much of Tuscaloosa was on Wednesday the death toll from the tornado, the meeting of the southern us this week has increased, 340, in one of the worst outbreaks of Twister in the history of the country by a mile-wide tornado devastated.Soldiers and emergency teams looking for bodies and survivors.
More than 200 tornadoes reported over six southern States on Tuesday and Wednesday.
During a visit to Alabama, which bore the brunt of the storms, he said "never devastation like had seen" President Barack Obama.
Mr Obama said city in Tuscaloosa, an Alabama hit by a tornado of mile-wide (1.6 km) on Wednesday.
"We will do all what we, to help reconstruction to these communities,", Obama said. "We make sure that you are not forgotten."
More than 250 people died in Alabama alone - most on Wednesday.
More than a million homes and businesses in the State are still without electricity.
The total death toll of the southern us makes it the second deadliest tornado outbreak in U.S. history, the associated press news agency reported.
BBC weather update in the southern usIt says that the largest number of casualties was ever in March 1925, when killed 747 people in the storm that raged through Missouri, Illinois and Indiana.
Governor of Alabama Robert Bentley said he expected more bodies are found in the coming days.
The Mayor of Birmingham, the largest city in the State, told reporters on Friday: "All areas of housing, only fully gone." Churches, gone. Companies, gone... "[it] seems like a bomb been is dropped."
Storms and tornadoes have caused also deaths in Tennessee, Mississippi, Kentucky, Louisiana, Georgia and Virginia.
A state emergency remains in these States.
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