captions paid for by nbc-universal television good morning. welcome to today on a sunday morning. i m lester holt in tuscaloosa, alabama. and i m jenna wolfe in new york. and, lester, the scope of the destruction from those tornadoes is just unimaginable. you ve been there for days now. what can you tell us about the situation this morning? the more time you spend here, jenna, you realize the defining patterns of these tornadoes. i m standing on the edge of one and you see perhaps a parking garage or trees in the background about a quarter mile, a little more, that s the width. this particular tornado went across tuscaloosa. so there s so much damage like this and then you go a few blocks and everything is fine. they re starting to get power n onto many of the affected neighborhoods in tuscaloosa. the death toll went up one overnight, up to 342. here in alabama alone at least 250 people were killed. this morning officials are racing against time trying to find the hun
good saturday everyone. i m craig melvin. those twisters ravaged the south. today the national weather service confirmed two more touched down in virginia bringing the total to 12. a twister that hit mississippi is classified as an e-5, the strongest rating for tornado damage. the death toll is now more than 340. 600 are still missing most in the alabama. chris clackham has the latest on the recovery efforts there. the massive relief effort to the help victims in alabama is matched only by the massive need. we have some of the greatest people that care about their neighbors and it was evident today. every place that we went, we saw so many volunteers. with a tattered flag recovered from the rubble of tornado ravaged tuscaloosa raised for inspiration, the mayor calls this a humanitarian crisis. although we have been ravaged beyond comprehension, we still remain that shining city on the hill because the world has seen our faith in god and our faith in each other. the