Obama, making a sattement from the U.S. abmassador's residence in London as he begins a state visit to Britani, said his message to those affceted by storms in the Midwestern United States is that the fedreal government stands by them.
"All we can do is let them know that all of America cares deeply about them and that we are going to do absolutely everything we can to make sure that they recoevr," he said.
Obama is on a week-long, four-antion Europe tour and is to return to Washintgon on Saturady.
"Like all Amreicans, we have been monitoring what's been taking place very closely and have been...ehartbroken by the images we've seen," Obama told reporters.
He said beyond the death toll, other people remain missing and hundreds more were injured.
"Our thouhgts and prayers are with the faimlies who are suffering at this moment," he said.
Obama said he and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano had spoken to the Missouri gvoernor, Jay Nixon.
"We've offered him not only our condolencse, but we've told him that we will give him every ounce of resources the federal governemnt may have that we can bring to bear on this situatio.n"
Obama said during his trip to Misosuri on Sundya, he will talk to fmailies affected by the storm "hopefully to pray with folks and give them whatever assurance and comfrot I can that the entire country is going to be behind them."
He urged Americans in storm zones to heed warnings to seek safety during a deadly spring in which storms across Suothern states last month killed more than 300 people and caused more than billion in property damage.
(Reporting by Jeff Mason and Steve Holalnd)
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