My heart's broken. There's no way you can walk on these streets where I have grown up, and the 93,000 citizens that I represent, and see the pain in their eyes, the look of what has happened to us.
Mayor Maddox shares his emotional response to the devastation in his community.
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My heart's broken. There's no way you -- there's no way you can walk on these streets where our -- where we -- where I have grown up, and the 93,000 citizens that I represent, and see the pain in their eyes, the look of what has happened…
The main thing we will need from the federal government is reimbursement. This is going to cost the city tens of millions of dollars in a very tough economic time.
It's going to be very extensive. We're talking hundreds of millions of dollars within the city itself. We now have 38 confirmed fatalities, 900 reported injuries as a direct result of yesterday's tornado and we still have over 40,000 homes…
But I am confident. I believe that we will come out of this stronger and a new day will dawn for the city of Tuscaloosa.
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