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Oklahoma tornado damage estimate tops $2 billion
MOORE, Okla. The cost of a massive tornado that battered an Oklahoma City suburb could be more than $2 billion, according to a preliminary estimate announced Wednesday by the Oklahoma Insurance Department. Spokeswoman Calley Herth told The Associated Press that the early tally is based on visual assessments of the extensive damage zone stretching more than 17 miles and the fact that the tornado ...
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Blake Shelton planning benefit for Oklahoma tornado victims
Blake Shelton and NBC are putting together a benefit for Oklahoma tornado victims. Shelton told reporters about the fundraising effort after Tuesday night's episode of "The Voice." The Oklahoma ...
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POSTPONED Blaze 5K and Welcome Home Celebration Combine on June 1
What were once separate celebrations by Limbs for Life and the Oklahoma City VA Medical Center are now a combined event with a common admiration and support for one another. LFL's 5K Blaze and the VA's OEF/OIF/OND Welcome Home Celebration will bring together service members, veterans and their families, and military and non-military amputees Saturday, June 1. The Welcome Home ...
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Oklahoma tornado We are by your side says Obama
Message of solidarity comes as evidence emerges federal fund shortages stalled storm shelter building plans. President Barack Obama vowed that the United States would stand behind Oklahoma as it struggled to fill the "empty spaces" left by the devastating tornado with "love and laughter and community". The President promised the full support of the federal Government and that he would "back up ...
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Moore Oklahoma Begins to Recover from Deadly Tornado
Volunteers retrieve clothing and other household items at a home destroyed by a tornado, across the street from the Plaza Towers elementary school in Moore, Oklahoma, May 22, ...
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USM puts campus beautification on hold encourages donations to Oklahoma
HATTIESBURG, MS (WLOX) - Southern Miss is taking a break from its tornado relief fundraising efforts in deference to the tragedy in Oklahoma. The University of Southern Mississippi Foundation announced Wednesday that they would refrain from publicly soliciting donors for the tornado relief and campus beautification campaigns. "It is inappropriate for us to continue to publicly request ...
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Joplin Mo. Advice For Oklahomans Hold On To Hope
As Moore, Oklahoma continues to recover after this week's deadly tornado, survivors of the 2011 Joplin, Missouri tornado are marking the second anniversary of that disaster today. Host Michel Martin discusses Joplin's recovery, and what lessons it might hold for Oklahoma, with Joplin Mayor Melodee Colbert Kean and school superintendent C.J. ...
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OSSAA to replace memorabilia lost in tornadoes
Watch live coverage The OSSAA said that anyone who lost any state championship, playoff-related memorabilia or awards due to the tornadoes-- including any school, coach, director, or student who may have lost trophies, plaques, medals or state championship T-shirts -- can contact officials with the OSSAA to have the items replaced. OSSAA said it will not be able to replace the programs from the ...
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Basements scarce in tornado-prone Okla. city
It's one of the most familiar pieces of advice from authorities to people in the path of a tornado: Get into your basement. Yet few homes in the Oklahoma City area have them -- even though that state is hit by far more powerful tornadoes than most ...
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Why dont Oklahomans have basements
>Country star Toby Keith tours the damage in his hometown of Moore, Oklahoma on 'AC360' tonight, 8pm ET. (CNN) -- It's one of the most familiar pieces of advice from authorities to people in the path of a tornado: Get into your basement. Yet few homes in the Oklahoma City area have them -- even though that state is hit by far more powerful tornadoes than most others. "Probably less than one ...
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Valero refinery in Oklahoma unaffected by tornado
A file photo of a Valero refinery. Company officials announced that its refinery in Ardmore, Okla. was unaffected by the recent tornado. Valero Energy Corp. said its refinery in Ardmore, Okla., was unaffected by the tornado that tore through the nearby town of Moore on Monday, killing at least 24 people. All employees at the 87,400 barrel-per-day refinery are safe and accounted for, company ...
