The U.S. president, Barack Obama has walked today from the devastation in the city of Tuscaloosa, home of the University of Alabama and one of the areas most affected by tornadoes in recent days have left about 300 dead in six Southern states and Midwest. "I've never seen devastation like this," said the president.
From Air Force One, Obama might have a first look at the destruction that was to watch firsthand. From the air, the president saw huge scars left on earth to have been uprooted trees and see that where once there were houses there are now rubble crushed to the ground by the force of wind.
With sleeves rolled up, the president walked through the ruins and chatted with families. One of them stood at the entrance of a house marked with a large X, which means it has been inspected and no victims inside. "We will do everything we can," assured the president. "What we've seen is heartbreaking," he continued, referring to the most brutal tornados sustained in the past 40 years.
Michelle Obama has remained largely beside her husband as it offered condolences to the victims. Obama has traveled to Alabama with his family because after all must continue to travel to Florida to attend the final launch of Endeavour, although this was delayed 48 hours due to technical problems.
According to a White House statement, what the president wanted to emphasize with your visit to the area was to ensure citizens the Administration's commitment to help in every way possible to those affected. In Alberta, an area of Tuscaloosa, the president made a brief statement in which he said he was going to help rebuild these communities.
"We can not bring back those we have lost, are now with God." Alabama authorities try to overcome a tragedy that has left more than a million people without power and now faces problems as basic as not having enough bags to store the bodies, so they are being stored in refrigerated trucks.
The gas stations that still stand gather huge queues of customers waiting to get some fuel to run generators that have light. The Governor of Alabama, Robert Bentley, yesterday ordered the deployment of 2,000 National Guard members to assist as needed. The latest official figures released this morning by the Alabama Office of Emergency confirms 210 deaths in that state.
In Mississippi have been killed 33 people, another 33 in Tennessee, 15 in Georgia, five in Virginia and one in Kentucky. Thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands have been injured only in Tuscaloosa, 800 of them are of gravity.
From Air Force One, Obama might have a first look at the destruction that was to watch firsthand. From the air, the president saw huge scars left on earth to have been uprooted trees and see that where once there were houses there are now rubble crushed to the ground by the force of wind.
With sleeves rolled up, the president walked through the ruins and chatted with families. One of them stood at the entrance of a house marked with a large X, which means it has been inspected and no victims inside. "We will do everything we can," assured the president. "What we've seen is heartbreaking," he continued, referring to the most brutal tornados sustained in the past 40 years.
Michelle Obama has remained largely beside her husband as it offered condolences to the victims. Obama has traveled to Alabama with his family because after all must continue to travel to Florida to attend the final launch of Endeavour, although this was delayed 48 hours due to technical problems.
According to a White House statement, what the president wanted to emphasize with your visit to the area was to ensure citizens the Administration's commitment to help in every way possible to those affected. In Alberta, an area of Tuscaloosa, the president made a brief statement in which he said he was going to help rebuild these communities.
"We can not bring back those we have lost, are now with God." Alabama authorities try to overcome a tragedy that has left more than a million people without power and now faces problems as basic as not having enough bags to store the bodies, so they are being stored in refrigerated trucks.
The gas stations that still stand gather huge queues of customers waiting to get some fuel to run generators that have light. The Governor of Alabama, Robert Bentley, yesterday ordered the deployment of 2,000 National Guard members to assist as needed. The latest official figures released this morning by the Alabama Office of Emergency confirms 210 deaths in that state.
In Mississippi have been killed 33 people, another 33 in Tennessee, 15 in Georgia, five in Virginia and one in Kentucky. Thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands have been injured only in Tuscaloosa, 800 of them are of gravity.
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