months ago. a lot to cover, alisyn, hope you are doing well. alisyn: martha will cover her coverage from london. president obama will visit survivors today. they continue their heartbreaking search for missing loved ones and whatever else they can find of their scattered lives. >> if i was going to put pieces of my life back together. small men ra. it's days pointing. >> i never thought it would happen to me. we only had a moment to get to the basement. you see what happened. you can see what can happen in 60 seconds. it will never be the same. it never will be. bill: over in 60 seconds. when they looked up, there was only sky above them. mike tobin is in smithville, mississippi. let's start with rick reichmuth in tuscaloosa, alabama, that was arguably hit harder than any other location. >> reporter: 210 fatalities in alabama alone. we expect that number to change. you were just saying earlier how the town much tuscaloosa gone and leveled. when you get this have you from up here as far as you can see everything has been destroyed. that cuts down through the center of the commercial area where a lot of the students from the university of alabama hang out. all of the businesses there have been completely destroyed. obviously businesses and people's homes and lives. i have got randy brown whose home behind us was destroyed. you weren't home at the time the tornado hit, but the family was. >> my home. mother and kids and stuff, they were at the house and i was on my way to the house. as soon as i got there, i was just trying to come to the window to see if i could hear anybody asking for help or anything. >> reporter: everybody was okay even those house was destroyed. >> everybody made it out of the house fine. my mom, she just had scratches stan scrapes on her leg. but everybody made it out. but like the house was just completely just devastated. report there are describe to me what the scene was like after the tornado happened. the chaos i imagine around the neighborhood. >> cars and stiff was all on fire, and a lot of trees and stuff down in the road. i had to crawl over all type of stuff, coming up the road there. i had to crawl over cars and power lines and like the sewer pipes was just squirting out water everywhere. >> reporter: where do you go next from here? >> we go to norfolk across the bridge with our family members there. so we just going to stay with them for now and just try to get what things we can get. >> that's what a lot of people are doing, sifting through all of this and seeing if there is anything they can salvage and stake with them to the next place they have to go. his story, that gentleman you are talk toition one of tens of thousands we are following through several different states. alisyn: basstates. alisyn: the president will tour the devastated areas and meet with storm victims. jonathan serrie is in concord, alabama. that's 30 miles away from birmingham. >> reporter: you can see the destruction behind me in concord, a small unincorporated community a close knit community, much of it destroyed. much of the damage from the top of that hill to where i'm stand. a total of 6 confirmed fatalities. robbie miller is the local fire chief. give us an idea of the extent of the damage. any early estimates? >> it's hard to tell the estimates at this time. we have the destruction of two communities. subdivisions on each side of the river road and the area of pinewood avenue. at this time we don't have any kind of dollar amount as to how much destruction we actually have. >> what about in terms of the number of houses affected? are we talking dozens, hundreds? >> i would say we are talking hundreds. >> reporter: the sheriff's office is bringing cadaver dogs. do you expect the death toll to increase or are you just doing your due diligence and hoping no bodies are found. >> mobile fire rescue has their dogs here and given another sweep to the area. >> reporter: best of luck to you and the folks of this community. the damage is widespread. it's hard to wrap your hands around it. amazingly, if the death toll in this community stays at 6, it will be amazing how many people could survive a tornado this powerful. alisyn: look at that land scape behind you is haunting. thanks so much for that report. meanwhile a powerful storm ripping through the outskirts of fort worth, texas. the horses and calculate were spared. but just about everything else took a beating. the storm peeling off the roofs of the garage and barn and shredding many trees to pieces. they look like match sticks, just tossed around. the form packing winds up to 110 miles an hour. people fearing for their lives took sanctuary in a baptist church. >> it sounded like a big train. >> there were two tornadoes that went through. >> they even took a couple cushions and put over them in case the glass spread over them. alisyn: miraculously no reports of injuries there. bill: gas prices up again this morning. an average gallon of regular $3.91 across the country. stuart varney of the fox business network. where do you see this hurting us? >> reporter: you have got $4 gas for the majority of people who drive in america. it's showing up in the polls. it's showing up in slower growth for the overtall economy and the value of our dollar, the currency just keeps on falling. that means even higher oil prices in the immediate future and even higher gas prices in the immediate future. bill: they are charge a fuel charge across the country. the fox polling late last night concludes this. what best describes the nation's economy today. 