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Video courtesy Associated Press
An aerial view from Lee County, Alabama shows some of the destruction from the deadly tornado that struck the area on Sunday. At least 23 people are known dead, including three children.
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Cindy Sanford, second from right, sifts through the debris with help from her brother, Tim Lancaster, from left, daughter, Kayla Causey, and stepfather, Michael Boutwell, while retrieving personal items after a tornado destroyed Sanford's home in Beauregard, Ala. on Tuesday.
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Debris is scattered after a tornado blew a home off its foundation in Beauregard, Ala. on Tuesday.
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Cindy Sanford directs family members helping her sift through the debris while retrieving personal items after a tornado destroyed her home in Beauregard, Ala. on Tuesday.
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Kayla Causey sifts through the debris while helping her mother retrieve personal items after a tornado destroyed her home in Beauregard, Ala. on Tuesday.
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Cindy Sanford, center, sifts through the debris with help from her brother, Tim Lancaster, left, and stepfather, Michael Boutwell, while retrieving personal items after a tornado destroyed her home in Beauregard, Ala. on Tuesday.
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What's left of Cindy Sanford's home stands behind her after a tornado blew it off the foundation in Beauregard, Ala. on Tuesday. Sanford left her home with her grandson moments before the tornado hit and took shelter at a nearby church.
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Cindy Sanford sifts through the debris while retrieving personal items after a tornado destroyed her home in Beauregard, Ala. on Tuesday.
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Michael Boutwell sifts through the debris while helping his stepdaughter retrieve personal items after a tornado destroyed her home in Beauregard, Ala. on Tuesday.
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Tim Lancaster, center, sifts through the debris while helping his sister retrieve personal items after a tornado destroyed her home in Beauregard, Ala. on Tuesday.
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Crews cleanup the debris in a neighborhood devastated by a tornado in Beauregard, Ala. on Tuesday.
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Crews cleanup the debris in a neighborhood devastated by a tornado in Beauregard, Ala. on Tuesday.
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A firefighter searches the debris in a neighborhood devastated by a tornado in Beauregard, Ala. on Tuesday.
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A firefighter takes a break from searching a neighborhood devastated by a tornado in Beauregard, Ala. on Tuesday.
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Residents sift through the damage to their home in the aftermath of a tornado in Beauregard, Ala. on Monday.
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Workers tend to a downed utility pole in a neighborhood devastated by a tornado in Beauregard, Ala. on Tuesday.
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A firefighter takes a break from searching a neighborhood devastated by a tornado in Beauregard, Ala. on Tuesday.
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Debris sits on the side of a road in a neighborhood devastated by a tornado in Beauregard, Ala. on Tuesday.
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Carol Dean, right, is embraced by David Theo Dean as they sift through the debris of the home Carol shared her husband and David's father, David Wayne Dean, who died when a tornado destroyed the house in Beauregard, Ala. on Monday. "He was my wedding gift," said Dean of her husband whom she married three years ago. "He was one in a million. He'd send me flowers to work just to let me know he loved me. He'd send me some of the biggest strawberries in the world. I'm not going to be the same."
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Carol Dean holds a note her husband, David Wayne Dean, received from his daughter on Father's Day as she sifts through the rubble of the home the couple shared the day after her David died when a tornado hit in Beauregard, Ala. on Monday.
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Trey Capps looks over the rubble of his parents' home and the house where he grew up the day after a tornado hit Beauregard, Ala. on Monday.
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Shaun Capps sifts through the rubble of his parents' home and the house where he grew up the day after a tornado hit Beauregard, Ala. on Monday.
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A television news reporter stands in the distance of a debris field the day after a tornado hit Beauregard, Ala., Monday, March 4, 2019. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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A damaged car is seen the day after a tornado hit Beauregard, Ala. on Monday.
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A debris field is seen the day after a tornado hit Beauregard, Ala., on Monday.
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A debris field is seen the day after a tornado hit Beauregard, Ala. on Monday.
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Dorothy Gubich, left, helps Carol Dean sift through the rubble of the home she shared with her husband, David Wayne Dean, who died after a tornado destroyed the house a day earlier in Beauregard, Ala. on Monday.
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A wedding photo of Carol Dean and David Wayne Dean sits in a pile of personal items Carol Dean recovered while sifting through the debris after a tornado destroyed their home a day earlier killing her husband in Beauregard, Ala. on Monday "He was my wedding gift," said Dean of her husband whom she married three years ago. "He was one in a million. He'd send me flowers to work just to let me know he loved me. He'd send me some of the biggest strawberries in the world. I'm not going to be the same."
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A damaged home sits along a road lined with downed trees the day after a tornado hit Beauregard, Ala. on Monday.
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Lawanda Anderson holds her 18-month-old granddaughter, Madilyn, as family members sift through the debris of the home belonging to David Wayne Dean, who died when a tornado destroyed the house in Beauregard, Ala. on Monday.
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Debris from a home stands in the background as a photo of what the house used to look like stands with other items found in the rubble from a tornado in Beauregard, Ala. on Monday.
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Granadas Baker, left, and son Granadas Jr. 18, right, retrieve personal items from the damaged home where they survived a tornado a day earlier in Beauregard, Ala. on Monday.
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Kiara Slater carries out personal items from her parents' damaged home where they survived a tornado a day earlier in Beauregard, Ala. on Monday.
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Cameron Baker, 11, looks into his room where a tree lays while retrieving personal items from the damaged home where he survived a tornado a day earlier with his family in Beauregard, Ala. on Monday.
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Shiraka Baker, left, passes a photo of her son to her daughter, Kiara Slater, while retrieving personal items from her damaged home where she survived a tornado a day earlier in Beauregard, Ala. on Monday.
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Granadas Baker, second from left, passes a family photo to his daughter Kiara Slater, left, while holding up an unsteady wall with son Granadas Jr. 18, right, as his other son Cameron, 11, looks on while retrieving personal items from the damaged home where they survived a tornado a day earlier in Beauregard, Ala. on Monday.
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First responders walk through a neighborhood heavily damaged by a tornado a day earlier in Beauregard, Ala. on Monday.
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K-9 emergency personnel work in storm damaged areas on Lee County Road 166 on Monday in Beauregard, Ala., following a powerful storm system including a tornado Sunday.
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Destruction is seen from tornadoes that came through last night, killing multiple people, in Lee County, Ala. on Monday.
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Destruction is seen from tornadoes that came through last night, killing multiple people, in Lee County, Ala. on Monday.
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Destruction is seen from tornadoes that came through last night, killing multiple people, in Lee County, Ala. on Monday.
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Dozens of volunteers help sort donated supplies pouring in from the community and local businesses at the Providence Baptist Church for those affected in nearby Beauregard a day after a tornado on Monday in Opelika, Ala.
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Residents of Talbotton, Ga. pray together outside a home destroyed by a tornado the day after storms battered Alabama and Georgia on Monday.