At least 200 dead since the beginning of the wave of bad weather (but the number is expected to rise in all likelihood). Five states-Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia - forced to count the dead and declare a state of emergency. It 'a disaster of vast proportions that has engulfed the southern United States.
"The death toll is expected to grow," says Robert Bentley, governor of Alabama, the state hardest hit. The television images reminiscent of roofless houses, shops gutted, people trapped under the rubble, prepared makeshift shelters in churches and gymnasiums. The Browns Ferry nuclear power plant, one of the largest in the world, on the banks of the Tennessee River, remained without electricity and working with emergency generators.
President Barack Obama has approved federal funding overtime and said he is following "hour by hour" as the situation evolves. For all the ghost is called Katrina a natural disaster due to neglect, racism, prejudice, becomes a political disaster. The name has surfaced several times during these hours.
"The number of interruptions in electricity is equal to that caused by Hurricane Katrina," said a spokesman for energy company in Alabama. The risk of political fallout, however, is especially strong if you look at the agenda of Barack Obama. The president is expected Friday in Cape Canaveral, Fla., for the final launch the Endeavour, the space shuttle missions that will retire after 25.
The area is not among those affected by the storms of wind and rain, but it would be - politically - a beautiful sight to see the president celebrate the technological achievements of America and a part of the country and its citizens lie in the water, poverty in despair. This tornado also reveals the social divisions that mark the United States.
In Tuscaloosa, a city of 83 000 people registered at the University of Alabama, the areas most affected appear to be those of aluminum and plywood shacks in the south of the city, swept away by the wind and the rivers of water that came out into the streets. In Birmingham, the most populous city in Alabama, the heart of the civil rights movement, where Martin Luther King was pastor, the victims are mainly concentrated in the center, home to most of the resident African-Americans (whites have moved to suburbs ).
Kemper County, Mississippi, three sisters died in their mobile home swept away by the tornado. Many of the mobile homes scattered from Texas to Georgia proved to be death traps. To prevent further casualties, the governor of Alabama has now asked people to remain locked in the house. "Avoid going out, going to work or to shop." Opportunities to exit are, however, reduced the bone.
As the rain and the wind continued to beat (today is expected attenuation of the phenomena, and the rush of the tornado to the east), the roads appear to be blocked by debris of houses, felled trees, light poles from the gutted, from the signs of business went to pieces. 335mila people were without electricity in Alabama alone.
Other 50 000 will be found lacking in an area that extends from the East Texas to Memphis. The law school of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, has become a makeshift shelter for thousands of people homeless. The waters of the dam of Black River in northeast Arkansas, have burst their banks, and poured into the surrounding highways.
Not even the weather forecast center in Huntsville, Alabama still have been spared. Meteorologists had to seek refuge in a steel building in the basement, where monitor the changing situation. 1400 National Guard soldiers are deployed in these hours for the roads of Alabama to administer first aid.
"Our thoughts go to all those involved in the devastation, and those who work tirelessly and heroically to respond to the disaster," Obama said. The President, according to sources in the White House could decide at the last moment to make a stop in Alabama, before reaching Florida. Katrina's ghost continues to haunt the U.S.
presidents. And to suggest caution, especially timeliness in dealing with the tragedy. 
"The death toll is expected to grow," says Robert Bentley, governor of Alabama, the state hardest hit. The television images reminiscent of roofless houses, shops gutted, people trapped under the rubble, prepared makeshift shelters in churches and gymnasiums. The Browns Ferry nuclear power plant, one of the largest in the world, on the banks of the Tennessee River, remained without electricity and working with emergency generators.
President Barack Obama has approved federal funding overtime and said he is following "hour by hour" as the situation evolves. For all the ghost is called Katrina a natural disaster due to neglect, racism, prejudice, becomes a political disaster. The name has surfaced several times during these hours.
"The number of interruptions in electricity is equal to that caused by Hurricane Katrina," said a spokesman for energy company in Alabama. The risk of political fallout, however, is especially strong if you look at the agenda of Barack Obama. The president is expected Friday in Cape Canaveral, Fla., for the final launch the Endeavour, the space shuttle missions that will retire after 25.
The area is not among those affected by the storms of wind and rain, but it would be - politically - a beautiful sight to see the president celebrate the technological achievements of America and a part of the country and its citizens lie in the water, poverty in despair. This tornado also reveals the social divisions that mark the United States.
In Tuscaloosa, a city of 83 000 people registered at the University of Alabama, the areas most affected appear to be those of aluminum and plywood shacks in the south of the city, swept away by the wind and the rivers of water that came out into the streets. In Birmingham, the most populous city in Alabama, the heart of the civil rights movement, where Martin Luther King was pastor, the victims are mainly concentrated in the center, home to most of the resident African-Americans (whites have moved to suburbs ).
Kemper County, Mississippi, three sisters died in their mobile home swept away by the tornado. Many of the mobile homes scattered from Texas to Georgia proved to be death traps. To prevent further casualties, the governor of Alabama has now asked people to remain locked in the house. "Avoid going out, going to work or to shop." Opportunities to exit are, however, reduced the bone.
As the rain and the wind continued to beat (today is expected attenuation of the phenomena, and the rush of the tornado to the east), the roads appear to be blocked by debris of houses, felled trees, light poles from the gutted, from the signs of business went to pieces. 335mila people were without electricity in Alabama alone.
Other 50 000 will be found lacking in an area that extends from the East Texas to Memphis. The law school of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, has become a makeshift shelter for thousands of people homeless. The waters of the dam of Black River in northeast Arkansas, have burst their banks, and poured into the surrounding highways.
Not even the weather forecast center in Huntsville, Alabama still have been spared. Meteorologists had to seek refuge in a steel building in the basement, where monitor the changing situation. 1400 National Guard soldiers are deployed in these hours for the roads of Alabama to administer first aid.
"Our thoughts go to all those involved in the devastation, and those who work tirelessly and heroically to respond to the disaster," Obama said. The President, according to sources in the White House could decide at the last moment to make a stop in Alabama, before reaching Florida. Katrina's ghost continues to haunt the U.S.
presidents. And to suggest caution, especially timeliness in dealing with the tragedy.
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