we have a terrific panel of experts, the haiti earthquake, hurricane katrina, and tsunami. george thomas usually hosts but today we are relying on his experiences reporting from disaster zones. also reporting is chief international reporter gary lane. gentleman, thank you for being us, gary, let me begin by asking you, what is the worst disaster you have been to? >> i would say the tsunami in indonesia in 2004, 2005, when we flew over the area with samaritan's purse, i had never seen anything quite like that. >> when you see the video from japan, it reminds you? >> yes. >> george, what about you? >> what was my first earthquake? back in 1999 in taipei, taiwan. the numerous after shocks we experienced, no doubt, clearly what happened in haiti, we were there 48 hours after the earthquake. just to see the extent of devastation, haiti being the poorest country of the world. just to see the bodies that were still there on the streets in apartment buildings and the sheer magnitude of ache in the people's hearts as they deal with the catastrophe. >> george, we talk about haiti bei

during hurricane katrina the u.s. military went around and confiscated guns from legal gun owners in new orleans how do you feel about that and i don't know much about venerates and south i don't like i don't think that's right that's like that's not cool they happen so they need this for protection let's freeze the bill rates for a very long time so. after hurricane katrina in a crime that the judge later determined to be barbaric thirty one year old henry glover was shot in the back while an armed before his body was burned inside his own vehicle the perpetrators of this heinous crime were police officers david warren who shot glover a strip mall was going to pick up clothing for a child and gregory mcrae who commandeered the victim's vehicle and set it on fire after a good samaritan use it to transport the victim's body to a police compound in a school just last week the man began sentences of twenty five and seventeen years respectively as u.s. district judge lance afeard said henry glover was gunned down because

katrina is with us shortly with a look at the latest business news but first let's have a quick look at some other international news making the headlines this hour a massive explosion in morocco which left at least fourteen people dead was an act of terrorism according to officials around twenty other people were injured including two russian nationals investigators say it's still too soon to say who is responsible the blast was a cafe in america question the main square which is a tourist hot spot. a suicide bombers brought itself up in eastern iraq a town of balad through is killing at least eleven people and injuring twenty others an improvised explosive device went off inside a shia mosque shortly after evening prayers idiota province where the attack took place is home to both sonny and cher muslims and remains one of iraq's most violent areas. to the u.s. the number killed by storm sweeping across the southern states of the country has exceeded two hundred ten destructive damage in several towns and alabama where most of the victims were dozens of roads are impassable hundreds

i saw this firsthand, i went down to help out with katrina thing in september. it's weird. because you are dealing with people that lost everything and it's kind of hard to imagine that if you haven't done it yourself. basically, you know, she's looking at her curtains here, she probably hand-stitched those things. maybe they have been hanging there the last 5 or 6 years. everything in the house is wrecked, photos, keepsakes, it's a tough thing. and people deal with this kind of stress in different ways. we as disaster workers, we see it all the time. but we have a word we use, professional. we try to be professional around people that have suffered a loss like this because they don't want us to come -- you don't want to go into somebody's house and be joking and having a good time. it's unprofessional. when you are dealing with somebody who has a loss like this, just think of the word professional. that's what we try to do. this sort of body language here, she's trying to comfort here, do you think she's buying it? not with that body language. she's not really buying it. s

new approach is taken because of what they learned in katrina. we talk to bay area volunteers preparing to head to the south east. john has a lot to do before leaving for mississippi. >> this will be my 16th time going out to national disaster. >>reporter: soon the retired engineer will be in the middle of the disaster zone as red cross volunteer. he will need to set up a communication system. >> building up the network. con figure computer, deploying necessary support equipment. >>reporter: total of 12 red cross volunteers from the bay area will leaf for the disaster zone in the next 24 hours. several dozen more are already on standby which means they could be deployed at moment notice. maintaining correct staffing level is keevlt less sont red cross learned after hurricane katrina. >> getting resource. we have a better handle on what resources are needed. do we need people that are shelter work. people that do mental health. people to do technology better sense of what kind of staffing to send out there. >> a lot of different things that they n

the opportunity was katrina. and that allowed an awful lot of changes to happen in a very short period of time. >> yes. >> knife argument -- i have argument with that. drew have any argument with that version? >> we have these -- we could put these in place in different cities, but you can do an awful lot of good by blowing it up. >> if we had real leadership, determined to solve this problem if we viewed it as the crisis that it is, we would blow it up to use your terminology in lots of other contexts. >> i'm going to ask you about what you mean by other contexts because of katrina. >> absolutely. >> in other contexts. we're in the situation in a number of different areas in our society where objectively what we look at the institutional structures we have, we realize if we were starting from scratch, we would never, ever have anything even remotely reseemling what we have now. health care, everyone would agray if we were starting from scratch we would have a system that would bear zero semblance, but we tweak i

