<p>Americans in the southern and eastern US braced for more violent weather today after a string of tornadoes and other storms killed at least 29 people, news reports said.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Some 75 million people were at risk from storms that could unleash hail, winds and twisters on the affected regions, according to the National Weather Service.<br /><br />The toll from two days of violent weather reached at least 29 yesterday in at least six states, CNN and other media reported.<br /><br />After violent weather on Sunday that killed 17, most of them in Arkansas, the new deaths included eight in Mississippi on Monday, CNN reported, quoting the state emergency management agency.<br /><br />The governors of Alabama and Georgia declared state-wide emergencies.<br /><br />In the Mississippi town of Louisville, the storm snapped trees in half and stripped them of their branches. Sheet metal twisted itself around road signs and tree trunks, CBS News reported.<br /><br />Mississippi Senator Giles Ward hunkered down in a bathroom with his wife, four other family members and their dog Monday as a tornado destroyed his two-story brick house and flipped his son-in-law's SUV upside down.<br /><br />"For about 30 seconds, it was unbelievable," Ward said. "It's about as awful as anything we've gone through," the network quoted Ward as saying.<br /><br />In the hardest-hit parts of Arkansas, emergency crews intensified their search for survivors of Sunday's twisters.<br /><br />Dozens of Arkansas National Guard troops were assisting local authorities with medical evacuations, fresh water deliveries and search and rescue operations.<br /><br />In the town of Vilonia, police chief Brad McNew said the town of 4,000 had been rendered unrecognisable.<br /><br />"It's houses completely down to the foundations," he told NBC television.<br /><br />Rescuers used searchlights in blacked-out areas Sunday night, sifting through mountains of rubble in the hopes of finding someone alive.<br /><br />The Arkansas Department of Emergency Management said 14 people had been killed in the state.<br /><br />McNew said more would have been killed if not for emergency sirens that warned people the twister was about to hit.<br /></p>
<p>Americans in the southern and eastern US braced for more violent weather today after a string of tornadoes and other storms killed at least 29 people, news reports said.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Some 75 million people were at risk from storms that could unleash hail, winds and twisters on the affected regions, according to the National Weather Service.<br /><br />The toll from two days of violent weather reached at least 29 yesterday in at least six states, CNN and other media reported.<br /><br />After violent weather on Sunday that killed 17, most of them in Arkansas, the new deaths included eight in Mississippi on Monday, CNN reported, quoting the state emergency management agency.<br /><br />The governors of Alabama and Georgia declared state-wide emergencies.<br /><br />In the Mississippi town of Louisville, the storm snapped trees in half and stripped them of their branches. Sheet metal twisted itself around road signs and tree trunks, CBS News reported.<br /><br />Mississippi Senator Giles Ward hunkered down in a bathroom with his wife, four other family members and their dog Monday as a tornado destroyed his two-story brick house and flipped his son-in-law's SUV upside down.<br /><br />"For about 30 seconds, it was unbelievable," Ward said. "It's about as awful as anything we've gone through," the network quoted Ward as saying.<br /><br />In the hardest-hit parts of Arkansas, emergency crews intensified their search for survivors of Sunday's twisters.<br /><br />Dozens of Arkansas National Guard troops were assisting local authorities with medical evacuations, fresh water deliveries and search and rescue operations.<br /><br />In the town of Vilonia, police chief Brad McNew said the town of 4,000 had been rendered unrecognisable.<br /><br />"It's houses completely down to the foundations," he told NBC television.<br /><br />Rescuers used searchlights in blacked-out areas Sunday night, sifting through mountains of rubble in the hopes of finding someone alive.<br /><br />The Arkansas Department of Emergency Management said 14 people had been killed in the state.<br /><br />McNew said more would have been killed if not for emergency sirens that warned people the twister was about to hit.<br /></p>