UPDATED @ 9:30 AM: CNN just reported that the death toll from the has hit 194 surpassed 200.
There's a lot of stunning video coming out of Alabama:
From the Birmingham News, which calls it a "Day of Devastation in Alabama":
Hardest hit was metro Birmingham, where at least 26 people were confirmed dead as of late Wednesday -- 13 in Walker County, 11 in Jefferson County, including a child whose parents have not been located, and two in St. Clair County.DC's been under a tornado watch for the past day. The latest update lasts until 3 PM. This morning, local news preempted the first half hour of the TODAY Show because of a tornado warning in Montgomery County, Maryland. (And, my friends mock me for being a weather geek, but when there's a situation, who do they call?)
"We are going to retrieve the bodies we can right now," said Jefferson County Chief Deputy Coroner Pat Curry. "In a situation like this, the first step is to make sure we have a positive ID."
Fifteen deaths were counted in Tuscaloosa County and more than 100 injuries.
"This is probably one of the biggest outbreaks in the Southeast in quite some time and that's saying something given the recent ones we've had," said Tom Bradshaw, National Weather Service meteorologist in the Southern Region headquarters in Fort Worth.
