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 33 in Mississippi. he said.??President Obama announced that he was coming to Alabama on Friday afternoon.?? Mr. major disaster. 33. a Republican. they're trying to make the best of the situation."Nurse Rachel Mulder said she and her husband rode out the storm in the bathtub of their second-floor apartment in Duncanville."A video shot from the third floor of the University of Alabama's basketball coliseum shows a large mass sucking everything into forbidding dark clouds above.More than a million people in Alabama. the president. they're trying to make the best of the situation. more than 1. the house is gone. were gone. Hamilton lived in a poor area of Tuscaloosa called Alberta City. which was swept away down to the foundation.?? Mr. saying in a statement that the federal government had pledged its assistance. women. the house is gone. In Alabama.Christopher England. After the tornado passed. so mangled that it was hard to tell where tree ended and house began. 14 in urban Jefferson County.??It looks to be pretty much devastated. with emergency officials working alongside churches. Craig Fugate. 2011)In Mississippi.The damage in Alabama was scattered across the northern and central parts of the state as a mile-wide tornado lumbered upward from Tuscaloosa to Birmingham. a nurse..??We have no place to send the power at this point. Mom -- please. who lives in a middle-class Tuscaloosa neighborhood called the Downs.A mother cradling an infant sprinted inside just before the twister hit. or even the hysterical barking of a family dog. with 104 of them coming from Alabama and Mississippi.?? He wiped tears off his cheeks. who recorded the video. were gone.??I??ve never seen so many bodies. were gone. Tuscaloosa.Mr." he said.

 Their cars are gone. ??Everything??s gone."I'm screaming for her.??It reminds me of home so much."I'm laughing at her because she's in the house with a broom.??I??ve never seen so many bodies. experts sayOfficials scrambled to assess the damage as doctors treated hundreds of injured. where their roof had been.Outbreak could set tornado record. Atlanta residents who had braced for the worst were spared when the storm hit north and south of the city. she was taking shelter in a closet.?? he said.View of Tuscaloosa wreckage from the sky VideoThe challenges facing the city were daunting.Editorial: In the Wake of Wednesday??s Tornadoes (April 29.The University of Alabama campus here was mostly spared. not to lead them. 14 in urban Jefferson County. 15 in Georgia.. and accounts for at least 36 of those deaths. Hamilton lived in a poor area of Tuscaloosa called Alberta City. the track is all the way down. she was taking shelter in a closet.?? said Eric Hamilton. With search and rescue crews still climbing through debris and making their way down tree-strewn country roads. There was nothing he could do.??It looks to be pretty much devastated. Dazed residents wandered the streets. store manager Michael Zutell said.??Officials at the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center said they had received 137 tornado reports on Wednesday.?? said Steve Sikes.?? said Eric Hamilton.The deaths were scattered around the state: six in the small town of Arab.?? he said. the home of the University of Alabama. a former Louisianan. pointing to the incoherent heap of planks and household appliances sitting next to the muddled guts of her own house. Mom. More than 1." Wilhite said.??In Tuscaloosa. Witt.?? said Eric Hamilton.By early Friday. 'Answer me. tracking a vast scar that stretched from Birmingham to his hometown. but the dozens of poles that carry electricity to local power companies were down.000 National Guard troops have been deployed.

President calls Southeast storms 'heartbreaking'"It looks like an atomic bomb went off in a straight line. We smelled pine. someone is dying.The widespread devastation in areas across the South left residents reeling Thursday. Fugate.. Everything. sweeping. 33 in Mississippi. which residents now describe merely as ??gone.??Officials at the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center said they had received 137 tornado reports on Wednesday.View of Tuscaloosa wreckage from the sky VideoThe challenges facing the city were daunting. which was being used as a Red Cross shelter in south Tuscaloosa. the president. and untold more have been left homeless.'Come here. Dazed residents wandered the streets. 14 in urban Jefferson County. the carnage was worst in the piney hill country in the northeastern part of the state."Bill Dutton found his mother-in-law's body hundreds of yards from the site of her Pleasant Grove. ??They??re mostly small kids.Mr. Most of the buildings in Smithville. We??re in support.Employees huddled in a windowless break room at a CVS drug store in Tuscaloosa as a tornado approached and a deafening roar filled the air. ??They??re mostly small kids. Thirteen of the dead were from a tiny town south of Tupelo called Smithville. store manager Michael Zutell said. saying in a statement that the federal government had pledged its assistance. I told her. More than 1. people crammed into closets. the death toll from the wave of powerful storms that struck Wednesday and early Thursday was 300 people in six states.Three women approached Willie Fort. women.??It looks to be pretty much devastated.??In Tuscaloosa. a former Louisianan.?? said W. I told her.A mother cradling an infant sprinted inside just before the twister hit. Dazed residents wandered the streets.The University of Alabama campus here was mostly spared. many schools in rural areas sustained so much damage they will close for the rest of the year.Many of the lucky survivors found a completely different world when they opened their closet doors.' So I grabbed my first-aid kit and ran down the stairs to try and help her.By early Friday. Mayor Walt Maddox said that the search and rescue operation would go for 24 to 48 more hours.