, or that it would be worse than katrina. anniversary of this oil spill, and there's no question that those words are ringing true right now because the economy in the coastal community has not picked up. one crab fisherman they talked to, thomas barriose in golden meadow, he's having trouble finding crabs. he's not sure if the crabs have moved around because there's oil down on the bottom or if it's just a bad season. but it's frightening to them to have to face another bad season and not knowing if their business is ever going to rebound. just a couple of weeks ago, iwg3 flew out in a helicopter over deep waterñzicñrÑi horizon rig,t sank ú+here the oil spill happened. and as you fly over it now, it's just open blue sea. there's nothing lingering that would tell that you there was an oil spill there, and there's nothing indicating that it's a work site anymore because it's not. but there's no question there's other aspects of this that are affecting people's lives to this day, and affecting the ecology to this day. >> wo

the flood song poems were poems written in reaction to katrina. how can i enter that space of writing poems about that. i'm not from there and don't have family there. who benefits from that tragedy? who benefits from that disregard for humanity and the thought animals would benefit from that. this first poem is flood songs number 4 mosquitoes drinking didy. >> drink every hour next up this hour and every hour after. was born in the river there is enough to go around. drink every hour on the hour and every hour after. in the river there is enough to go around. drink every hour. there is enough to go around. drink every hour and every hour after. go to the river there is enough to go around. drink up the hours and every after burned down by the river -- drink air land is here for after survivors go around they are enough. [applause] >> flood song 8 stray dogs duet. >> the every i learned. food. for the good. love. your hand smiled with me. you wanted me to understand you with -- my teeth. hunger seemed the only -- tongue we shared. the sky -- opene

are we building another katrina in the delta and are we doing so that increases the delta failure that has profound water shortage implications and we have them claiming yes climate change is real, yes, it has implications, but, no, they would not evaluate them. so being the reasonable people we are, we sued them. but we think it require as real analysis especially when agencies are making long-term issues with profound effects for public safety and we hope the courts resolve that rapidly and the legislature can do that as well. >> as far as regional exercises, i think i'm all for it. they do have their limitations but the way to improve these models and to understand their capabilities is to use them and try to confirm that they work on big events that we actually have observed, and so you know, typically, we look retrospective simulations and try to introduce as much independence in the tests that are used, in order to gain confidence that the models work in future situations. i'm not familiar with the environmental quality act or activity that you mentioned but i think it's worth di

can we talk about katrina? i'd love to hear some insight from the experts about the decision-making process there. i don't think it's an utter failure. as a louisiana resident, i'm haunted by it still. what went wrong there? how is that a new kind of function of the presidency to deal with, you know, natural disaster in that capacity that becomes racial, economic, and political? >> i'm glad that someone brought it up. i was going to interject. when we look at domestic policy, we have to talk about katrina and immigration. because those two issues deal directly with issues of citizenship rights. when we look at hurricane katrina and the disaster and the failure of the government to respond effectively, what we're seeing is exactly what has been presented in the earlier discussions. and we can see it in bush's policy, particularly his failure to form a cohesive civil rights agenda. and actually in his effort actually somewhat changed what he viewed as federal rights particularly in interjecting the concept of fai

orleans and help rebuild the city after katrina. i was able to go to guadalajara and build a playground in a dark patch. i have raised money for aids research and treatment. i have raised millions of dollars to buy multiple sclerosis. the most important thing in my life and the thing that has made it possible for me to be here today is electronic dance music. i am a raver. i do not wear the bright colors or baggy pants, but it is in my heart and has informed my sense of moral and ethical responsibility to be part of this community. i love san francisco and california. i love all of you, as a matter of fact. in the future, i want young people to have the opportunity to be able to express that love to each other, to the community, and to be part of something as special as i was privy to as a youth. the idea of that going away threatens me. -- frightens me. i support supervisor weiner's proposal. >> the last speaker to speak before you -- promoters cannot control what people in just come and get that. but that is what strikes fear into

