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Oklahoma tornado ‘Our hearts are broken. This is bigger than anything I’ve ever seen. It’s huge. It’s horrific’
I saw that line earlier from the sky, even on an open field close to where the tornado first touched down on Monday afternoon. It is the edge of the funnel's fist. One corner of the pasture is strafed a darker green than the rest, like the turned corner of a hanky. Suddenly all the twister's path through the subdivisions of Moore comes into view. From above, it resembles the scar of ...
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Oklahoma governor establishes disaster relief fund
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin has established a disaster relief fund to help with the long-term medical, emotional and educational needs of victims of tornados that have ravaged central Oklahoma in recent ...
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Oklahoma state buildings close over water concerns
Day says low water pressure affected her agency's ability to keep restrooms open throughout the Capitol complex. Officials say some personnel remained on the job to provide essential services. Others were on on-call during normal working ...
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Oklahoma Tornado News Gov. Mary Fallin Says State Will Rebuild
MOORE, Okla. - The search for survivors and the dead is nearly complete in the Oklahoma City suburb that was smashed by a mammoth tornado, the fire chief said Tuesday. Gary Bird said he's "98 percent sure" there are no more survivors or bodies to recover under the rubble in Moore, a community of 56,000 people. His comments came after emergency crews spent much of the day ...
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Warren Movie Theater In Moore Oklahoma Becomes Makeshift Morgue And Volunteer Site
Warren theater in Moore, Okla. , often the place where fictional heroes perform great deeds onscreen, produced real-life heroes in the wake of Monday's deadly tornado. After staff and moviegoers safely rode out the twister in the hallways, IMAX manager Alex Ansari tried to calm those wandering the devastation outside ...
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Oklahoma Tornado Captured By Guy Sticking His Hand Out of His Shelter
incredible videos to come out of Monday’s massive tornado that hit the Moore, Oklahoma area. This fits the bill, but it comes with a twist. This guy filmed the tornado as it ...
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Naturally The Westboro Baptist Church Trolls Oklahoma Tornado Victims
In what may be one of the most non-surprising ';news'; of the year, members of the Westboro Baptist Church, professional life trolls that they are, have blamed the Oklahoma tornado ...
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PHOTO Plaza Towers before and after
MOORE, Okla. – This is a before and after photo of Plaza Towers Elementary School, which sustained some of the most damage. Seventy-fivestudents and faculty took refuge in the school when the storm hit the area. First responders confirmed that seven children died at that ...
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Devastation and sadness in tornado-weary suburb of Moore Oklahoma
President Obama has tried to reassure the people of Moore in Oklahoma that the United States will stand by them with help on the ground ';for as long as it takes'; after the calamity of the tornado on Monday, May 20. Amid the devastation, many survivors are said to be bewildered and stunned – almost unable to take in the destruction to their homes, their schools, their lives. ...
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Oklahoma tornado Teachers emerge as heroes
A parent rushes to embrace her child as a teacher escorts her away from Briarwood Elementary school after a tornado destroyed the school in south Oklahoma City, Okla, on May 20, ...
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Oklahoma tornados strength upgraded to rare EF5
MOORE, Okla. The National Weather Service's damage survey found that the monster tornado that wreaked havoc on an Oklahoma City suburb is the most powerful type of tornado there is: an EF5. According to the Enhanced Fujita scale and ...
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Fire chief says search almost complete in Oklahoma at least 24 killed
A teacher hugs a child at Briarwood Elementary school after a tornado destroyed the school in south Oklahoma City, Monday, May 20, 2013. A monstrous tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs, flattening entire neighborhoods with winds up to 200 mph, setting buildings on fire and landing a direct blow on an elementary ...
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Oakland Sacramento Sending Rescue Workers To Oklahoma Tornado Area
In this handout provided by the U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Soldiers and Airmen with the Oklahoma Army National Guard and the Oklahoma Air National Guard along with firefighters participate in recovery efforts after a tornado moved through on May 20, 2013 in Moore, Oklahoma. (Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Kendall James/U.S. Department of Defense via Getty ...
