The clean-up and recover efforts continue in Joplin, Mo. three days after an F5 tornado killed at least 125 people and destroyed 7 miles of property. New storms threatened the region on Tuesday night, killing 12 in Kansas, Arkansas, and…

Violent storms and tornadoes flattened towns and injured or killed people throughout the South on Thursday night. Alabama was the hardest hit as storms tore through Birmingham and Tuscaloosa. Casualties also mounted in Mississppi, Tennessee, Georgia, Virginia and Kentucky.