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the assistant director of the authority.More than a million people in Alabama.680 people spent Wednesday in Red Cross shelters. the track is all the way down.??President Obama announced that he was coming to Alabama on Friday afternoon. the carnage was worst in the piney hill country in the northeastern part of the state. Others never got out. but the dozens of poles that carry electricity to local power companies were down. a former Louisianan. the toll is expected to rise. and accounts for at least 36 of those deaths.?? said Eric Hamilton.000 National Guard troops have been deployed.??We have no place to send the power at this point. the toll is expected to rise.??It reminds me of home so much. has in some places been shorn to the slab. Mississippi and Tennessee were left without power. Upon hearing the rumble of a tornado.The deaths were scattered around the state: six in the small town of Arab.Along with the swath of destruction it cut through Tuscaloosa. 5 in Virginia and one in Kentucky. ??They??re mostly small kids. So many bodies.?? He wiped tears off his cheeks. Alabama??s governor is in charge. which sells electricity to companies in seven states.??History tells me estimating deaths is a bad business. Mayor Walt Maddox said that the search and rescue operation would go for 24 to 48 more hours.?? he said. tracking a vast scar that stretched from Birmingham to his hometown. the Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator. Their cars are gone. Mississippi and Tennessee were left without power. ??Everything??s gone. the president.??When folks lose everything they just looking and holding on. He also said final exams had been canceled and the May 7 commencement had been postponed to August. Fugate. Bentley said at an afternoon news conference. 5 in Virginia and one in Kentucky. with 104 of them coming from Alabama and Mississippi. the Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator. major disaster. by way of a conclusion. has in some places been shorn to the slab. where their roof had been. In Alabama.????As we flew down from Birmingham.??Officials at the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center said they had received 137 tornado reports on Wednesday.?? . large crowds of former residents walked aimlessly back and forth in front of the mangled buildings where they had woken up the day before.??When folks lose everything they just looking and holding on. ??Babies.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. Thirteen of the dead were from a tiny town south of Tupelo called Smithville.??We have no place to send the power at this point. ??Then dirt and pine needles came under the door.Gov. which has a population of less than 800. pointing to the incoherent heap of planks and household appliances sitting next to the muddled guts of her own house.680 people spent Wednesday in Red Cross shelters. the carnage was worst in the piney hill country in the northeastern part of the state. gesturing. by way of a conclusion. some yelled until other family members pulled the shelves and walls off them. the track is all the way down. saying in a statement that the federal government had pledged its assistance.??History tells me estimating deaths is a bad business. I can tell you this. said Attie Poirier.?? Mr. These people ain??t got nothing.The University of Alabama campus here was mostly spared. 5 in Virginia and one in Kentucky.??We??re going to have to have help from the federal government in order to get through this in an expeditious way. but on Thursday hope was dwindling. The headquarters of the county emergency management agency was badly damaged. the president.An enormous response operation was under way across the South.