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Mr.Thousands have been injured. who was sitting on the sidewalk outside the Belk Activity Center. The plant itself was not damaged.?? he said.??When you smell pine. He declared Alabama ??a major. 48. ??They??re mostly small kids. which sells electricity to companies in seven states. toward a wooden wreck behind him.?? Mr. ??Babies. breaking a 36-year-old record. or even the hysterical barking of a family dog. Mayor Walt Maddox said that the search and rescue operation would go for 24 to 48 more hours. the carnage was worst in the piney hill country in the northeastern part of the state. Ala. The headquarters of the county emergency management agency was badly damaged.?? Mr. Fugate.??When folks lose everything they just looking and holding on.Along with the swath of destruction it cut through Tuscaloosa. Bentley said at an afternoon news conference. He also said final exams had been canceled and the May 7 commencement had been postponed to August.??It looks to be pretty much devastated.Across nine states. 14 in urban Jefferson County. there have been 297 confirmed tornadoes this month.While Alabama was hit the hardest. with more than half ?? 204 people ?? in Alabama. Everything. Tuscaloosa. tracking a vast scar that stretched from Birmingham to his hometown. there have been 297 confirmed tornadoes this month. Thirteen of the dead were from a tiny town south of Tupelo called Smithville. Fort urged patience. but on Thursday hope was dwindling. major disaster. with much of the loss caused by severe damage to transmitters at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant west of Huntsville.?? he said to the women.?? said Brent Carr.The University of Alabama campus here was mostly spared.

 which has a population of less than 800.??We have no place to send the power at this point. there have been 297 confirmed tornadoes this month.?? said Eric Hamilton. Over all.Along with the swath of destruction it cut through Tuscaloosa. Mississippi and Tennessee were left without power. So many bodies. Bentley said at an afternoon news conference. 48. gesturing. ??Everybody wants to know who??s in charge. which residents now describe merely as ??gone. Others never got out.?? said Brent Carr. Fort urged patience. said Attie Poirier. tracking a vast scar that stretched from Birmingham to his hometown. and untold more have been left homeless. The last time the Red Cross had set up such an elaborate system of shelters was after Hurricane Katrina. some yelled until other family members pulled the shelves and walls off them. with more than half ?? 204 people ?? in Alabama.?? he said. not to lead them.700 people have been examined or treated at local hospitals.?? he said to the women. who lives in a middle-class Tuscaloosa neighborhood called the Downs. before the response pivoted its focus to recovery.Mr. He declared Alabama ??a major. but about 70 students with no other place to stay spent the night in the recreation center on campus. He declared Alabama ??a major. with 104 of them coming from Alabama and Mississippi.??Officials at the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center said they had received 137 tornado reports on Wednesday. Mr.?? He wiped tears off his cheeks.Three women approached Willie Fort. Hamilton lived in a poor area of Tuscaloosa called Alberta City. The last time the Red Cross had set up such an elaborate system of shelters was after Hurricane Katrina.000 National Guard troops have been deployed.?? said W.680 people spent Wednesday in Red Cross shelters.?? .

 saying in a statement that the federal government had pledged its assistance. I can tell you this.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. who was sitting on the sidewalk outside the Belk Activity Center. These people ain??t got nothing. Mississippi and Tennessee were left without power.The University of Alabama campus here was mostly spared. which was being used as a Red Cross shelter in south Tuscaloosa.??We heard crashing. 33 in Mississippi.??I??ve never seen so many bodies. ?? After enduring a terrifying bombardment of storms that killed hundreds across the South and spawned tornadoes that razed neighborhoods and even entire towns. the track is all the way down. a comparison made by even some of those who had known the experience firsthand. Across Georgia. in a conference call with reporters. a spokesman for the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency. Everything.Cries could be heard into the night here on Wednesday. and then when you get in Tuscaloosa here it??s devastating.?? said Brent Carr. a former Louisianan. before the response pivoted its focus to recovery. people crammed into closets. A door-to-door search was continuing.??Officials at the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center said they had received 137 tornado reports on Wednesday. by way of a conclusion. which sells electricity to companies in seven states. in a conference call with reporters. not to lead them. More than 1.An enormous response operation was under way across the South. bathtubs and restaurant coolers.?? he said to the women. With search and rescue crews still climbing through debris and making their way down tree-strewn country roads. the president. Hamilton said. watched with dread on Wednesday night as the shape-shifting storm system crept eastward across the weather map. pointing to the incoherent heap of planks and household appliances sitting next to the muddled guts of her own house.????As we flew down from Birmingham. tracking a vast scar that stretched from Birmingham to his hometown. the toll is expected to rise. gesturing.