Ida-driven rain, flooding claim over 40 lives in U.S. Northeast

A resident clears waterlogged belongings outside a house, in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York, the United States, Sept. 3, 2021. Torrential rains, floods and tornadoes from storm Ida remnants claimed more than 40 lives across the northeast of the United States on Wednesday and Thursday. (Xinhua/Wang Ying)