to compare anything to katrina. but the key there is we want to make sure our government learns from those mistakes. do you feel today that we are better prepared as a result of katrina, and can we become even higher, gain a higher level of preparedness as a result of what happened in japan? >> i don't want to make comparisons to specific events because they're each unique in their own way, but that really shows us why the focus on capabilities is what we believe is the most effective way to approach this. that if we build out certain core capabilities, we'll be able to respond to a wide range of incidents. and so we know that based on guidance and planning and organizing, training and equipment that local emergency managers, local public health, local law enforcement can put those things together in ways that they need to to respond in the most flexible and agile wayment so i think this approach of focusing in on key capabilities, being with very clear about the outcomes we're intending to achieve will make us even

it was kind of after katrina the sort of blow up the school system and start over. can you talk about what happened there and what we learned from that example? i thought was one of the most fascinating parts of the book. >> so, teach for america start replacing teachers in new orleans 20 years ago, and you know, i personally spent a lot of time walking around the new orleans public schools and you could call it a crime scene at some level before hurricane katrina. it was just tragic what was happening to the kids. after the hurricane you may remember many of the kids were displaced to houston. they were living in the astrodome with their parents and some of the folks in the up recruiting the kids and basically running the school for them in houston. the did the diagnostics and discovered that the eighth graders were on the second grade level and that is pretty much what we knew to be the case in new orleans. and you know, so of course post-hurricane katrina, talk about a place where we can see the incredible burden of poverty , but the storm basically created a win

so this is also a test of the post katrina fema. the folks who came to fame for all the wrong reasons after katrina, bosching the response to that. but it isn't the kind of disaster where we are going to have ice trucks driving across the country to get here. obviously most of the state of alabama is up and running and functioning and thriving. western alabama and parts of six other states, however, are dealing with just an earth-shaking tragedy. again, the worst outbreak of tornadoes since the era of the great depression in the united states. >> what is the likelihood of another wave of tornadoes coming? traditionally may is worse than april. we just said an all-time put it in the record books record for the month of april. and it all depends on and i'm not a meet loll gist and sometimes i wish i was. the steering currents, the jet stream as it passes over the united states. the temperature of the pacific this time of year. the temperature trend in the pas civic ocean. est coast storms, if depends on a lot but when you get that awf

it was kind of after katrina the sort of blow up the school system and start over. can you talk about what happened there and what we learned from that example? i thought was one of the most fascinating parts of the book. >> so, teach for america start replacing teachers in new orleans 20 years ago, and you know, i personally spent a lot of time walking around the new orleans public schools and you could call it a crime scene at some level before hurricane katrina. it was just tragic what was happening to the kids. after the hurricane you may remember many of the kids were displaced to houston. they were living in the astrodome with their parents and some of the folks in the up recruiting the kids and basically running the school for them in houston. the did the diagnostics and discovered that the eighth graders were on the second grade level and that is pretty much what we knew to be the case in new orleans. and you know, so of course post-hurricane katrina, talk about a place where we can see the incredible burden of poverty , but the storm basically created a win

i talk about hurricane katrina and there are hurricane katrinas that happen in our individual lives every day, tsunamis come into our lives every day. there are moments you don't think you'll make it to the next day. you've had heart issues and surgeries we've known about and there were times you didn't think you would be around but here you are. >> you continue to use this strong belief even though, don't you ever say, if he's omnipotent, why would he allow the tsunami? tavis: that's always a great debate to engage in, why does god allow this or that to happen. >> you don't have an answer, do you? >> i. tavis: i have a great answer but an honest answer. people only ask why would god allow x, y or z to happen when x, y or z happens. when something good happens, a., b, or c, they never ask, why did that car miss me in the intersection, when i got that raise on the job, why did i get a raise? nobody asks god, why did you allow it to happen when it's good, but when something bad happens, how did god, if he's omnipotent and all-knowing, how could god allow this to happen to me. >> you think t

also the katrina case, and the incredible moments in our country when people really began to understand the human/animal bond. so many people wouldn't leave their area of their home because the government responders wouldn't take them with their animals. so many people so that won't abandoned my best friend during his or her time of greatest need. to read you an excerpt from the chapter on pets, i spent as so many of my colleagues did, a few weeks in new orleans in the wake of hurricane katrina. there was an incredible effort with many organizations and so many individuals who came to help. it was an incredible example of the charitable nature and goodness of the american people. just a couple of paragraphs from this chapter v, for the love of pets. in a lifetime of being around animals i had seen some strange and interesting feigns but here was something completely different. i was standing on the front gallery of a continental airlines 727 that was soon to depart baton rouge airport survey and a plane packed with passengers, all of them dogs. it was like something from a far side cart

