Local & Regional
1:54 pm
Tue May 21, 2013

Tornado Injuries Mount

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Moore Tornado Devastation

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Hospital officials say they've treated hundreds of patients, including dozens of children, since a tornado hit an Oklahoma City suburb.

About 60 patients remained hospitalized Tuesday following Monday's tornado.

Norman Regional Hospital spokeswoman Melissa Herron says 20 of the more than 100 patients her hospital treated remain hospitalized.

Spokeswoman Brooke Cayot (KAY'-ot) says about 20 of the 90 patients seen at Integris Southwest Medical Center also remain in the hospital.

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Local & Regional
1:07 pm
Tue May 21, 2013

Ways To Help Tornado Victims and Relief Efforts

Many agencies are facilitating and assisting relief efforts in Moore. Here are some options for donating money and supplies in Tulsa.

Red Cross

You can text “Red Cross” to 90999 in order to make a $10 donation to the Oklahoma Red Cross, which is on the scene in Moore providing first-response relief. You can also donate online at www.redcross.org/ok/tulsa.

The Salvation Army

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12:09 pm
Tue May 21, 2013

The Takeaway: Voices From Moore

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John Hockenberry speaks with those on the scene of the tornado devastation, including Rachel Hubbard of KOSU who lives in Edmond, Pastor Ben Glover in Oklahoma City, and Garrett Ingoglia of AmeriCares, an emergency response organization.
A huge tornado tore through parts of Oklahoma City Monday, killing at least 91 people and injuring 145. The tornado is said to have produced winds of 200 M.P.H. that leveled buildings and whole neighborhoods. Among the buildings damaged were two elementary schools, including the Plaza Towers Elementary School in the suburb of Moore, which was full of children at the time the tornado struck.
Local & Regional
11:39 am
Tue May 21, 2013

Tennessee Sends Search And Rescue Team To Oklahoma

A Tennessee-based team of emergency service workers has gone to Oklahoma to help with tornado recovery.

Memphis Fire Department spokesman Wayne Cooke said that Tennessee Task Force 1 left early Tuesday from Memphis.

Cooke says the 80-member team will mostly help with search and rescue efforts after powerful and deadly tornadoes struck cities in Oklahoma on Sunday and Monday. Emergency crews are digging through the rubble of destroyed structures to find trapped people.

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11:04 am
Tue May 21, 2013

"Google Crisis" A Clearinghouse for Information

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An interactive Google map provides a wealth of information about Oklahoma City shelters, school and church closings, and displays the preliminary tornado track over the streets of Moore, Oklahoma.
This interactive map from Google highlights the storm track, as well as locations for American Red Cross shelters throughout Central Oklahoma. Relief
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Local & Regional
10:11 am
Tue May 21, 2013

Oklahoma Senator Says Tornado Aid Should Be Paid For

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Conservative Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn says that any additional federal aid to help tornado victims and to rebuild devastated areas of his state should be financed with cuts to other programs in the government's $3.6 trillion budget.

Spokesman John Hart says it's a position Coburn has consistently held regarding federal spending on disasters dating to the 1995 bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City.

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9:58 am
Tue May 21, 2013

Images From Monday's Tornado

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StateImpact Oklahoma's Joe Wertz was in Moore yesterday and was caught in the tornado. Here's a slideshow of pictures that he took while reporting for NPR and our sister station KGOU in Norman.
StateImpact Oklahoma's Joe Wertz took cover in Moore on his drive home from KGOU Monday afternoon. Once the tornado passed, he immediately went to work
Local & Regional
9:46 am
Tue May 21, 2013

Obama Offers Help For Oklahoma Tornado Victims

President Barack Obama says he is instructing his disaster response team to get tornado victims in Oklahoma everything they need "right away."

Obama calls the devastation that tore through the Oklahoma City suburbs, quote, "one of the most destructive tornados in history," even though he said the extent of the damage is still unknown.

Obama spoke Tuesday after an Oval Office briefing on the latest developments from his disaster response team and as Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Craig Fugate was heading to Oklahoma.

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Local & Regional
9:43 am
Tue May 21, 2013

Oklahoma Interstates Open, But Traffic Slow Moving

Officials say all of the interstates through the tornado-ravaged areas of Moore and Oklahoma City are open, but traffic is moving slowly.

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol reports portions of Interstates 44 and 35 that were shut down after Monday's deadly tornado were reopened about 10 p.m. Monday.

Capt. George Brown says all lanes of I-35 through Moore are open, but that traffic has slowed to a crawl where the tornado crossed the interstate. Heavily damaged homes and businesses can be seen on both sides of the north-south thoroughfare.

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Local & Regional
9:26 pm
Mon May 20, 2013

Oklahoma Officials: Tornado Search, Rescue Ongoing

Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin says "hearts are broken" for parents wondering about the fate of their children after a tornado devastated suburban Oklahoma City and officials say the search and rescue effort will continue throughout the night.

Fallin told a Monday news conference that a center for those seeking loved ones has been set up at a church in Moore, where an afternoon tornado flattened entire neighborhoods and destroyed an elementary school with a direct hit. She says responders are working as quickly as they can to sort through the rubble.

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