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>> Following historic
flooding in southeast

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Wisconsin, Milwaukee
County's latest estimates

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on damage to public
infrastructure has reached

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at least $34 million, a
figure that doesn't include

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individual property loss.
The Federal Emergency

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Management Agency arrived
this week to help the state

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with a preliminary damage
assessment, the first step

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toward potential financial
assistance.

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>> Hi, I'm with FEMA.
>> FEMA is going door to

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door in southeast Wisconsin
over the next several days

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looking to understand the
magnitude of damage caused

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by recent record flooding.
>> Any rain water in your

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basement?
>> Our teams will go

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wherever the state and the
county requests that we go.

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We will see as much damage
as they ask us to see. We

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have four teams in
Milwaukee County, one in

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Waukesha County and one in
Washington County.

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>> Accompanied by local
officials, their objective

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is to ask questions and
collect information.

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>> Prior to this, we've
been working to coordinate

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all the information
reports so that we could

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give that picture to whim
and to the FEMA

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representatives of the
damage that we've

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experienced in the
community.

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>> 211 has been flooded
with thousands of daily

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calls from residents
reporting their losses.

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>> Flooded basements,
foundational damage. A lot

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of people with lost
possessions and couches and

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furniture and things like
that. So a lot of folks

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here are hurting.
>> You know, I'm disabled,

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I need help.
>> People like Tyrone

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Roberts.
>> We never had this much

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trash on our block. Now the
garbage man won't even come

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down the street, so we just
got to deal with it and do

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the most as we can as a
community.

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officials recommend calling
two, one, one.

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>> Two, and one can take
that damage information,

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residents with services in
their area that can help

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them.
>> But large scale aid is

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still a ways off.
>> We're really just trying

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to get a snapshot, a
representative sample of

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what has happened across
the county.

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step in the process toward
getting a major disaster

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declaration. So here we are
in the beginning phase of

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here, FEMA will make the
president. The president