katie, good evening... >> smith: katie, this is the deadliest natural disaster since hurricane katrina, and the scope of the devastation is hard to put into words unless you see it with your own eyes. which is what president obama did today. the president and first lady toured the splintered homes here in tuscaloosa and met with some survivors. a visit he called "heartbreaking." as the search for victims continues, at least 318 deaths have been confirmed across the south, including more than 220 of them here in alabama. 1,700 people in the state were injured and more than 600,000 homes are still without power tonight across the south. mark strassmann is with us here in tuscaloosa and i think it's safe to say that this is a city that is still very much in shock. >> reporter: shock and frustration, harry. when you walk through neighborhoods like this one, people ask "when's help coming?" right now they have to rely on each other. alberta city, another part of tuscaloosa's landscape of ruin. mostly low income, but never more in need. >> who wants a hot dog? >> reporter: ...than now. volun

that's a good question i'm saying but katrina the more recent example with actually built oil spill in the gulf there was a lot of conversations you know with different agencies and doing testing and a lot of this boils down to transparency you know data collection so we would like to see more data collection in this country with our food system you know looking at the rain in the soil and the air in places where we grow food we start to see a problem that might start testing the food and so i think we need to gear up that way and we're not there's been slow to gear up i think in this country and so i think we need to get more data and we need a lot of transparency to what the data is that people can can have some confidence or not they can decide for themselves this is adequate and i feel ok about that reassurance or i don't and i'm going to avoid that product and that many more commitment to do you know more commitments trance track record so far really quickly before we run out of time your predictions on what's going to happen with the fukushima plant a year from now i mean is it d

katrina was a catastrophe. this is a plus for this administration, god bless you. host: there are photographs in the newspaper this morning were the president was yesterday. this photo was by todd sherman. it shows an emergency responders in the wreck in smithsville. that took place on wednesday. we will continue on with calls. florida, michael, go ahead. caller: i think after a disaster like this, it is an example in which many might agree where we need a strong federal government. we need a federal government that is prepared to assist and do well by its people. i would also like to add that the states that have their hands out right away are the ultra- republicans. these are the kind of places that have continually tried to strip back our federal government. they always criticize smaller government, smaller government, but there is -- but they are the first to want assistance but of course they need it. it really annoys me that it is expected of this administration to respond so positively and favorably to them in the light of this disaster after a day actually

his work has led him to some of the most troubled spots around the planet from afghanistan to post katrina new orleans his work as lead him to testify in front of the united states congress and along the way he hasn't pulled any punches and literally has changed the world through his reporting he's the author of the book blackwater the rise of the world's most powerful mercenary army and currently is the path and foundation writing fellow at the nation institute and a correspondent for democracy now right now i'm pleased to welcome from new york jeremy scahill if you're only welcome. thank you so great to have you here with us jeremy the new york times is reporting today that mohamad is male the senior aide to say fell on a colonel gadhafi sons has been talking with british officials this week what's your interpretation of that assuming is true. but i think that you're starting to see the beginning stages of the cracking of the regime for most with and this is something that is very common when when these regimes are put under pressure by airstrikes or by a lot of international attention a

editor of left turn magazine and author of this book here floodlight community and resistance from katrina to the jenna sex he told me about how he thinks this law is being misused and the effect it's having on the gay and transgender community. i talked to folks from the african-american gay and transgender community and almost everyone i spoke to had had some kind of incident with the police where they had been targeted they were finding the lead with difficulty hanging out outside of the black gay and transgender and arresting people basically according to people i spoke with the feeling was police after that if someone is black and gay or transgender then they are automatically become enough evidence to arrest. their person told me that they've been arrested and they had been doing nothing but and they had friends arrested doing nothing other than being in the community and what about this and the crimes against nature law which is you know specifically gives harsher punishments for sodomy and oral sex how is that used to target the specific groups that you're talking about marginalize

of hurricane katrina where blackwater sent in initially one hundred eighty four men with helicopters m. four assault rifles to fan out into the night of new orleans and i never forget it tom i was i was standing on the street corner in the french quarter a few days after the flooding of the city began in two thousand and five and i was talking to two new york city police officers that had come down to volunteer to help it was him incredible role these volunteers who came to new orleans when the government was systematically neglecting them the bush administration and these guys pull up in a car and unmarked car they get out and they have wraparound sunglasses and they're wearing flak jackets and they have the assault rifles glock nine strapped to their legs and they come up to the to the new york police officers outside and they said where the rest of the blackwater guys and without skipping a beat the cops told them oh you know they're such and such location so the the guys get into their car and they drive away and i my head was kind of spinning and i said to the police officer bla

