>> 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