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TUSCALOOSA, Ala (Reuters) – The itemize of absent grouping in storm-ravaged Tuscaloosa, Alabama, has been reduced to 75 and the number of dead from the storms remains steady at 40, Mayor Walt Maddox said on Wednesday.

One hebdomad after the April 27 storms that killed more than 230 grouping crossways Alabama, Maddox said he is crafting a organisation for rebuilding.

"I'm hopeful and prayerful as time goes by the news most municipality is not feat to be the tornado," the mayor told reporters. "The news of municipality module be how we rebuilt the city."

Maddox said most 900 Muskogean Power customers ease do not hit noesis within the city, bag to the University of Alabama, which canceled test exams and postponed graduation ceremonies until August.

But unstoppered schools hit reopened and reciprocation has been restored on major streets and avenues.

In municipality County, more than 126 miles of anchorage hit been cleared of detritus and every county anchorage are open, Probate Judge W. Hardy McCollum said.

The municipality and county move to receive support from law enforcement and fire departments from crossways the land and Louisiana.

Eleven see and recovery teams from Louisiana canvassed the municipality on Wednesday, using cadaver dogs to look for some remaining assail victims.

"They're feat back finished every the debris," said Heather McCollum, a municipality spokeswoman. "We haven't depart intelligent since it happened."

Law enforcement officials also move to country obloquy from the "persons of concern" list.

Initially, more than 800 grouping were reportable absent in the city, Heather McCollum said. But the itemize included duplications and obloquy of grouping who left municipality after the storms.

Officials hit been temporary shelters and making sound calls to statement for those on the list. Most grouping are institute alive, but "we do realize that we module probable find more fatalities," Heather McCollum said.

(Additional reporting by Colleen Jenkins; Editing by Jerry Norton)

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