>> hill: good evening, katie is off tonight. the west is finally seeing a break in the clouds. but a week of storms has left a serious mess behind. runoff is still drowning over roads in some places while in other areas, residents are finding almost everything they own buried in mud. and it's all due to wave after wave of storms. a week of weather that dropped up to 26 inches of rain. in the mountains, some places saw more than 13 feet of snow. tonight, that system is losing strength as it heads east. though it is bringing some more snow to the rockies. bill whitaker is in hard-hit highland, california, tonight. bill, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, erica. the cost of cleaning up these storm-ravaged communities east of los angeles now estimated at $40 million. but local officials surveying this damage say they expect that figure to climb much higher. residents of the city of highland are now stuck at ground zero in a river of drying mud. this neighborhood was wiped out