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Schools devastated by Oklahoma tornado had no safe rooms
Weather Two Oklahoma schools destroyed by the devastating May 20 tornado lacked "safe room" shelters that cost up to $1 million, but could have potentially saved the lives of children who died in the wreckage. Two elementary schools were destroyed in the EF-5 twister that killed at least 24 ...
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Oklahoma Lt. Gov. Safe houses are a personal choice
MSNBC's Chris Jansing tours a safe room that saved an Oklahoma couple and their neighbors. Jansing also talks to Lt. Gov. Todd Lamb about safe ...
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The youngest Oklahoma victims
Mrs Vargyas is apparently too distraught to speak.The Oklahoma medical examiner's office says it has positively identified 23 of the 24 victims and that 10 of those killed are children.The very youngest is 4-month-old Case Futrell who died from head injuries.The eight other children ranged in age from 4 years old to 9 years old. Of those, six were suffocated. The other two died from massive ...
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Oklahoma tornado the end of a world is in Ledonna Cobbs eyes | Jonathan Jones
What makes a particular photograph "iconic"? That word is already being used of this picture of a family group stumbling away from the wreckage of Briarwood elementary school after the Oklahoma tornado struck ...
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Oklahoma rescuers wind up search and prepare for tornado clean-up
Oklahoma city of Moore after it was slammed by a deadly tornado.Though the twister levelled entire city blocks, flattened two schools and killed 24 people while injuring more than 240 it was becoming clear amid the rubble that the disaster could have been far worse.Initial fears that perhaps around 90 people might have been killed by the ferocious storm were retracted by local officials and now ...
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Oklahoma tornadoes Survivor rides out tornado in doomed Moore school
James and Kristy Rushing lost their Moore home of almost 15 years, which they shared with five foster children. All they salvaged were some ...
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Some victims’ names released in deadly tornado
OKLAHOMA CITY– The medical examiner’s office has released the names of some of the victims of Monday’s tornado in Moore. 24 people died. They are not releasing eight victims’ identities, pending family ...
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Focus in Oklahoma Moves From Rescue to Recovery
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Oklahoma Schools Destroyed by Tornado Lacked ‘Safe Rooms’
In Moore, Oklahoma, an area residents call Tornado Alley because it's struck by more ferocious twisters than anywhere in the U.S., two schools destroyed by yesterday's storm lacked "safe room" shelters that would have cost $600,000 to $1 million per building to retrofit. Today rescue teams with mobile cranes, flatbed trucks and front-end loaders continued to clear rubble ...
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Nationwides catastrophe-response unit arriving in Oklahoma
Piles of debris lie around a home destroyed by a tornado in Moore, Oklahoma. The town reported a tornado of at least EF4 strength and two miles wide that touched down May 20, leveling everything in its path. Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. has sent its mobile catastrophe-response unit to the Oklahoma City area as the company tries to help policyholders who suffered losses from Mondays massive ...
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2 infants among 10 kids killed in Oklahoma tornado
This aerial view shows an entire neighborhood destroyed by Monday's tornado, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Moore, Okla. A huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds. (AP Photo/Tony ...
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Hypocrisy from Oklahoma Senators Inhofe and Coburn in Wake of Tornado Striking Constituents in Moore Oklahoma
How's this for chutzpah. Both U.S. senators from Oklahoma, Sen. James Inhofe and Sen. Tom Coburn in January voted against the supplemental appropriations bill to the FEMA disaster relief fund that was targeted to provide relief for the victims of Hurricane Sandy that tore into New York and New Jersey. Inhofe called the Sandy appropriations bill a "slush fund" because it included ...
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ME release names victims of Mondays deadly tornado 10 children
Hundreds maybe even more than 1,000 volunteers responded to a request for help from the City of Moore Wednesday. The message, which was dispersed through social media, asked for people to come out and aid in the clean-up of the Moore cemetery. The clean-up effort was initiated to make sure the cemetery's ground were cleared before the funerals of tornado ...
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Okla. lawmakers to take up tornado recovery bill
Oklahoma lawmakers are preparing to take up legislation to appropriate $45 million in emergency funds to help pay for recovery efforts following deadly tornadoes in central ...
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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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