More than 60 tornadoes tear through North Carolina, 21, to kill the highest toll for all concerned States.
The Government stood ready to help, said a spokesman for the White House.
Governor Beverly Perdue said on NBC network's today show that she had never seen something like the devastation.
She said houses in the State as treated paper dolls had houses.
"The good news is that the tornados have left and things are brighter today in North Carolina," said Mrs. Perdue.
At the White House on Monday said spokesman Jay Carney of the Federal Emergency Management Agency was monitoring conditions.
"We have to support people on the ground assessment of the situation and established as necessary," he said.
Storms cut across a large swathe of the American South, East in Arkansas and Oklahoma sweep the killer on Thursday and Friday then through Mississippi and Alabama, and Virginia and North Carolina.
The storms that caused damage in the States of Texas and Georgia, moved across the Atlantic on Sunday.
Devastating destructionMore than 240 tornadoes were on reports of three days, including 62 in North Carolina, but the US national weather service of the final numbers might be lower because some tornadoes can more than once reported.
More than 60 tornadoes were in North Carolina, reported 21 deaths the officials confirmedThe North Carolina State Emergency Management Agency said it reported 23 deaths by Saturday's had storms, but local officials have only 21 confirmed.
Authorities in the city of Raleigh at an early stage were blocked Monday access to about 200 houses, a mobile home park, where three children had been killed during storms.
MS Perdue said, that it to tour hard-hit areas in three counties in the State on Monday planned.
She added that she had left the devastation that had seen them on Sunday in tears.
The Governor said she had contacted President Barack Obama, who promised his support, and, had the federal emergency workers were already deployed in the State.
"We have in North Carolina a tremendous relationship with our federal partners, and they have gone through so many times," she said.
"This is not a good deal." "The one bad thing is," she added.
MS Perdue said on Sunday, the number of tornadoes, the highest since 1984, 42 persons killed as tornadoes.Hailstones which were the grapefruit size as the storms swept through the region, causing flash floods and tornadoes reported.
Trees and power lines downed recovered in the vicinity of roads on Monday.
Most of the North Carolina confirmed 21 deaths occurred in two rural districts - 11 in Bertie and four in Bladen, about 70 miles (112 km) South of Raleigh.
In the community of Bladen County Ammon Audrey McKoy and her husband, Milton, experienced lift a tornado pigs and other animals in the sky, when the storm hit their mobile home community.
"It looked like the wizard of Oz," said Mrs McKoy.
Mr McKoy three corpses found nearby, after the storm, their curious mobile home, had passed.
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