FEMA is expected to perform a damage assessment, the next step toward a presidential disaster declaration that would authorize federal aid.

National attention focuses on Wisconsin's flooding. Volunteers from across the country are already on the ground helping. Now, FEMA inspectors will soon be in Wisconsin.

Officials with the Federal Emergency Management Agency are expected in Southeast Wisconsin this week to begin assessing the damage first-hand from last weekend's historic flooding as local and state officials ask for a federal disaster declaration.