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Of water. we're trying to move from place to place to get a good survey of the damage here. now, the first thing you'll notice is there's a lot of boats in this area. looking back there, a little cluster of islands where the houses are. this is where people have their boats outside of the marina. if we pan over more, you'll be able to see, these boats have been tossed along the shoreline. boats that were on their moring here. this is the power of water. to give you the idea, we can keep going around and i want to show you where the water line was. it is easy to find. you'll see the debris line...

History. a horrible event commemorated by this poignant statue on the galveston seawall. ♪ when the storm passed, survivors emerged to a galveston they did not recognize. city streets filled with mountains of rubble. >> the debris from the houses and properties accumulated during the course of the storm. it became a wall of debris that protected the northern part of the island from the rest of the storm and water. we know that that debris line extended for maybe 2 miles and in some places, it was his two stories heights. >> jon: people dug through the rubble -- really searching for survivors...

Whatever, kyle. merry christmas in case i don't see you. >> happy holidays. piles of debris line the streets and are hit hard by superstorm sandy. more than one month after it struck. but funding could soon be on the way to help get things back to normal. now more from washington. >> in a letter to congress, the white house has requested $60.4 billion to help all states affected by superstorm sandy. the white house says these are funds necessary to finance a needed recovery effort and to help the region prepare for future challengeds including future -- challenges including future storms and...

So we have looped the video here and you can see in the dark of night, and there goes the explosion at the levee. the weather channel's mike seidel has the latest from metropolis, illinois. >> reporter: good afternoon, contessa. the reason the army corps did that last night was to bring the water level down on the ohio river and thus lower the pressure against that levee and save that town of 3,000. and it has worked, as you mentioned. the levee there goes up to 64 feet. the water last night, an all time crest, beating out the 1937 crest by more than two feet at just under 62 feet. it still, t...

Inland but you really start to see the signs of this tsunami. you can see how high the water and the debris line here especially against the white wall of the school and the power of the tsunami, the doors of the school are completely blown off and look down the hallway. that's a car. 450 student, teachers and workers were in the school when the tsunami warning came. many managed to escape. but the japanese military says they pulled bodies from the school. the residents of futaki started returning home and carried what they could to evacuation centers. little gas, long lines wrapped around the...