More than 100,000 residents have been ordered to move away from a flood-swollen river in Pennsylvania as the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee dumped more rain across the US north east.

Up to 200,000 people in the Wilkes-Barre area of Pennsylvania were ordered to evacuate their homes because of rising water on the Susquehanna River, swelled by a record-breaking deluge that has killed at least 12 people across the US North-East.