Alabama: US President Barack Obama has said he has “never seen devastation like this” after visiting a tornado-ravaged Alabama. Speaking in Tuscaloosa, Obama said Washington would do everything possible to help communities rebuild.
At least 318 people died, most of them in Alabama, as tornadoes ripped through a swathe of states.
Widespread devastation has also been reported in Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia and Virginia.
A state of emergency has been declared in seven states, and federal aid money is being sent to Alabama.
“We’re going to make sure you’re not forgotten,” Obama told Tuscaloosa survivors as he and his wife, Michelle, toured the devastated city.
A twister thought to be a mile wide ploughed through the city earlier this week.
As many as a million homes and businesses across Alabama are still without power.
The US National Weather Service (NWS) has reports of nearly 300 tornadoes since the storms began a week ago, more than 150 of them on Wednesday alone.
“These were the most intense super-cell thunderstorms that I think anybody who was out there forecasting has ever seen,” Greg Carbin of the NWS Storm Prediction Center in Oklahoma told media.
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