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No injuries after roof collapses at New Jersey BJ's Wholesale Club due to heavy rain, flash flooding

Flash [music] floods in New Jersey left streets underwater after the weekend brought thunderstorms and relentless rain. And then check this out. The weather conditions even caused the roof to partially collapse at a wholesale club less than 60 miles away from New York City.

A few dozen people were in the store at the time, but miraculously no one was hurt.

So, let's go live now to CBS News correspondent Lana Zak in the town of Oakhurst.

Lana, good evening.

Walk us through what happened and how everyone was able to escape.

The video is remarkable.

You see people running, but miraculously no one was hurt.

>> Isn't that incredible, Juliet?

Yeah, I spoke with one person who was inside with his wife, Jim.

He tells me that they were shopping.

It seemed like an ordinary day.

His wife actually had been in that bakery section just moments before that roof collapsed.

They saw a leak elsewhere in the building.

Um, and they heard a loud crack and then the sound of water rushing.

Jim said to her, "We got to get out of here."

They rushed out. All 27 people, remarkably no major injuries

given what we saw on that video.

Two people actually were trapped momentarily underneath that debris.

They were able to free themselves. But people around here, whether at the BJ's or throughout

this area as I've spoken with lots of different people who are cleaning up and still preparing for additional rain as you can see.

They are have just been surprised by how quickly this rain came upon residents of New York and New Jersey and the number of roads that have been flooded out.

Um, it's And it's not done yet, Juliet.

>> Yeah, it happened so quickly. I'm so glad that they were able to run ahead of all of the damage that we saw in that video.

Lana, what other effects have we seen from this extreme weather this week?

>> Yeah, it was it started off uh so hot and that heat dome that stood on top of much of the United States, the Midwest, the the um Pacific uh the sorry, the the Mid-Atlantic region. Um that finally burst and this is the result of this heavy rain.

Meanwhile, out there on the west in such stark contrast, there continues to be those dry conditions.

Wildfires burning in Colorado, several towns there already evacuated.

Uh we've seen people who have had uh injuries from heat.

We have seen people who have been hit by lightning actually in Florida, down in Fort Myers Beach.

Um

some of the rip tides that have been fatal um across this country.

So, it is

important to reiterate to our viewers that these weather conditions should be taken seriously.

Indeed, over 60 million Americans are still under flood watches.

Mostly concentrated here in the um in the uh Atlantic Mid-Atlantic region, but the most severe area is expected to be between New York City and Boston overnight into tomorrow.

>> All right.

>> Extreme conditions all over, Lana.

>> All right, Lana, thank you.