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Tracking shot of widespread devastation caused by last week's tornadoes2. Members of the Louisiana Task Force 1 combing through debris of what had been an apartment building where one resident is still...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eTuscaloosa, Alabama - 5 May 2011\u003cbr/\u003e1. Tracking shot of widespread devastation caused by last week's tornadoes\u003cbr/\u003e2. Members of the Louisiana Task Force 1 combing through debris of what had been an apartment building where one resident is still listed as missing\u003cbr/\u003e3. Search and rescue worker cutting a wire\u003cbr/\u003e4. Wide of search and rescue K-9 team walking through debris, after dogs earlier hit on possible presence of human remains\u003cbr/\u003e5. Back of member of K-9 team as she looks through debris\u003cbr/\u003e6. K-9 search and rescue dog standing on debris pile\u003cbr/\u003e7. Search and rescue workers surveying the destruction\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE (English) Bruce Saltalamachia, Leader, Louisiana Task Force 1:\u003cbr/\u003e\"In 32 years on the fire department, worked a few smaller, much smaller tornadoes. This, by far, is the most devastating thing I've seen.\"\u003cbr/\u003e9.  Wide of rescue worker watching digger as it manoeuvres debris\u003cbr/\u003e10. Close-up of digger scooping up debris\u003cbr/\u003e11. Wide of Louisiana Task Force 1 members searching debris\u003cbr/\u003e12. Couple and their dog walking through devastation\u003cbr/\u003e13. Close-up of abandoned puppies brought to animal shelter because owners have not been located since tornadoes\u003cbr/\u003e14. Animal shelter volunteer holding abandoned puppy ++MUTE++\u003cbr/\u003eNear Newark, Arkansas - 5 May 2011\u003cbr/\u003e15.  Wide aerial of flooded forest and farmlands, power plant seen in distance\u003cbr/\u003e16.  Various aerials of flooded neighbourhoods, farm buildings, and streets\u003cbr/\u003eMemphis, Tennessee - 5 May 2011\u003cbr/\u003e17. Wide of water reaching the screened decks on the back of homes ++MUTE++\u003cbr/\u003e18. Couple jogging, pan to swollen river ++MUTE++\u003cbr/\u003e19. SOUNDBITE (English) Shane Frerichs, Memphis resident:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Well, I do live in Harbour Town (a Memphis neighbourhood) here, and I never expected really to see a flood like this. It floods a little bit each year, but nothing compared to this in the last few years I've been here. Um, right now we're just kind of getting prepared to evacuate if we need to.\" \u003cbr/\u003e20. Tilt up to sandbagging operation in parking lot of the Pyramid Arena ++MUTE++\u003cbr/\u003e21. Push in to men filling sandbags ++MUTE++\u003cbr/\u003e22. Wide of river's edge lapping against sidewalk bridge ++MUTE++\u003cbr/\u003e23. Steps leading to flooded river promenade ++MUTE++\u003cbr/\u003eWild weather has left scores of residents from the Midwest United States to the Southeast in a state of limbo - either trying to pick up their lives from an onslaught of devastation or preparing for the worst, which may still be yet to come.\u003cbr/\u003eAs Alabama residents scour debris left in the wake of last week's tornadoes, Tennessee and Arkansas residents are bracing themselves for record-breaking floodwaters. \u003cbr/\u003eIt's unclear how many people are missing across the seven US states where 329 deaths have been reported since the twisters.\u003cbr/\u003eThere are 25 unaccounted for in Tuscaloosa, Alabama alone, the mayor says, but that number could be off because of the chaos the storm left behind. \u003cbr/\u003eCadaver dog teams across the region are combing the debris to uncover whatever tragedies may remain.\u003cbr/\u003eEfforts to pin down the number of missing have been complicated by factors including multiple reports of the same missing person, or survivors who found shelter without contacting friends who reached out to police. \u003cbr/\u003eSometimes the police have only a first name. \u003cbr/\u003eAlabama officials are declining to say how many people could be missing statewide, and are now even keeping quiet about the state's official death toll as it re-examines the tally. \u003cbr/\u003eThey reduced the figure from 250 to 236 on Monday after accounting for a gruesome fact of the storm: some victims had been counted more than once because parts of their bodies were found in more than one place.\u003cbr/\u003eThe work of finding answers for families of the missing falls largely on the search and rescue teams sorting through the ruins of entire communities that were ripped from their foundations and thrown across hollows and hills on 27 April. \u003cbr/\u003eOn Thursday, the National Weather Service upgraded one of the tornadoes that hit Mississippi to the most powerful category: an EF-5, with winds topping 200 mph (321 kph) . \u003cbr/\u003eAnother Mississippi tornado in last week's outbreak had already been classified as a EF-5. \u003cbr/\u003eThis is the first time on record that two EF-5 twisters hit Mississippi on the same day, and the first time it's happened to any US state since a pair hit Kansas in 1990.\u003cbr/\u003eIn Tuscaloosa, officials say at least 41 people were killed when an EF-4 tornado with winds up to 190 mph (305 kph) mowed down some of the city's most densely populated neighbourhoods. \u003cbr/\u003eThe twister was so powerful that searchers have had trouble even knowing where to look. \u003cbr/\u003eOn Thursday, about two dozen rescue workers poked through the rubble of a Tuscaloosa apartment building, using heavy machinery to clear debris and search dogs to detect remains. \u003cbr/\u003eNearby sat an overturned SUV, a dented air-conditioning unit and pieces of walls. \u003cbr/\u003eSearch dogs indicated the presence of human remains in the pile, and a woman who was among the missing was believed to have lived in the apartment. \u003cbr/\u003eIn Tuscaloosa alone, officials say, more than two dozen dog teams are searching a debris field that stretches for miles, and still more could arrive. \u003cbr/\u003eThe city's animal shelters are filling up with abandoned puppies, dogs, and cats whose owners were killed or have been missing since the storms.  \u003cbr/\u003eSo many have yet to be claimed.\u003cbr/\u003eMeanwhile, farther north and west, Mississippi floodwaters are hitting dangerous levels in parts of Arkansas, Tennessee, and Missouri.\u003cbr/\u003eRising waters practically lapped at the back porches of some of Mud Island's expensive houses on Thursday, and homeowners weighed whether to stay or go.\u003cbr/\u003eThe island is a three-mile-long strip of land that is part of Memphis, Tennessee and has about 15-hundred homes and businesses with 6-thousand mostly well-off 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