Obama visits tornado-ravaged states and promises aid
“We are going to do everything we can to help these communities rebuild,” Obama told reporters after touring smashed homes and talking with survivors in Tuscaloosa, a university city in Alabama that was wrecked by the tornadoes.
Alabama was the hardest hit of seven southern states that were blasted this week by a swarm of tornadoes and violent storms that flattened whole neighbourhoods. It was the deadliest US natural catastrophe since Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
