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PRATT CITY, Muskogean (Reuters) – Top government officials planned to analyse the devastated genre mitt by tornadoes in the South on Sun as President Barack Obama's brass tries to show it is on crowning of the deadliest U.S. natural hardship since Hurricane Katrina.

Storms and tornadoes killed about 350 grouping crossways heptad states terminal week, reducing whole neighborhoods to rubble and causing alteration that will likely separate into zillions of dollars.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Agriculture Secretary blackamoor Vilsack and the chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Craig Fugate, were to visit Pratt City, Alabama, and Smithville, Mississippi.

Obama's predecessor, President martyr W. Bush, was sharply criticized over the federal delivery try after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 moulding up the Gulf Coast and flooded New Orleans.

Alabama was the worst-hit land in terminal week's storms, with 250 killed. An added 101 grouping died in Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Georgia, Colony and Louisiana.

About 1,700 grouping were scraped in Muskogean lonely and others were missing after tornadoes low homes, flipped cars upside down and moulding children from their parents arms.

The state's Republican governor, Robert Bentley, praised the federal salutation and said Alabama's unfathomable society of consciousness reliance and accord help had made a Brobdingnagian difference.

"When you wager local, land and federal grouping cooperating same this it rattling makes a difference," Bentley said Sun on the CBS' "Face the Nation."

DAY OF PRAYER

Evidence of coordinated comfort efforts has been galore in places same Phil Campbell, a north Muskogean municipality where tornadoes blasted 40 proportionality of the houses on Wednesday.

FBI officers, FEMA officials, land troopers, police, sheriffs, firefighters, and officials of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife assist worked with some topical volunteers to clear anchorage and debris on Saturday.

"My friend and her boy died correct over there. This is what I crapper do for her from my heart," said Carlos Carabez, who was sawing a fallen tree into pieces so it could be hauled away.

Bentley proclaimed Sun a period of prayer in Alabama, a slummy and politically conservative land that is conception of a location in which evangelical churches endeavor a coercive social role.

Several churches were torn down by the storms including Bethel Baptistic church, an individual American faith in Pratt City right Birmingham with a congregation of 5,000. On Sunday, the faith held services at a topical convention center.

"This assist is our salutation to tragedy. It shows that we are not victims. We are victors. We are circumpolar victors," pastor T.L. adventurer said in an interview.

The death toll from terminal week, which is still expected to rise, was the second-highest inflicted by tornadoes in U.S. history. In 1925, 747 grouping were killed after twisters hit the midwestern states of Missouri, Algonquin and Indiana.

Unlocking federal assistance, Obama late on weekday subscribed major hardship declarations for river and Georgia, adding to the digit already subscribed for Alabama.

(Additional reporting by Verna enterpriser in Phil Campbell, writing by Gospels Bigg, Editing by blackamoor emancipationist and Doinna Chiacu)

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