Tornadoes kill 23 in southern US state

Rescuers in Alabama were set to resume search operations yesterday after at least two tornadoes killed 23 people, uprooted trees and caused "catastrophic" damage to buildings and roads in the southern US state. "The devastation is incredible," Lee County Sheriff Jay Jones told the local CBS affiliate late Sunday. "I cannot recall at least in the last 50 years... a situation where we have had this loss of life that we experienced today," he said.