. >> seen the damage done by storms like katrina, ivan, dennis. it picked up cars, moved around, it looked similar to that. the damage here is a lot, worse. >> reporter: it could take months to recover. >> pam: president obama is expected to tour the areas in alabama tomorrow. >> reporter: storm tracker 44, scene showers passed to the norm. --north. we're not getting any rain but we're certainly getting wins. current wind speeds, fairly remarkable. sustained in the '20s. also along the coastline. guests are even stronger than this, they will stick with us all the way through the evening. 5:00 a.m., widespread wing desk in the '20s. we will continue with these conditions did the evening. not really dying down. we will start to see them died down overnight. 11:00, a few '20s up there. the extent into which they do or to not died down will really affect our temperatures for tomorrow morning. we stay breezy, temperatures were you see them will not drop off as much as winds are dying down to 10 mi. an hour. afternoon temperatures, warming just a little

editor of left turn magazine also author of the book here flood lines community and resistance from katrina to the jenna sex i thank you so much for joining me now we just saw how this law has been used to penalize prostitutes and i want to talk to you more about what was left out of that story which is how it's been used to penalize or target gays in transgenders. thank you for having me on to you for shining a light on this really important issue i talk to folks from the african-american gay and transgender community and almost everyone i spoke to had some kind of incident with the police where they had been targeted they were fighting the police were specifically hanging out outside the black gay and transgender and arresting people basically according to people i spoke with the feeling was the police after that if someone is black and gay or transgender then they're automatically become enough evidence to arrest. their person told me that they've been arrested and they had been doing nothing but and they had friends around doing nothing other than being in the community and what about t

no one will ever come clean of the katrina of the new orleans and the stinking house of the setting sun. but it's the black and the blue of the loving on the shoes, let alone a dime or water, america, you are always scotched earth in our mouth. always a rain of disaster of streams of our broken eyes. now the rags are the most turn. our pores the poorest that can be worn in the souls shop. now that all is lost and there is only nothing to lose. long live the courage and the poor. they begin to waiver. [applause]. >> vennetia. i was enranged at your body enettia. chicanery that cried out of an awfulor gast. slowly i found you should side streets where you practice a strolling stillness without any engine sounds and the skies turning on into color and then eternal magnificence of twilight, it accompanies your every move and theirs doubt about it, you are more adorable without the car wrapped around you, where you can be what you are. walking water. that gently laps. i have come to you this midnight and lane down in your black body with it's soft red blush and pulled the starkly blue cover

acevedo que está en la zona del desastre en alabama el peor desastre en estados unidos desde el huracán katrina. >>> haremos una pausa y al regresar qué puso en riesgo la salida del transbordador espacial endeavour inmigrantes miden una reforma mi habitación... lucia: ¡déjame ayudarte! lili: ¡quiero sentirme especial! lucia: ¡te pasas hermanita! lili: más en un castillo elegante... ¿ahora, eres la princesa de la casa? siempre lo he sido... y lo más importante para ellos. y de todas maneras llegó a la florida con su familia, visitó el lugar, estuvo visitando el lugar por un par de minutos. y tuvo la oportunidad de ver el transborda transbordaratlantis. ivis to la congresista gifford. >>> muchos quedaron sin ver el despegue del transbordador espacial endeavour 3.000 miembros de la prensa. es el último que hará el drans boro dardo espacial. la misión aplazada por un problema con uno de los calentadores que previene que partes de la nave se congelen en órbita. >>> el transbordador tiene como misión llevar un detector de partículas energéticas que ayudara a entender mejor como es e

>> he was a 31-year-old man father of four shortly after hurricane katrina, and we understand he was going to get goods taken from a dimestore. there were pots and pans and candles and stuff, and he was shot by a police officer near that dimestore. he sought help. his brother and a good samaritan and other person rushed him for help, and one thing that didn't go into the documentary that's worth saying now is this was on the west bank of the mississippi after hurricane katrina. it didn't flood there, but there was no power or water and the conditions were really rough. it was within new orleans proper, and the closest hospital was across the per rich line in the next one over, and there was a barricade there and they couldn't get through because the law enforcement was set up there, so this was a group of foir black men in a car, one of had just been shot, and the driver said we have four black men in the car, we're not going to get through into the largely white neighboring parrish, and we're going to the closest place to get help, and that's to this police encampment up the street

