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Logistics of tornado disaster challenges response
tornado warning that's going so this is by no means over. we had the mile-wide tornado that you mentioned in moore and we have so many people responding off the street to help that ...
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Wait for news from schools heavy with anxiety
Jay Gray, NBC News correspondent, talks with Rachel Maddow from outside the wreckage of what was Briarwood Elementary School in Moore, Oklahoma before it was destroyed by a deadly tornado that cut a massive swath of destruction through the ...
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Preparing for bad news in Oklahoma
The storm peaked in the populated area of Moore, Okla., where the town is bracing for more bad news in the coming days. The Weather Channel's Brian Norcross ...
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Emergency responders rush all hands to tornado-stricken town
Janet Shamlian, NBC News national correspondent, talks with Rachel Maddow live from Moore, Oklahoma about the conditions she sees as authorities are limiting the people being allowed into the town. Oklahoma Lt. Gov. Todd Lamb discusses the state of efforts by first responders to find as many people as possible as quickly as possible in the ...
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An agonizing wait for those returning to Moore
It is about an hour to travel two miles to reach the city of Moore now that traffic is so backed up. In addition, cell phones have been rendered useless by lack of signal. NBC's Janet Shamlian ...
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Rescue workers face sea of destruction in Oklahoma
David Massey, whose series of brief web videos shot in the immediate wake of the Moore, OK tornado spread rapidly across the Web, talks with Rachel Maddow about what he experienced on the scene. Sgt. Gary Knight of the Oklahoma City Policy Department discusses the state of the emergency response and the greatest challenges rescuers are ...
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Children pulled from rubble at Oklahoma school flattened by tornado
By Tracy Connor, Staff Writer, NBC News Seven children were found drowned at a tornado-flattened elementary school where rescuers were searching the rubble for survivors as parents kept a heart-breaking vigil, officials said Monday night.The students killed at Plaza Towers Elementary School were among at least 51 lives claimed by the monster twister that ripped through Oklahoma City ...
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Fox News Washington reporter who sought State Department leaks from Korean faces criminal rap
The US government is prosecuting a State Department expert on North Korea in an inquiry that appears to step into uncharted territory _ by declaring that a journalist is committing a crime in disclosing leaked information. It is the latest case of the Obama administration investigating classified information improperly disclosed to reporters, AP reports. During the investigation of State ...
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White House Defends Tracking Fox Reporter
court affidavit obtained by The Washington Post . Without naming Mr. Rosen, the document describes the reporter as "at the very least, either as an aider, abettor and/or ...
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A Mayoral Race of ‘Firsts’ for Los Angeles Voters
LOS ANGELES -- Voters in the nation's second-largest city will go to the polls Tuesday to elect a new mayor in an election that will inevitably result in a milestone: either the first woman or first Jew elected to the top city ...
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TARGET SPEAKS OUT Tea Party Founder Claims Feds Eyed Her for Years
Catherine Engelbrecht has been telling people for years she's been targeted and harassed by the federal government. Not many people listened. But her case is receiving new attention after her congressman, Republican Texas Rep. Kevin Brady, recounted her ordeal during a high-profile House committee hearing on the IRS practice of singling out conservative groups. He claimed she was ...
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Tornadoes in America The Oklahoma Disaster in Context
could probably lay claim to being the very center of Tornado Alley, an area roughly defined from north Texas to South Dakota, and west of the Mississippi river. On May 3, 1999, Moore was hit by one of the worst tornadoes on record. That storm's winds were indirectly measured at 302 miles per ...
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Broward women brought 143 Haitians to S. Fla. for fake jobs feds say
Haiti with false promises of steady paying jobs in construction or on farms, the hope of getting permanent residency and making a life in the U.S., they said.But when they arrived, they found the jobs didn't exist, and they were left to fend for themselves — the victims of a fraud perpetrated by two Broward women, prosecutors said.The plot was so audacious that one of the women, Jetta ...
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Pentagon to take over some CIA drone operations sources
A U.S. Marine, who is part of a military honor guard, takes his position before a welcoming ceremony for German Defense Minister Thomas de Maiziere, by U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, at the Pentagon in Washington April 30, ...
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The New York Times Reinvents the Boring Banner Ad
obscure piece on The New York Times’ website about Picasso repurposing his canvases by painting over older, abandoned projects was fascinating, at least insofar as stories about master artists and their recycling habits go. But let’s face it-it wasn’t exactly click ...
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Chicago Blackhawks vs Detroit Red Wings Live Stream Free Watch Online Stanley Cup Playoffs Hockey
May 20, 2013 7:24 pm The Chicago Blackhawks will take on the Detroit Red Wings in the Stanley Cup Playoffs Western Conference semifinal series Game 3 on Monday night, with the Red Wings hoping to build on their Game 2 win, which brought the series back to 1-1.The game is scheduled to start at 7.30 p.m. ET and can be watched online through free live stream (details ...
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Video Okla. tornado survivor finds dog buried alive under rubble
Barbara Garcia, a survivor of the massive tornado that struck an Oklahoma City suburb, found her dog buried alive under the rubble during her interview with CBS News' Anna ...
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How to help those hit by Oklahoma tornado
A U.S. flag lays among debris in Moore, Okla., Monday, May 20, 2013 following a tornado up to a mile wide which swept through the Oklahoma City ...
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Children rescued from elementary school in Okla.
Children are rescued by from Tower Plaza Elementary School in Moore, Okla., following a devastating tornado that destroyed the school and much of the area, May 20, 2013 A child is pulled from the rubble of the Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., and passed along to rescuers. The search for more survivors ...
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Video Survivors pulled from Okla. school hit by tornado
Several children have been pulled alive from the rubble of an elementary school south of Oklahoma City that was hit by a tornado estimated to be over a mile wide. Scott Pelley ...
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Video Storm spotter Oklahoma tornado formed almost without any warning
Storm spotter Ben McMillan described to Scott Pelley how the mile-wide tornado that tore through an Oklahoma City suburb formed over the city with almost no ...
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Video Oklahoma City manager Tornado created significant damage
Oklahoma City Manager Jim Couch told Scott Pelley that search-and-rescue teams have been dispatched after a tornado estimated to be over a mile wide tore a path through the town of Moore, ...
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Watch Oklahoma Tornado Leaves Dozens Dead
It's certainly a very very sad day -- of Oklahoma. Very hard day -- -- -- tremendous disaster that has hit this community and more in other areas at this day. Beginning yesterday with a terrible storms and history. So many different areas and certainly today it places big tornado that. -- long had the same path that may night. Maker turning in 1999 -- is arguably there's something ...
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MLB Miami 5 Philadelphia 1
Justin Ruggiano knocked in a pair of runs Monday in the Miami Marlins' 5-1 win over Philadelphia. Sanabia (3-6) broke a five-start losing streak with his first victory since April 16. The right-hander limited the Phillies to one run on seven hits, walking one while fanning three. Ruggiano's RBI double in the sixth inning broke a 1-1 tie and he doubled the advantage with a run-scoring ...
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Court decision pending in NYPD stop-and-frisk case
In this Friday, May 17, 2013, photo, U.S. District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin is interviewed in her federal court chambers, in New York. Scheindlin is the federal judge presiding over civil rights challenges to the stop-and-frisk practices of the New York Police Department. (AP Photo/Richard ...
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