Officials in Nashville are trying to get a complete sense of the damage after weekend storms across Tennessee flooded parts of the city, including some areas downtown.
Police and firefighters are going door to door in some neighborhoods, and Mayor Karl Dean says city workers are feeling out the full extent of the damage. Dean says that’s hard because some areas are still underwater.
“I mean we’re doing the assessment now of property all over the county, they’re working really hard, we have lots of teams, I think 45 teams out right now. And I think it’s safe to say that the damage that we’re looking at will easily exceed a billion dollars, but I can’t give you the details about specific number of jobs lost yet.”
While President Obama has declared the area a federal disaster area, Dean says it’s too soon for details about what sort of aid will follow.
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