caller: y'all were talking about hurricane katrina. and when i think back on that, and everything, i lived in arkansas. and yesterday, a monday, was filled with tornado warnings all afternoon. we are thankful that we have a tornado siren. but to get back to hurricane cat, -- hurricane katrina, what i think about when i think about that is why did the government not reinforce those levies when they knew that they were not going to hold? plus, on top of that, the people that i blame mostly for some of the things that happened down there is the mayor who did not get the people out when they had buses sitting around to get the people out host: all right. we'll leave it there. guest: she is referring to the worst photo i've ever seen in a disaster response. that would be the parking lot full of the 100 or so buses that could have been used. unfortunately, when leaders or community officials issue warnings, some citizens just refuse to heed the warnings to evacuate, to leave their home. i fully understand that. but at the same time those lea

caller: y'all were talking about hurricane katrina. and when i think back on that, and everything, i lived in arkansas. and yesterday, a monday, was filled with tornado warnings all afternoon. we are thankful that we have a tornado siren. but to get back to hurricane cat, -- hurricane katrina, what i think about when i think about that is why did the government not reinforce those levies when they knew that they were not going to hold? plus, on top of that, the people that i blame mostly for some of the things that happened down there is the mayor who did not get the people out when they had buses sitting around to get the people out host: all right. we'll leave it there. guest: she is referring to the worst photo i've ever seen in a disaster response. that would be the parking lot full of the 100 or so buses that could have been used. unfortunately, when leaders or community officials issue warnings, some citizens just refuse to heed the warnings to evacuate, to leave their home. i fully understand that. but at the same time those lea

. >> the only thing were seeing the damage done, by katrina, ivan, dennis. the way the storm surge picked up crowds. the damage here is a lot worse. >> pam: this is damage from virginia. the storm tore up orders. beating people's belongings exposed. here is a look at some of the voters posted online. >> reporter: images everywhere, www.youtube.com, twitter, here's a video i saw on twitter. it shows the tornado from the third floor, will you can see it is just growing. 20 seconds later, it moves from the right-left. it looks like it's been growing. , here's a picture that i found on twitter, this is a small part. this building on the hill, reduced to a large pile of debris. the caption of the pitcher said " the tornado cut this brother across the highway ". cars abandoned on the side of the road -- house. >> reporter: here's a look there where the storms travel, you can see the storm that started here in texas last week. it has been making its way across the united states, to the point where they amid all the way to the east coast. taking a look here, you can

the american red cross says it has activated shelters across the southeast the most since hurricane katrina. nearly 3,000 people are using the facilities. >>> meteorologist mike nicco has been tracking these storms. >> storm is not as powerful as it was the last few days. you look at the watch boxes, yellow is severe thunderstorm watch and hail and 58 mile-an-hour winds faster. where they expect tornadoes in maryland in the coastal carolinas that is where tornadoes is possible. you see lighten marching off to the east, one tornado so far today, it's been in the southeastern part of north carolina but it is causing flight delays all up and down the eastern seaboard. where you see yellow, that is slight risk for more severe weather. so it's not over yet. more damage reports will be coming in. >>> if you want to find out how you can help, we have a link to the american red cross bay area chapter on our website at abc7news.com and click on see it on tv. >> we have breaking news from eldorado county where the husband and wife accused of kidnapping and raping jaycee dugard are expected to plead g

que la furia de la naturaleza ha dejado en seis estados, en la peor catÁstrofe despuÉs del huracÁn katrina. nunca antes en la historia del planeta han ocurrido tantos tornados .en un solo mes como los que han azotado a estados unidos en abril alabama es el estado mÁs afectado. >> gracias buenas noches, desde alabama esta es una de las zonas mÁs afectadas por estos mortales tornados que han devastado tÚ a la zona, hace apenas unas horas una niÑa que se estaba buscando fue hallado sin vida. otra vÍctima mÁs del mal tiempo. el tornado que tocÓ tierra se cobrÓ las vidas de 36 personas en esta ciudad, entre ellos los estudiantes de la universidad que tiene su sede aquÍ. las cÁmaras captaron uno de los tornados acercÁndose, los avisos se emitieron 24 minutos antes pero muchos no pudieron escapar ante el tamaÑo de los mismos. algunos de los muertos eran estudiantes que necesitaban en sus residencias estudiantiles fuera de la universidad dijo el gobernador quien declarÓ en estado de emergencia que tambiÉn fue declarado a nivel federal por el presidente.las labores de limpieza serÁn

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