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Search for survivors nearly over in Oklahoma as damage estimate is $2bn
MOORE, Oklahoma - Rescue workers were combing through the battered remains of buildings left behind in the path of the gigantic tornado that killed two dozen people, including nine children, in Oklahoma on Monday. Officials say the search for survivors is nearly over as efforts turn towards recovery. Gary Bird, fire chief of the badly hit Moore suburb, said he was "98% sure" there were no ...
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Nikki Sixx lashes out at Kim K for promoting make-up line during Okla. tornado
Nikki Sixx has slammed Kim Kardashian on Twitter for promoting her new make-up collection on Monday in the aftermath of the disastrous tornado that destroyed a suburb near Oklahoma City. After the 'Motley Crue' bassist tweeted about the Red Cross relief for the ruined town, the reality TV star soon followed with her plug on her own makeup line on the website, the New York Post reported. "Love ...
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Experts say Oklahoma tornados power dwarfed Hiroshima bomb
The amount of energy the killer tornado that hit US state of Oklahoma had dwarfed the power of the atomic bomb that levelled Hiroshima. On Tuesday, the National Weather Service gave it the top-of-the-scale rating of EF-5 for wind speed and breadth and severity of damage. Wind speeds were estimated at between 200 and 210 mph. According to the New York Post, several meteorologists used real ...
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Tornado spanned length of 22 soccer fields
Residents of suburban Oklahoma were returning home as rescue workers neared the end of the search for survivors and the dead after a mammoth tornado - said to be as wide as 22 football fields - flattened countless homes and claimed 24 lives, including nine children. Even as officials revised the death toll down from the earlier 51, the National Weather Service gave Monday's tornado that hit ...
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Deadly US Twister Hits Tornado Alley
Monday's deadly tornado in the central U.S. state of Oklahoma struck in an area commonly known as "Tornado Alley" - home to most of the nation's tornadoes. Tornado Alley is generally seen to span north to south from South Dakota to Texas between the Rocky Mountains and the Appalachian Mountains, but there is no official consensus on the boundaries. Comparison of Tornado paths in ...
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Moore mayor 5 of 6 missing found alive
"We'll try to get it passed as soon as I can," Glenn Lewis said. The ordinance would apply to single-family and multifamily homes. At least 24 people, including 10 children, were killed in Monday's mammoth tornado, the state medical examiner's office said. Another 324 people were injured, said Gov. Mary Fallin. Lewis said Wednesday that six people previously unaccounted ...
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Oh Oklahoma Asking the Hard Questions After Memory Fades
in Oklahoma , but they were a real threat: In May 1950, the National Weather Service recorded an F-4 about an hour and a half south of Tulsa that killed five people and injured more than 30. I do remember hearing grown-ups talk about them, about how the Sooner State had the bad luck to attract them. My clearer memories are of endless summer days of 100-plus degree heat, when all we wanted to ...
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Kevin Durant Joins News 9Red Cross Tornado Relief Efforts
News 9 Sports Director Dean Blevins speaks with Kevin Durant as the NBA star collects donations from people calling a News 9/Red Cross phone ...
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OHP Driver In Deadly Grand Lake Boat Crash Was Under the Influence
TULSA, Oklahoma - The man who was driving a speed boat that crashed into an unoccupied, docked houseboat on Grand Lake last week had been drinking before the crash, according to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol. The crash on May 14, 2013 killed Rachel Swetnam and Trey Varner. Six other people on board the board ...
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Collinsville Man Sentenced In Fatal Hit And Run
A man accused of a fatal hit and run in Owasso in early 2012 has been sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to the crime. Jedediah Stephan "Jed" Perkey, 32, pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of a fatal accident on April 8, 2013. Court records indicate he changed his plea from not guilty to guilty without a deal with ...
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St. John Trauma Specialist Gives Tips On Avoiding Injury From Tornado Debris
Hollett has been talking with her counterparts in Oklahoma City and says many of the injuries they're seeing are the result of the powerful wind hurling debris ...
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Tulsa Woman Faces First Degree Murder Charge In Fatal Stabbing
TULSA, Oklahoma - An ex-convict now faces a first degree murder charge in a fatal stabbing in north Tulsa. Police say Karen Haley, 49, confessed to the murder of 58-year-old Robert Middlebrooks. Middlebrooks was found dead near North Florence Place and East Archer Street on the afternoon of Saturday, May 11. According to her arrest report, Haley told police she stabbed Middlebrooks ...
