1: Yeah, they went down as personal foul. So they are a big-- so I would have given more technical fouls, still of equal gravity so they cancel out. It's South Carolina's ball at the point of interruption. Technical foul each side also counts as a personal foul. MAN 4: Like, I'm literally stuck in the car. Look at this [MUTED]. Like, bro! I've got on my Crocs. I got this little dumb [MUTED] umbrella. Oh [MUTED], man. This rain is crazy. Oh, let me turn the windshield wiper. Look at this [MUTED]. Hold on. Look at this [MUTED]. Look at this [MUTED]. Look at these [MUTED]. Look at these [MUTED]. Look at these [MUTED]. Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Piece of [MUTED]. Yo, this is crazy! The city of Dover no better. Look at this [MUTED]. Are you saying they still ain't put a storm drain? Man. OG said they've been knowing that about 20 years. That's crazy, bro. Bro, like, they can put a storm drain in here, bro. Got a bucket, though. It's bad. Oh, look at that! Because I think he drove through this on, and it might have messed something up to where as though he stopped. [INDISTINCT SPEECH] That's wild, bro. Flood on West Street between Fulton and Cecil. Crazy, man. Look at DJ! Look at DJ. Hey, go get him some towels so he can wipe his toes. Go get me some towels so he can wipe his toes off! [LAUGHS] Bro, you might as make a run for it. High step. [EXCLAMATION] MAN 4: You got to high step. High step like a football-- oh, man! [LAUGHS] Literally God. Hey, listen, man, we got to advocate to the city because this is ridiculous. Look at this! Look at this! Look! Like, come on, man. Y'all can't put some extra storm drains? Like, oh! No! The car that just drove by now-- oh! No bridge car is going to die in the water! [MUTED] dog, this van is done. Bro said he stuck. His car literally just-- oh my God, bro. Because of the water? It's because of the water? MAN 5: Oh, God, I got to move-- MAN 4: We got to sue the city of Dover. Yeah, we you got move that drain, bro, like ASAP, bro. I don't think this van going to be able to move, bro. Yeah, pour them drain-- guys. MAN 5: Hold on, boy. MAN 4: You might as well come out the shoe-- come out the-- you might as well come out the 1987 George Washington Little Pepper Steppers. [LAUGHS] Bro got the lift of George Washington. [LAUGHS] Hey, yo. Nah, this water does not look too clean at all, shorty. Go ahead. Make a run for it. Go! Ah! MAN 6: What? What?

Take a look at this footage. A tornado ripping across a beach outside of New York City yesterday, but the damage was enough for Nassau County officials to declare a state of emergency. And our Jared Ochacher joins us now. He's in Atlantic Beach, New York, the site of that tornado. Jared, good morning. What's the scene like there now? Good morning, Errol. This is a rare sight in New York and something I've certainly never seen before, tornado damage along the beach. Right behind me, you can see cabanas that have been torn to shreds and people's personal belongings strewn all over the place.

That is a tornado, and oh my God, it is spinning around.

Dangerous storms hammered the East Coast yesterday, churning up this waterspout just east of New York City. Witnesses reported it came onshore, turning into a tornado.

Another tornado coming in. Respond to the Sun and Surf Beach Club.

It destroyed rows of cabanas at this beach club on Long Island, leaving behind a mess of splintered wooden beams and lawn chairs.

It was over in, like, seconds. That was it. By the time I kind of opened my eyes, it felt like everything was gone. Like, the roof was gone. Everything outside was a mess.

Matthew Stark says his family have been coming to the Sun and Surf Beach Club for decades.

My cousins just brought down their newborn. So that's another generation able to see the beach club, and now it's gone.

The fire department estimates at least a hundred people were there when the storm hit, but nobody was seriously injured. Just by the grace of luck that a lot of people weren't hurt here because this beach club is a very popular place here in the summer.

The same storm flooded streets in Brooklyn and northern New Jersey, leaving cars stuck in rising water, and also flooded subway stations in New York City. The severe weather stretched south to Dover, Delaware, where a confirmed twister ripped the roofs off motels, took down power lines, and littered streets with debris. When it started raining, we started seeing pieces of buildings flying, and then we ran in the bathroom because we were scared.

Another suspected tornado in southern Pennsylvania tore the wall of this building down and ripped apart the roof of this high school. The beach club is closed in the meantime while workers begin to clean up the mess. And this is the first tornado that the area has seen in about five years, I want to bring in now meteorologist Jessica Burch. Jess, tornadoes like this are rare in this part of the country. Extremely rare, but when you were watching these storms grow yesterday just across the Midwest, eventually over to the Northeast, you knew there was going to be some sort of damage, whether it's from heavy amounts of rain, which we saw flash flood warnings yesterday, or damaging winds and, of course, even some tornadic activity. So as you take a look at the storm reports just from the past 24 hours, notice all of those reports across this region, from the Ohio Valley stretched over into the Northeast. Of course, there were those confirmed tornadoes down into Delaware, up into New York. It started as a waterspout and moved its way inland, and that's what allowed for it to be considered a tornado. But we're continuing to track that cold front as it tracks offshore today close to the Atlantic, bringing in a lot of active weather now down to the south, closer to the Carolinas, Virginia, and all the way off into the Mississippi. You see all those orange highlights right there. Those are active severe thunderstorm warnings issued by the National Weather Service. We are seeing active extreme weather right now all across that region, and we're starting to see some of those similar conditions up into the Chicago region and over into Wisconsin right now. So into the evening hours tonight-- this is around the 6 o'clock hour tonight-- we have major thunderstorms sweeping across the Carolinas up into Virginia. We could see damaging hail, of course, lightning and thunder. And then on top of that, we can also gear up for heavy amounts of rain with some of those larger thunderstorm cells. That pushes off shore into the overnight hours tonight, slowly tracking its way up north near New York, so we could see some more afternoon showers tomorrow as we head into our Saturday forecast across the Northeast region. That area of low pressure, working in a counterclockwise direction, continues to wring out more of that active weather into our Monday forecast of next week. So we're not out of the clear just yet, but from now into the next three days, we could see an additional 3 to 5 inches of rain, meaning localized flooding and ponding is definitely possible as those thunderstorms track off shore and move to the north. Anywhere up to around 1 to 2 inches off into the Appalachian area.