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Injured Moore School Teacher Tells Of Trying To Protect Students
MOORE, Oklahoma - Third-grade teacher Jennifer Doan's sternum and spine are fractured, and there are lacerations all over her body. CBS News reporter Vinita Nair says she can barely speak, but her memory of the tornado is crystal clear. "We told them to get down, there weren't any lights on and already and they were all scared," Jennifer Doan said. "I held my arm -- ...
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Rogers County Election Board Holds Off Certifying Sales Tax Election
CLAREMORE, Oklahoma - The Rogers County Election Board has voted to not certify results of a recent sales tax election after a resident filed a complaint alleging the county didn't give proper legal notice of the election. Voters in Rogers County approved a 1-cent sales tax extension on May 14, 2013 by a 58-percent to 42-percent margin. But a resident filed a challenge to the election ...
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Special event organized for Moore students at tornado-damaged schools
Organizers said all students and teachers of Plaza Towers Elementary are invited to Eastlake Elementary in Moore from 10 a.m. to noon on Thursday. Students and teachers of Briarwood Elementary are invited to Wayland Bonds Elementary from 10 a.m. to noon on ...
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Owners await return to Moore homes
MOORE, Okla. - Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management officials say they are unsure when people will be allowed back into their homes after hundreds were destroyed by a tornado in Moore Monday. Security is tight, with 49 checkpoints manned by law enforcement personnel from all over the state. "Only those authorized emergency responders will be allowed in to assist with this ongoing ...
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Oklahoma residents begin to return home after deadly tornado
Residents began returning home to their flattened Oklahoma town after a giant tornado killed at least 24 people, destroyed countless homes and reduced one elementary school almost entirely to rubble, killing seven children inside. Authorities said they were confident that all survivors and bodies had been ...
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Oklahoma Tornado More Victims Identified
The names of six more of the 24 people killed in the Oklahoma tornado disaster have been confirmed to Sky News. They were Hemant Bhonde, Kyle Davis, Sydney Angle, Megan Futrell, Case Futrell and Antonia Lee Candelaria. Nine-year-old Ja'Nae Hornsby was the first victim to be named. She was one of seven children who reportedly drowned at Plaza Towers elementary school in a pool of ...
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In pictures Nasa images of Oklahoma tornado reveal scale of storm
The images from space show the mammoth storm before and after it struck, along with views of the weather system that caused the tornado. The pictures reveal the sheer scale and power of the twister, while night time images show just how much damage was caused by the twister. The storm was classified as an F-4 tornado with wind speeds of between 166 to 200 mph, according to the National Weather ...
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Oklahoma Search and rescue expert from Oakland to aid in relief efforts
Dos residentes pasan caminando junto a un auto destruido mientras recorren el martes 21 de mayo de 2013 un vecindario de Moore, Oklahoma, devastado el lunes por un tornado. (Foto AP/Charlie ...
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I lost nearly everything in the 1999 Oklahoma tornado but I managed to rebuild
Oklahoma on 3 May 1999. It killed 45 people and caused an estimated $1.2bn in destruction. It damaged my home so badly that the insurance company called it a total loss. My wife and I were in our home when the monster twister hit. It was an experience that I'll never forget and that taught me several ...
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WVU baseball players spring into action in tornado-ravaged Oklahoma
Heavy wind and rain conspired so members of the West Virginia University baseball team couldn't see 30 feet during the storm that spawned a devastating tornado in Moore, ...
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Toby Keith on tornado “Big as any I’ve seen”
Toby Keith talking to KFOR He told KFOR-TV, ';This one’s as big as any one I’ve ever seen,'; referring to the massive EF5 twister that claimed 24 lives and caused widespread destruction. Keith is also reminding people not to forget the victims of the storm ...
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Blake Shelton NBC Organizing Benefit Concert for Oklahoma Tornado Victims
Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton at the 45th annual Country Music Awards in Las Vegas last month. Blake Shelton of "The Voice" and NBC are organizing a benefit concert for the victims of the unprecedented tornado in Oklahoma that left at least 24 people dead and thousands homeless in the town of Moore.The two-mile-wide tornado believed to be an EF-4 or EF-5 pulverized suburbs of ...
