U.S. Storms' Death Toll Tops 300

The southern U.S. states face a massive clean-up operation after more than 160 twisters tore through the region.

The death toll of this week's tornado-spawning storm systems in the southern U.S. has now topped 305, making it the country's worst natural disaster in terms of victims since Hurricane Katrina. President Barack Obama will visit Tuscaloosa, Ala., today, where 36 people, including two University of Alabama students, were killed and entire neighbourhoods were obliterated. More than 160 tornadoes touched down across the southern states, claiming more than 200 lives in Alabama, as well as victims in nearly every state in Dixie. Two-thousand National Guardsmen have been deployed to Alabama to begin cleaning up the devastation.