reporter: well, definitely we ve seen a lot of solidarity and community volunteers pitching in to recovery effort. the operation there is massive. i mean, you see volunteer farmers with their backhoes trying to clear the area operating alongside armored recovery vehicles with the military. to be honest, it looks like a war zone. the kind of thing you would expect to see there. it s an incredible operation. the problem is that all along the river there are little towns and villages just like shoal. we re a little way down the river, and there are several bridges along here that usually connect it to the other communities here. all of the bridges have either been washed out or unusable. you can see behind me that excavator is trying to clear the debris from the partially collapsed bridge. there s only one bridge in this area that connects the towns. this is a critical part of getting a recovery is getting
climate change. reporter: these farm houses have stood for more than a century. now all but destroyed. extreme rainfall is what turned this river into a raging tornl, engulfing the small village. now farm yard backhoes clear away the rubble. the german chancellor lank america they will has been quick to blame the climate crisis for this catastrophe. on sunday she met with survivors, promising to release more financial aid. i have to say it is a surreal situation. it is shocking, she said. i can almost stay german language does not have the words for this kind of devastation. flood warning systems are coming under scrutiny but no one could have predicted the scale and speed of this disaster says the mayor. i think the flood protection systems would not have helped,
thank you for having me. i really appreciate it. so this hit just before midnight. i can see behind you just some of what the storm has left behind. what are you seeing as the light of day has come and the light of day, what are you seeing now in your city? there s a lot of destruction. we were even seeing it even with no lights and power lines down. you could still see the destruction last night, even. and a lot of trees down, power lines, roofs blown off buildings. windows out. cars on their side, cars moved around. things upside down. walls out. so things like that. just a lot of destruction basically and a lot of trees everywhere. tree limbs. they re using backhoes to get trees out of streets. it s fairly extensive. yeah. the way some folks have been describing it, feeling like an earthquake was hitting. we have seen 18-wheelers flopped over on their sides, just to show the sheer power of the
lived. out in the street it was a zoo. reporter: reporters like jeff proctor were staked out for three days while men with jackhammers and backhoes began tearing up the garage floor. we continue to follow breaking news right now. reporter: if you lived in albuquerque, you would have to wear earplugs not to hear about it. we just spoke to the police chief and he is here looking for the remains of michael snyder. reporter: a longtime friend of ellen s was at work when the news broke. i believed it. reporter: you believed he left her and was in phoenix? yeah. reporter: the job of finding mike snyder s remains proved difficult. the garage floor was a solid foot of steel reinforced concrete. police say they will resume digging tomorrow.
a hoot about the effects of climate change though. i don t believe that climate change i think it s nonsense they ve been having hurricanes for years. i don t think that s really a climate change issue below sea level that s probably a good option but you know if they were to done that and they have to deal with the consequences. american bravado coral is a plant city that went straight from the drawing board to the waterfront it s attraction affordable housing and low taxes housing estate for one hundred eighty sounds and sun worshippers. the regular hurricanes the terror across the region don t put prospective buyers off despite all the warning signs construction here continues apace. form a county commissioner a judicial notice what a car looked like before the bulldozers and backhoes arrived. limited or lack of