38% believe we are in a recession and it could get worse. only 44% say recession getting better. >> reporter: that's gas prices. you ask them what they think of the economy. they will tell you $4 a gallon is just terrible. bill: we also asked, how do you feel about the financial future of america. 52% say concerned, but not scared. about 28%, less than a third say they are scared. >> reporter: i think that's debt. by now a lot of people know our currency keeps going down and down and down. i think that worry about the future, that particular question refers to our debt problem and dollar problem. bill: how did you feel looking back in your homeland today? >> reporter: i'll tell you the truth. i had tears in myees. i am a hopeless low man particular, the sight of two fine young people out there telling the world we love each other and we are going to face the world together. the future king of england. i'm sorry, i did have tears in my eyes. bill: that's sweet. i'm happy for you. >> reporter: i'm a hard-bitten financial guy. but i thought it was great. bill: have a great weekend. stuart varney. alisyn: a fox news alert. we need to tell you about the unrest happening in syria. we are told thousands of syrians have taken to the streets in the capital of damascus and syrian security forces have opened fire on demonstrators there. it is a bad day in syria. thousands of people protesting the government of president asaad and his security forces not taking kindly to this. they are opening fire. this is obviously some of the worst unrest they have seen to date in an area that has been particularly turbulent. we'll bring you this throughout the morning. the republicans field is still wide open for the 2012 white house race. which one of these 6 republicans will run against the president. we have the brand-new fox news poll numbers. bill: a lot has not been talked about. there has been a deadly terror attack killing western tourists. a suicide bomber in a place you would not expect. >> fear. no other way to describe it. but i guarantee you it is. we lost everything. still blessed to have my life to be here. 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[ male announcer ] if you can't afford your medication, astra-zeneca may be able to help. alisyn: can you imagine being up close and personal with a monster deadly twister? we have video when a storm chaser drove toward the deadly tornado. check this out. that's obviously a huge funnel cloud destroying everything in its path. the storm chaser who shot that video is andy gabriel. you study tornado for a living. you say in your life you have seen 150 of them basically close up. what was different about this one when you saw it? >> this one was extremely powerful. it started rotating extremely fast immediately after it touched down. it grew in size very rapidly. the rotation was some of the strongest i have ever seen. it was the first of many strong tornadoes on that day. alisyn: this was a massive tornado, a deadly tornado. but you say you weren't scared taws were driving towards it. why not? >> i had a pretty good indication where it was going to go so i felt safe at that point. alisyn: i know your goal is to get as close to them as possible. but you said you were certain the tornado wasn't going to overtake you. >> with the technology we have available to us. i generally know whether they are going to shift. when a storm is moving at 60 miles an hour in one direction it's generally pretty easy to tell it's going to keep on that course when it's moving that speed. alisyn: could you tell this would be a deadly tornado? >> you never know that. you always hope it's not. as storm chasers we don't want to see damage. we are not damage chairs. we want to see the storm and the tornado. we prefer it when it's in an open field in kansas. i'm seeing the damage in tuscaloosa for the first time, and this is devastating. alisyn: it sure is. andy gabrielson, we appreciate you sharing your video with us. and we encourage everyone not to follow your lead and to take cover when they see a storm approaching like that. >> thanks for having me. bill: getting this out of northwestern africa. a suicide bomber targeting tourists. the country temperatures official news agency saying 16 people dead in a tear rift attack. the explosion hitting a cafe popular with tourists in the town of marikesh. in the meantime back at home calling in the national guard. floodwaters from rising in the state of illinois and authorities keeping a close watch on all of the levees. we'll take you there live to see what the next disaster may potentially bring us. alisyn: amazing pictures from the southern storm coming in from viewers. this is just outside of chattanooga, tennessee. mississippi governor haley barber will join us. if you have any pictures or video we want to give you have a reminder. don't ever put yourself in danger. but if you have them send them to foxnews.com/you report. we would love to see them. okay, team! after age 40, we can start losing muscle -- 8% every 10 years. wow. wow. but you can help fight muscle loss with exercise and ensure muscle health. i've got revigor. what's revigor? it's the amino acid metabolite, hmb to help rebuild muscle and strength naturally lost over time. 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