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Is still underwater after more than 4 feet of rain from hurricane harvey. many residents spent the holiday on the grim task of trying to recover what is left of their homes and property. we have just received word that the death toll has climbed to at least 60. let's begin the coverage with steve harrigan. >> mike, it might not look like it, but in many neighborhoods like this one, things are actually getting better. many in texas are already coping with their losses. 30 miles north of houston, each house looks the same. frame intact but everything inside destroyed by the water. the piles on t...

People tear out sheet rock and carpet and churches all across the community are doing that. we're working hard to get back to a new normal, but it's going to be a while and people will have to be patient as they go through this process. 200000-300,000 homes need to be repaired. our biggest problems right now, beaumont where water will be out for weeks and power is out. yesterday we had 400 roads closed and the whole state affective of the storm. we're down to about a hundred today, so were making an improvement quickly. >> jon: i know you have thousands of people from other states and other pa...

Start to take up the carpet and sheet rock. >> attempting to ease words, congress is expected to vote wednesday on trump's request for nearly $8 billion in aid, an amount texas governor reg abbett warned will not meet the needs. >> this will cost well over $120 billion. >> a similar tone heard from fema administrator brock long on funding from his agencies. >> it's not going to be enough to make anyone hold. >> other forms of help arriving in texas. >> sending packages, gift cards, kids close. i have never met these people. i don't know them. >> the number of houses estimated to be damaged, 30...

The face of the volunteers who are moving from rescue and boats to rescue with hammers and nails and ripping out sheet rock, but a can-do attitude by the people who have been impacted. obviously, i so this on fox last week from a tale of two cities, it's the worst of times in the best of times. make no mistake, people are suffering, but i've never seen a spirit -- texas has a great spirit. a can-do spirit, a come and take it spirit and relook at the storm of harvey as it's gone and said you didn't take anything from us, he may have set us back for a while, but will be bigger and better and str...

Start to take up the carpet and sheet rock. >> attempting to ease words, congress is expected to vote wednesday on trump's request for nearly $8 billion in aid, an amount texas governor reg abbett warned will not meet the needs. >> this will cost well over $120 billion. >> a similar tone heard from fema administrator brock long on funding from his agencies. >> it's not going to be enough to make anyone hold. >> other forms of help arriving in texas. >> sending packages, gift cards, kids close. i have never met these people. i don't know them. >> the number of houses estimated to be damaged, 30...