Obama ramps up recovery help for tornado-hit American South
By REUTERS
PLEASANT GROVE - The US government ramped up efforts on Saturday to help thousands of homeless victims of the country's second deadliest recorded tornado outbreak, which killed at least 350 people.US President Barack Obama, who surveyed the tornado destruction in the worst-hit state of Alabama on Friday and called it "heartbreaking," was sending top officials to the disaster zone this weekend to escalate federal assistance.With some estimates putting the number of homes and buildings destroyed at close to 10,000, state and federal authorities in the US South were still coming to terms with the scale of this week's devastation from the country's worst natural catastrophe since Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
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