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Video Inside Moore Oklahoma devastation
Amid the rubble, families spoke to CBS News' Jeff Glor about the difficult decisions they had to make as the massive tornado struck Moore -- and the challenges they will confront as they take on the huge task of ...
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Video Oklahoma tornado Officials confident no one still missing or trapped
The National Weather Service says the tornado that devastated Oklahoma had winds above 200 miles per hour. The death toll stands at 24, including nine children. "CBS This Morning" co-host Norah O'Donnell reports from Moore, ...
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Focus in Oklahoma on cleanup helping displaced
By Erin McClam and Alastair Jamieson, NBC News Authorities in tornado-ravaged Oklahoma turned their attention Wednesday from the search for victims to the colossal tasks of cleaning up miles of wreckage and helping perhaps thousands of people who lost their homes in the storm.While they planned to keep looking, rescuers were increasingly confident that they had accounted for everyone killed or ...
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Oklahoma tornado Energy dodges a bullet
A devastating Oklahoma tornado left a trail of destruction Monday. How and why did the state's vast oil and gas infrastructure emerge seemingly unscathed from the Oklahoma ...
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LIVE Moore tornado recovery efforts continue
Follow live tornado recovery efforts and updates below. The following tweets and briefs are from reporters, state officials and residents in the Moore ...
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Local church heading to help Oklahoma tornado victims
Jefferson County church is collecting items and donations to help victims of the devastating tornado that struck in Oklahoma on Monday. Starting at 9 a.m. Tuesday morning, the River Christian Fellowship Church along Route 7 has been collecting items to help victims.The plan didn't come together until late Monday night, but the pastor and his wife decided that they're going to take a 26 ...
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Massive tornadoes that hit Oklahoma Texas blamed on stubborn jet stream
View results The same weather phenomenon that brought unusually cold temperatures to the East Coast this spring is being blamed for the massive and devastating tornadoes that tore through Oklahoma this week: A jet stream that refused to leave.Weather forecasters tracked this year’s jet stream - the pattern of high-altitude winds - as moving farther south, and staying farther south, for a ...
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Homeland Secretary Janet Napolitano To Visit Moore
MOORE, Oklahoma - Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano will be in Moore Tuesday to meet with Governor Mary Fallin and state and local officials. In a news release, the secretary stated she wants to "ensure first responders are receiving the assistance they need in on-going response and recovery efforts to the severe weather that impacted the region." Meanwhile, the head ...
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Moore area shelters help 300 with relief
Philip Gotcher and his daughter Monica stand in the rubble of his house after a powerful tornado ripped through the area on May 20, 2013 in Moore, Oklahoma.Copyright Getty ...
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Oklahoma Guard Soldiers Aid Responders in Tornados Wake
By Army Sgt. Daniel Nelson Jr.145th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment MOORE, Okla., May 22, 2013 Oklahoma National Guard soldiers are assisting law enforcement officials and other responders in the wake of a deadly tornado that killed 24 people and flattened part of this Oklahoma City suburb May ...
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Christian Charity in the Oklahoma Tornados Aftermath
As darkness fell on the tornado-ripped community of Moore, Okla., and the severely damaged areas surrounding Oklahoma City on Monday, at least 24 people, including children, were confirmed dead as the search for survivors continued. Many undamaged and secure structures, such as churches, served as emergency shelters for those whose homes were destroyed as the result of the 200 mph winds. ...
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Oklahoma Tornado Wreckage Hard To Believe
Their neighbours in this shattered area are doing the same, collecting up personal items they spot in the rubble before the bulldozers move in and level the area. One young woman has put out a request to her friends on Facebook to help her sift through the wreckage of her home - one of those friends told me it was almost too heartbreaking to contemplate. Many people in Moore said they are ...
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Oklahoma tornado First victim of Moore storm identified as nine-year-old JaNae Hornsby
Oklahoma tornado: Rescue effort nears an end as authorities say they are confident there are no bodies or survivors left in the ...
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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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