officials haven t provided enough disaster relief to cover the rebuilding costs either. we re third page news. reporter: the mayor says the city has a $2 million yearly budget and needs $17 million to repair the damaged infrastructure. and the school system is lacking about $25 million to rebuild two destroyed schools. the mayor says without the disaster aid, he might only be able to afford gravel roads in the destroyed neighborhoods. when you tell folks here in town they might drive on gravel roads in these neighborhoods. i haven t told them yet. they re going to understand. they re going to have to understand. reporter: while the politicians haggle, the mayor and his neighbors sit and wait. fema says it has already provided a great deal of support, including 70% of the cleanup and individual residents who have applied for help. but texas governor rick perry says he will appeal this latest
disaster aid, he might only be able to afford gravelled roads in the destroyed neighborhoods. so when you tell folks they might be driving on gravelled roads i haven t told them yet. but we ll see. they ll understand. they will have to understand. reporter: while the politicians haggle, the mayor and his neighbors sit and wait. now, carol, fema says that it has already paid out about $7 million to residents who have applied for help, individual residents, swes as well as appr 75% of the debris removal. but governor perry says he will appeal the decision. in the meantime, folks sit and wait. as one city official told me, kneel like they have two strikes against them, but still at the plate batting away. and another community may be grappling with this very problem. we ll let you go from west. we do have breaking news to tell
they have to understand it. reporter: while the politicians haggle, the mayor and his neighbors sit and wait. ed, cnn, west, texas. it will be fbi director robert muller s turn to sit in the hot seat. he ll be questioned about the sweeping data mining and surveillance operations. yesterday, general keith alexander says he believes they are saving lives uncovering dozens of terrorist attacks. the man who blew the lid off the surveillance said the u.s. has been hacking foreign computers for years with thousands of the targets in china. snowden is vowing to fight extradition saying he would rather stay in hong kong to take on the united states government in court. michael morrell retiring