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Via @nprnews: VIDEO: Tears Flow As Mom Finds Son After Tornado n.pr/10K988M

VIDEO: Tears Flow As Mom Finds Son After Tornado

npr.org — We don't need to say much. Just watch this video from The Oklahoman of Trenda Purcell's reunion Monday with her 8-year-old son Kamden, who she found safe and sound after the tornado that swept through Moore, Okla. "I'm amazed that he walked out of that building alive," Purcell told CBS This Morning about Briarwood Elementary School, where Kamden was a pupil.
Obama pledges that #Moore will get help for 'as long as it takes' to recover from tornado. n.pr/10JqvGX

Death Toll Climbing In Oklahoma Tornado Tragedy

npr.org — (We're following the news from Oklahoma, where a tornado devastated the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday.) As Tuesday dawned, the official death toll from the monster tornado that roared through Moore, Okla., on Monday stood at 51.
Via @nprnews: UPDATE: Death Toll From Devastating Tornado Revised Down n.pr/10JqvGX

Death Toll Climbing In Oklahoma Tornado Tragedy

npr.org — (We're following the news from Oklahoma, where a tornado devastated the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday.) As Tuesday dawned, the official death toll from the monster tornado that roared through Moore, Okla., on Monday stood at 51.
'All I could see was destruction,' writes AP photographer who went to scene of tornado in Moore, Okla. n.pr/10JqvGX

Death Toll Climbing In Oklahoma Tornado Tragedy

npr.org — (We're following the news from Oklahoma, where a tornado devastated the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday.) As Tuesday dawned, the official death toll from the monster tornado that roared through Moore, Okla., on Monday stood at 51.
Okla Lt. Gov. says Moore tornado was like a 2-mile wide lawnmower chewing up everything in its path: n.pr/10JqvGX

Death Toll Climbing In Oklahoma Tornado Tragedy

npr.org — (We're following the news from Oklahoma, where a tornado devastated the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday.) As Tuesday dawned, the official death toll from the monster tornado that roared through Moore, Okla., on Monday stood at 51.
Via @nprnews: Death Toll Climbing In Oklahoma Tornado Tragedy n.pr/10JqvGX

Death Toll Climbing In Oklahoma Tornado Tragedy

npr.org — (We're following the news from Oklahoma, where a tornado devastated the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday.) As Tuesday dawned, the official death toll from the monster tornado that roared through Moore, Okla., on Monday stood at 51.

Weather: Severe Weather Control Center - News9.com - Oklahoma City, OK - News, Weather, Video and Sports |

news9.com — News9.com is your local source for information in Oklahoma City, delivering breaking news, weather, sports, lifestyle and classifieds.
RT @acarvin: New tornado heading to Meeker, OK. TAKE SHELTER NOW.
RT @allsongs: RIP Ray Manzarek, the keyboardist for The Doors passed away today in Germany from bile duct cancer. He was 74.
Comparisons being made to May 3, 1999, tornado outbreak (74 hit in Okla. & Kan.). More about that here: nssl.noaa.gov/about/history/…

May 3, 1999 OK/TX Tornado Outbreak

nssl.noaa.gov — May 3, 1999 Oklahoma/Kansas Tornado Outbreak A total of 74 tornadoes touched down across the two states in less than 21 hours. At one point, there were as many as four tornadoes reported on the ground at the same time.
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