The death toll from a series of tornadoes in the Midwest and South has risen to least 28. The storms killed at least 11 people in Mississippi, Tennessee and Alabama, a day after at least 17 were killed, almost all of them in Arkansas. Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe described the wreckage.

Gov. Mike Beebe: “The devastation, in terms of the power of it, may be as big as I’ve ever seen. We’ve seen steel girders, huge steel I-beam-type girders, twisted and torn completely out of the cement footing and lifted completely out of the ground. You can look at the trees and see how they’ve been stripped of leaves to see the force and the power of this one. Then there are houses and businesses that are just destroyed. Lots of them.”