Murphy visits flooded Passaic County as river continues to rise
Residents in one section of Little Falls are bracing for severe flooding as the Passaic River continues rising after Tuesday's storm.
Christina Fan joined CBS News New York as a general assignment reporter in spring of 2019.
She has provided extensive coverage of the coronavirus pandemic's impact on Asian Americans, from the initial outbreak in Wuhan, China to the rise of COVID-related hate crimes locally. Following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, she covered the ensuing protests for weeks as demonstrators called for police and criminal justice reform in New York City.
Before joining WCBS, Christina spent three years at the ABC O&O in Fresno, California. She traveled across the state reporting on record-breaking wildfires, the Oroville dam crisis, as well as President Barack Obama's visit to Yosemite. Her career started at WOWK-TV in Charleston, West Virginia, where she shot, wrote and edited all her stories.
Christina graduated from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism with dual majors in Broadcast Journalism and International Studies. She is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and loves to travel. So far she's visited 24 countries across five continents.
Christina is proud to be from Central Jersey, where her parents still live. She is thrilled to be back home and visits her family every week, where she enjoys eating her mom's home-cooked meals and then tries burning off the calories by playing tennis. Christina is a diehard fan of Novak Djokovic.
Residents in one section of Little Falls are bracing for severe flooding as the Passaic River continues rising after Tuesday's storm.
There's an ongoing battle over who's on the hook for repairs.
Firefighters said drivers were caught off guard Tuesday night when the parkway started to flood. They had to deploy their scuba team, along with a boat, to rescue people.
The state of emergency is in effect across all of the Garden State's 21 counties.
The crash happened just before 1 a.m. near the corner of Stockholm Street and Irving Avenue in Bushwick.
Members of a mosque are devastated after their imam was shot and killed Wednesday.
The U.S. Geological Survey said an earthquake measuring 1.7 magnitude was reported in Queens early Tuesday.
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People from all over the world came together to reflect on the past year and look ahead to a new one.
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Business owners say, without a doubt, December 23 is their busiest day of the year, with customers coming as far from eastern Connecticut, Pennsylvania and South Jersey.
Early Wednesday morning, trucks could be seen rescuing people from homes along the Passaic River in Paterson.
Flooding was so pervasive across the town on Monday, it was hard to tell where Bound Brook ended and roads began.
Neighbors trying to escape said smoke from the fire was so thick it seemed like they were running into darkness.