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Go to ra.com for your free joint profile so you can better talk to your rheumatologist about protecting your joints. jon: a fox news alert out of alabama where president obama is touring the tornado outbreak area. hes checking the damage out right now. at least 210 people died in alabama alone. the twisters flattened entire neighborhoods really across the

A lot of homes and businesses destroyed. damage will probably be in the billions right now. the mayor says at this point that the infrastructure of tuscaloosa has been decimated. more than 95,000 people live here. more than 30,000 from the university alone. this is an area that many of the students from the college lived. people are now trying to figure out what theyre going to do. they are trying to figure out what to get from their insurance. unfortunately for 210 families that were affected f...

Stuff. i dont see our house. its not real. but i know it is, because i mean that doesnt look anything like we lived in. >> reporter: its all too real for summer and her roommate and for so many thousands of people in tuscloosa, birmingham, communities between mississippi and all the way up into virginia. its so extraordinary and we keep coming back to this. martha, about the extent of this damage. we have seen damage like this before on a smaller scale, but this goes on for mile upon mile upon m...

Expect the president to make any sort of formal remarks. the kind where you see him walk up to a podium but he did talk about the storms yesterday at an event here at the white house. he said i want every american affected by this disaster to know that the federal government will do everything we can to help you recover and well stand with you as you rebuild. so this is really an indication today that this is just the beginning of the federal response. you have fema director craig fugate in the ...

State. we declared a state of emergency early on, even before the first tornados hit. and then we mobilized our national guard the first day. we then asked the president for aid and we asked him to expedite that and they have done that, and i just want you to know how much i appreciate that, mr. president, because all these people appreciate that so much. we have eight counties across the state that have been hit by major tornados. this probably is the worst one, but we have others. as you go ac...

Rescue efforts are still ongoing. at the top of the show we heard from that red-headed lady, her name is jessie strickland and shes friends of those three university students who died. you see this pile of debris. just beyond it is just where their house used to be. what the storm did is that it picked up the home and just wiped it right off its slab and blew most of the home across the street into a tree right across the street there. and just take a look at what the storm did. you can see a re...

Toll topping 210 in alabama and 42 in tuscaloosa and we should be reminded while this is the epicenter of the devastation, it is elsewhere, as well, and these are pictures i took this morning on the way from birmingham to tuscaloosa in a little town. this home is owned by a couple and their three young sons werelying in the home with them. this was a smaller tornado that came through and destroyed the house 12 hours before the main storm. he got up at 5:00 in the morning when he heard the tornad...

And it wont be going off on schedule. >> reporter: they expected a record crowd. you spend a lot of money to come down here and take the kids. jenna: scenes of damage and so many heartbreaking stories. video of the violent weather coming into our newsroom minute by minute. here is what it looked like in chattanooga, tennessee. a very dark sky there. the smithville in mississippi is simply gone. a rare very powerful e5 tornado lipped througripped through thef town. 210 confirmed dead in birmingha...

Say that the house was pushed across the street and slammed into a tree across the street there. and one of the bodies of the students was found right underneath that big tree that toppled over, the house across the street as well. 210 people dead in the state of alabama. there are a lot of people right now trying to figure out what the next step is. that includes talking to insurance companies, but unfortunately for the 210 families affected by the fatalities, they now have to move ahead and tr...

Care about is the municipalitys ability to pay and when the debt ceiling is held hostage by republicans in congress that, threatens our rate, nothing else. we had rhetoric in this country for 210 years. i mean, jefferson called adams a hermaphadite. thats tamed in comparison. >> im not opposed to a vigorous debate, chris. chris, im not oppose to a vigorous debate but what is the point of the debt ceiling if you raise the ceiling every time you need to borrow more money? that has the s&p spooked ...