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After Storms Kill Hundreds, South Tries to Regroup

New York Times - Campbell Robertson, Kim Severson - ‎1 hour ago‎
An apartment complex was in ruins Thursday in Tuscaloosa, Ala. The University of Alabama campus was mostly spared. More Photos » By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON and KIM SEVERSON TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — After enduring a terrifying bombardment of storms that killed ...

Most-deadly day of tornadoes in USA since 1974

USA Today - Oren Dorell - ‎1 hour ago‎
Communities across the Southeast are preparing to bury the dead this weekend after the deadliest day of tornadoes in 37 years killed at least 290 people. By Rogelio V. Solis, AP The wreckage of a Jeep remains Thursday in Phil ...

South staggers from deadliest natural disaster since Katrina

The Seattle Times - ‎58 minutes ago‎
The death toll approached 300 on Thursday as rescuers dug through rubble from Mississippi to Virginia in the nation's deadliest natural... By Seattle Times news services AMANDA SOWARDS / AP Daniel Hinton looks at the remains of his tornado-shattered ...

Obama Signs Disaster Declaration for Alabama Tornadoes

Fox News - ‎1 hour ago‎
| AP PLEASANT GROVE, Ala. -- President Barack Obama has signed a disaster declaration for Alabama to help residents clean up the devastation left by killer tornadoes and flooding. More than 200 people were killed in Wednesday's twister outbreak and ...

Survivors tell amazing stories of living through tornadoes

Kansas City Star - ‎56 minutes ago‎
In Alabama — where more than 200 people died in the storms — this aerial view of a neighborhood in Tuscaloosa was a scene of devastation Thursday. PLEASANT GROVE, Ala. | Firefighters searched one splintered pile after another for survivors Thursday, ...

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Tornado survivors' stories: 'It looks like an atomic bomb went off'

CNN (blog) - ‎51 minutes ago‎
[Updated at 9:57 pm ET] More than 280 people have been killed by the wave of violent weather that has swept across the South the past two days. Survivors told of entire neighborhoods reduced to rubble and the terror of tornadoes ripping through their ...

Letters to the President: #829 'In the tornadoes' wake'

CNN (blog) - ‎1 hour ago‎
Reporter's Note: The president is heading to the site of some of those massive storms. I assumed the long awaited release of your so called “long form” birth certificate would be the subject of this letter today, but you'll understand that the ...

Tornadoes Across the South, Death Toll Rises: Join the Live Chat

CNN (blog) - ‎4 hours ago‎
We're live across the South as people there come to grips with terrible devastation from some of the worst tornadoes in recent memory. Plus, the countdown to the royal wedding. Anderson is in London. We're just hours from the Prince William and Kate ...

United States

Obama signs disaster declaration for Ala twisters

Atlanta Journal Constitution - Holbrook Mohr - ‎1 hour ago‎
AP PLEASANT GROVE, Ala. — President Barack Obama has signed a disaster declaration for Alabama to help residents clean up the devastation left by killer tornadoes and flooding. Tamisha Cunningham, who suffered a leg injury when her ...

Killer twisters likely among largest, strongest

Newsday (subscription) - ‎1 hour ago‎
Photo credit: AP | This aerial photo shows the devastation of The Rosedale Court housing community in Tuscaloosa, Ala. on Thursday, April 28, 2011. A powerful and deadly tornado cut through Alabama Wednesday evening. President Barack Obama said he ...

Birmingham, AL

Tuscaloosa tornado: Hope turns to sorrow in search for 5-year-old

al.com (blog) - ‎36 minutes ago‎
Enlarge Mark Almond -- The Birmingham News Rescue workers tend an injured 6-year-old at Rosedale Courts, 10th after he was pulled from the rubble on Greensboro Avenues, Tuscaloosa, Ala., after tornadoes struck on April 27, 2011. ...

Tuscaloosa tornadoes: Shattered town comes to terms with devastation

al.com (blog) - Bob Carlton, Don Kausler Jr. - ‎46 minutes ago‎
By Bob Carlton -- The Birmingham News TUSCALOOSA, Alabama -- On the day after, the survivors were left to pick up the pieces. By late Thursday, the death toll from the historic tornado that had ripped through Alabama's fifth-largest city the day before ...

Alabama leads way at draft; Saban talks NFL draft

Capstone Report - ‎53 minutes ago‎
The Alabama Crimson Tide produced four first round draft picks. Marcel Dareus was picked by Buffalo. Julio Jones was picked by Atlanta. James Carpenter was picked by the Seattle. Mark Ingram was picked by New Orleans. Video reports follow below, ...

Tuscaloosa, AL

Bentley addresses needs in community

The University of Alabama Crimson White - Taylor Holland - ‎5 hours ago‎
Gov. Robert Bentley, alongside state senators Richard Shelby, Jeff Sessions and other government officials, toured parts of Alabama Thursday, in an attempt to assess damages caused by an EF-5 tornado that devastated much of Alabama on ...

Deadly storm systems cause statewide destruction

The University of Alabama Crimson White - Kelsey Stein, Karissa Bursch - ‎9 hours ago‎
Update: As of 9:12 pm, the Alabama Emergency Management Agency had confirmed 204 dead throughout the state. At least 296 have died across seven Southern states. Update: Gov. Robert Bentley announced that the death toll in the state of ...

Mayor Walt Maddox: Search and rescue still the priority

The University of Alabama Crimson White - Stephen Nathaniel Dethrage - ‎10 hours ago‎
Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox urged students and citizens to stay patient, conserve water, volunteer and stay out of the damaged areas of the city in an emergency city council meeting on Thursday. Maddox also said that the ...

Oklahoma

Tornado outbreak across South amazes meteorologists

NewsOK.com - ‎40 minutes ago‎
Wednesday's historic tornado outbreak in the South will go down in the record books and will be studied and analyzed for years to come by meteorologists and other researchers, an expert said Thursday. Wednesday's historic tornado outbreak in the South ...

Weather service in OK predicted storms

KFOR - Tina McGarry - ‎2 hours ago‎
NORMAN, Okla. -- Five days before the deadly tornado outbreak in the south, meteorologists in Norman could see the dangerous ingredients coming together. The Storm Prediction Center issues all tornado and thunderstorm watches for the continental United ...

Alabama Storm Chase Videos Go Viral

KOKI FOX 23 - Adam Paluka - ‎2 hours ago‎
Some of the most amazing tornado video coming out off Alabama is from tower cams, others comes from Photojournalists and trained storm chasers, but some were not shot by professionals. Instead, they were shot by amateurs, people who seek out storms ...

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Tornado survivors' stories: 'It looks like an atomic bomb went off'
‎51 minutes ago‎ - CNN (blog)
Obama To Visit Tornado-Racked Alabama Friday
‎12 hours ago‎ - NPR (blog)
Obama to View Alabama Damage
‎12 hours ago‎ - Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
White House mobilizes response in wake of deadly storms
‎14 hours ago‎ - CNN (blog)
Our Thoughts Go Out To Our Southern Readers
‎15 hours ago‎ - MrSEC
Deadly Storms Hit South
‎18 hours ago‎ - Wall Street Journal
Huge tornadoes slash into Ala. cities
‎Apr 27, 2011‎ - msnbc.com (blog)

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