>> Following historic flooding in southeast
Wisconsin, Milwaukee County's latest estimates
on damage to public infrastructure has reached
at least $34 million, a figure that doesn't include
individual property loss. The Federal Emergency
Management Agency arrived this week to help the state
with a preliminary damage assessment, the first step
toward potential financial assistance.
>> Hi, I'm with FEMA. >> FEMA is going door to
door in southeast Wisconsin over the next several days
looking to understand the magnitude of damage caused
by recent record flooding. >> Any rain water in your
basement? >> Our teams will go
wherever the state and the county requests that we go.
We will see as much damage as they ask us to see. We
have four teams in Milwaukee County, one in
Waukesha County and one in Washington County.
>> Accompanied by local officials, their objective
is to ask questions and collect information.
>> Prior to this, we've been working to coordinate
all the information reports so that we could
give that picture to whim and to the FEMA
representatives of the damage that we've
experienced in the community.
>> 211 has been flooded with thousands of daily
calls from residents reporting their losses.
>> Flooded basements, foundational damage. A lot
of people with lost possessions and couches and
furniture and things like that. So a lot of folks
here are hurting. >> You know, I'm disabled,
I need help. >> People like Tyrone
Roberts. >> We never had this much
trash on our block. Now the garbage man won't even come
down the street, so we just got to deal with it and do
the most as we can as a community.
officials recommend calling two, one, one.
>> Two, and one can take that damage information,
residents with services in their area that can help
them. >> But large scale aid is
still a ways off. >> We're really just trying
to get a snapshot, a representative sample of
what has happened across the county.
step in the process toward getting a major disaster
declaration. So here we are in the beginning phase of
here, FEMA will make the president. The president