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Oklahoma staggered by storm of storms
By Erin McClam, Staff Writer, NBC News Emergency crews and National Guard troops in Oklahoma picked through neighborhoods without recognizable streets Tuesday in a grim, house-by-house search of the blasted-out husk of a city left behind by a ferocious tornado.Authorities lowered the death toll to 24, less than half the figure they gave in the initial chaos after the twister, but there was still ...
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NWS upgrades Oklahoma tornado to EF-5
A path of destruction is seen in the aftermath of a series of tornadoes in Moore, Oklahoma, May 21, 2013. On May 20 a series of tornadoes swept through severals towns south of Oklahoma City leaving a path of destruction and killing at least 24 people. UPI/J.P. ...
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Boulder residents heading to Oklahoma to help after devastating tornado
A Boulder volunteer plans to fly out to Oklahoma this afternoon to serve as a "disaster assessment manager" with the American Red Cross after a tornado swept through the state Monday, killing dozens and injuring more than 100 more. John Miller, a leadership volunteer from Boulder, is scheduled to fly to Oklahoma at noon to join other Red Cross workers already on the ground helping ...
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Coming attractions Movie plans postponed by tornado
As he waited he watched local weather reports at the bar, joking with staff that if there was a tornado they were probably in the safest building in town. As the tornado approached things got more serious. "At first they had everyone go downstairs and they were fine with that," Bieger said. "Then as it got more serious the manager was very adamant. He wanted everyone against the ...
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CORRECTED-Oklahoma tornado damage likely to exceed Joplin -commissioner
Tue May 21, 2013 5:26pm EDT (Corrects death toll from Joplin tornado to 161) MOORE, Oklahoma May 21 (Reuters) - The damage from Monday's tornado in a suburb of Oklahoma City is likely to exceed that caused by the 2011 twister in Joplin, Missouri, that killed 161 people, Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John Doak said. In an interview with Reuters after touring the area, Doak said that losses ...
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UPDATE 8-Whole neighborhoods razed by Oklahoma tornado that killed 24
Tue May 21, 2013 5:22pm EDT * Thousands left homeless in suburb of Oklahoma City * Thunder and lightning slows rescue work * Tornado death toll lowered to 24, another 237 injured (Adds tornado upgraded, insurance commissioner) By Carey Gillam and Ian Simpson MOORE, Okla., May 21 (Reuters) - Rescuers went building to building in search of victims and thousands of survivors were homeless on ...
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Former Coast family survives Oklahoma tornado underground
Steve and Robin Brown, along with their son, Caleb, all survived the killer tornado in Moore, Oklahoma in a very small underground shelter. (Photo source: ...
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Sadden by Death Destruction from Oklahoma Tornados Secretary-General Offers Condolences to Victims United Nations Assistance with Recovery Efforts
The Secretary-General was deeply saddened to hear of the death and destruction in Oklahoma City as a result of ...
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Video Satellite imagery shows devastating storm system hitting Oklahoma
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) releases satellite images showing the massive storm system that hit Oklahoma on Monday. Rough Cut (no reporter ...
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Video Residents walk through a flattened Oklahoma neighbourhood
With nothing more than a smartphone, one man walks through a neighborhood in Moore, Okla. where homes have been reduced to rubble by a ...
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Weather service Okla. Tornado was EF5
Search and rescue crews with dogs went through smashed houses and crushed cars on Tuesday, looking for signs of life in the aftermath of the monster tornado that pulverized a vast swath of Oklahoma City's ...
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Oklahoma twister a top-of-the-scale EF-5
MOORE, Okla. -; The National Weather Service says the tornado that hit Moore, Okla., was a top-of-the-scale EF-5 twister with winds of at least 200 ...
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Oklahoma City's ambitious overhaul of downtown
Oklahoma City with her 550,000 residents in the city core and a further 700,000 in the wider metropolitan area is the largest urban area in the state and Oklahoma’s largest city. We are therefore the economic hub of the state, so Project 180 was always going to cause a significant amount of disruption.
When construction on the Devon Tower was first reported by Oklahoma City news media in October, 2009 many residents of the city waited in anticipation to see what the finished product would look like. The 50-story building, will be the new headquarters of Devon Energy, will be the tallest building in the city and will contain 1.8 million square feet of office space. It is a true substantiation of the city’s status as a commercial power hub. Read more
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