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Necessities, electricity, sewer, water, medical, cell phones, everything is down. witnesses say debris scattered everywhere. boats, refrigerators, washers and dryers. local officials say the overseas highway which connects the islands needs repair. from all that flooding damage. crews also need to inspect the bridges. there are 40 of them. they don't yet know whether a lot of. search and rescue's racing to get help to the victims. the storm made landfall in the spot we just saw, cudjoe key, category 4 with maximum sustained winds of 130 miles an hour. witnesses say many homes are destroyed, as...

Water line, it was about up to here? >> yeah. we had about almost four feet of water. >> let's take a look inside this home. this would have been your living room and dining room. >> yeah, we already ripped out sheet rock, you have to rip it out to try to dry. >> you can smell that mold and water here. not much left in here, michael. >> no. it's gone. i mean, we flooded before, but we measured it by inches, not by feet. >> right. this would be the kitchen. >> this was the kitchen. >> this was the kitchen. you showed me before just to give you an idea the fact that there's still water hanging a...

Up? >> reporter: good morning alex. people are surprisingly resilient and working hard to get their lives back to normal. you've got to image every street in this area had a pile of debris five or six feet high. to you and i this looks like sheet rock and carpet. but to them this looks like their home. when they look at this, they see pieces of clothing. they see watches, shoes, prescriptions. they see life as it was before harvey literally sitting in their front yard. as i said, this is not singular, this entire street, all the way down, every house has tons of debris that has to be cleaned u...

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 the front lawns steadily grow higher. ruined sheet rock c...

We provide natural gas and oil refinery, anywhere from a third to almost 50% of the total production of the country. so that's going to impact if the refineries are down four, five days. i also saw an estimate, jackie, the storm by a company of core logics that does analysis in property values, just in property values $40 billion in damage taking the number of homes and homes damaged by floods, because if you get, jackie, i hope you've never had a home that's flooded. once you get flooding above the sheet rock, it is an expensive item. you have to tear everything down out of sheetrock and redo...