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Should home storm shelters be required
MOORE, OK -- Many people were able to survive and ride out the tornado thanks to storm shelters. Now there's talk of mandating that they be installed in homes. The 17-mile wide tornado affected 33,000 homes. While interior walls can protect you, sometimes they're not enough. That's when a safe room comes into play. Kelley Elementary in Moore has a safe room built inside the ...
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GUIDE Build your own storm shelter
TULSA, Ok. -- Engineers say the best place to be during a tornado is underground, as long as you don't live in a flood zone. But there are other options. Dirk Derouse says his invention, a cylinder shape tornado shelter, is a safe option. "If anything is going to keep you safe it's a steel cylinder, capped with a dome," Derouse said. Derouse said his shelter can withstand an ...
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Blake Shelton plans benefit for Oklahoma tornado victims
Photo credit: Blake Shelton (Getty Images) Oklahoma country singer Blake Shelton is planning a televised benefit to raise money for victims of the massive tornado that swept through Moore, Oklahoma, this week, music magazine Billboard reported Wednesday. "The Voice" judge Shelton, a native of Ada, Oklahoma, which is 75 miles northwest of Moore, said he would have more information on ...
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Okla. Senate votes to tap fund for tornado relief
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- The Oklahoma Senate has unanimously approved a bill to tap $45 million from the state's Rainy Day Fund to help pay for tornado disaster ...
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Okla. transportation agencies supply 400 workers
MOORE, Okla. (AP) -- Transportation agencies in Oklahoma are devoting about 400 workers and 200 pieces of heavy equipment to the recovery effort from the Moore ...
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Oklahoma tornado Names of dead released 6 adults still missing
The state medical examiner released the names of 16 of the 24 people killed Monday's tornado in Moore and south Oklahoma City as memorials for the victims were ...
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Oklahoma tornado damage could exceed $2 billion
Damage from the deadly tornado that struck Moore on Monday could surpass $2 billion in insured losses, Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John Doak estimated ...
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Watch Janet Napolitano Urges Oklahoma Tornado Victims to Contact FEMA
This is a special report from ABC news. I'm Dan -- New York with a CBC news digital special report on a tornado aftermath in Oklahoma that people of the town of more calling through debris hoping. ...
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Gervais calls out Twitter users for response to Oklahoma tornado
In wake of the tornado that hit Moore, Okla., on Monday, thousands of Twitter users have used the hashtag "#PrayForOklahoma" to pledge their support to the victims and those affected by the deadly storm. But not everyone thinks its ...
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New York chef Danny Bowien to come home for OK Chefs Relief Pop-Up Restaurant
That old American elm still stands tall and inspires us to embrace the joy of life no matter how cruel it can sometimes be. We've learned there is no medicine for heartbreak like getting the job done. So we work. Time and experience has taught us that together we work better. So we work together. The local food-service community wasted no time responding, sending food trucks to the aid of ...
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Moore theater to shift back to entertainment
MOORE (AP) -- A movie theater damaged by the Moore tornado plans to reopen in a week. Bill Warren, owner of the Warren Theatre multiplex, said Wednesday that the building sustained between $500,000 and $1 million in ...
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Foreign Students in Oklahoma Confront Tornado Threat
WASHINGTON -- For many Americans in the nation’s center, tornadoes are a frightening fact of life. But for foreign students, usually from countries where tornadoes never occur, twisters can be an even scarier experience. Such was the case this past Monday when a tornado devastated the U.S. town of Moore, Oklahoma, killing at least 24 people and leaving thousands homeless. "It was ...
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Video Up to 13K homes hit by Oklahoma tornado mayor says
Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett says 12,000 to 13,000 homes were affected by the tornado that tore through a city suburb. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano toured the community ...
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Oklahoma's massively ambitious transport plan for next eight years
The Oklahoma Department of Transport has adopted a massive transport improvement plan that will cost the state $4.8 billion over the next eight years and will incorporate around 1,700 individual project around the state aimed at making Oklahoma’s roads, bridges and highways safer and better to drive on.
Oklahoma has around 12,000 miles of highways and many more thousands of miles of roadway and streets, maintaining this massive expanse of tarmac is an ongoing process and in recent years the Department of Transport acknowledged that it has fallen behind. Read more
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