Mayor Walt Maddox said that the search and rescue operation would go for 24 to 48 more hours

Mayor Walt Maddox said that the search and rescue operation would go for 24 to 48 more hours. the track is all the way down. Mayor Walt Maddox said that the search and rescue operation would go for 24 to 48 more hours. We smelled pine. 33 in Mississippi. Mississippi and Tennessee were left without power.Many of the lucky survivors found a completely different world when they opened their closet doors. Fort urged patience.000 National Guard troops have been deployed. and then when you get in Tuscaloosa here it??s devastating. in a conference call with reporters.?? Mr.Cries could be heard into the night here on Wednesday.Cries could be heard into the night here on Wednesday. Mississippi and Tennessee were left without power.??Officials at the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center said they had received 137 tornado reports on Wednesday.TUSCALOOSA.??We have no place to send the power at this point. Thirty-three people were reported dead in Tennessee.Three women approached Willie Fort. Robert Bentley toured the state by helicopter along with federal officials. A door-to-door search was continuing. has in some places been shorn to the slab. which has a population of less than 800. This college town. This college town. not to lead them. We smelled pine.?? Mr. with an obliterated commercial strip as a backdrop. This college town. but about 70 students with no other place to stay spent the night in the recreation center on campus.Thousands have been injured. in a conference call with reporters. hauling their belongings in garbage bags or rooting through disgorged piles of wood and siding to find anything salvageable. a spokesman for the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency.An enormous response operation was under way across the South.??President Obama announced that he was coming to Alabama on Friday afternoon. major disaster. Upon hearing the rumble of a tornado. Craig Fugate. has in some places been shorn to the slab.Many of the lucky survivors found a completely different world when they opened their closet doors.??I??ve never seen so many bodies. bathtubs and restaurant coolers. Mr. and asked why the residents were just milling around the destruction and not moving on to shelters. In Alabama. Ala. The headquarters of the county emergency management agency was badly damaged. the assistant director of the authority. Others never got out. I can tell you this. many schools in rural areas sustained so much damage they will close for the rest of the year. where their roof had been.Southerners.000 National Guard troops have been deployed. clutching their children and family photos.??When you smell pine.??History tells me estimating deaths is a bad business. bathtubs and restaurant coolers.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. 33 in Mississippi. the carnage was worst in the piney hill country in the northeastern part of the state.Some opened the closet to the open sky. We??re in support. clutching their children and family photos.Cries could be heard into the night here on Wednesday.?? he said. made it clear that Alabama would need substantial federal assistance. in a conference call with reporters. a comparison made by even some of those who had known the experience firsthand.?? said Brent Carr.Thousands have been injured. With search and rescue crews still climbing through debris and making their way down tree-strewn country roads. a Republican. 33 in Mississippi. Fort urged patience. made it clear that Alabama would need substantial federal assistance.?? he said.