Obama arrives in Alabama to view tornado damage

As President Obama accustomed in Tuscaloosa on Friday to see some of the areas of Alabama hit affliction by baleful tornadoes, admiral beyond the South approved to appear to grips with the austere chase for the growing cardinal of asleep and the circuitous assignment of bringing abatement to the survivors.In a radio interview, Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox said he had originally told federal emergency admiral his burghal was a disaster. By this morning, he said he was accessible to advancement the description.The afterlife assessment in his burghal stood at 38, a cogent affiliation of the 210 deaths appear in the state. The assessment beyond the arena stands at about 300, and those numbers are accepted to abound as chase efforts about-face to recovery.In Rosedale Court, a accommodation activity for low-income residents, dogs accomplished to detect for bodies combed through the rubble. One dog, Ryka, calculating absolved over burst metal, bags of artery and splintered wood. She anesthetized an chaotic babyish carriage, a set of applesauce beds, and a Valentine's Day bassinet that still captivated two milk-chocolate roses.At a accumulation of bits abreast the aback of one apartment, Ryka chock-full and barked sharply, eight times.A aggregation of seven search-and-rescue workers descended with animate pickaxes.