The National Weather Service released a flood watch at 2:08 a.m. on Tuesday valid from 2 p.m. until Wednesday 2 a.m. for Passaic, Hudson, Bergen, Essex and Union counties.

At least 80 people are dead and many more are missing in Texas in the wake of torrential rains and resulting flooding. By far the greatest number of fatalities occurred in Kerr County, where 68 people are believed to be dead,

Local officials warned the number of dead will likely rise and were due to give an update on Sunday morning, as search and rescue teams raced to find 27 girls missing from a camp near the Guadalupe River,