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Locals recount rescue efforts look to rebuild
Local Oklahoma residents recount how they stepped out into the tornado's destruction and rescued others from the rubble. NBC News' Brian Williams ...
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What will be tornado’s full path of destruction
The Weather Channel's meteorologist Jim Cantore speaks to NBC News' Brian Williams about the nature of the monstrous tornado that hit Monroe, Oklahoma and what its full path of destruction might ...
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Sights and sounds of a tornado-hit town
Watch this special montage of sights and sounds from various Oklahoma residents as they share their collective thoughts on rebuilding their lives from a natural ...
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Chargers CEO Team wont move to Los Angeles
San Diego Chargers president and CEO Dean Spanos said Tuesday that his team won’t move to Los Angeles and expressed a firm commitment to the ...
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28 killed in American-owned Freeport mine in Indonesia
(45 mins ago) Rescuers have recovered seven more bodies from a collapsed American-owned mine tunnel in eastern Indonesia, its US operator said, taking the accident's final toll to 28. The rescue team ';recovered and identified the last of the remains of the buried workers early this morning'', the Indonesian subsidiary of US-based Freeport-McMoRan said in a statement. ...
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American general turfed over adultery
(47 mins ago) An American general was suspended as commander of an army training center following allegations of adultery and a physical altercation. Brigadier General Bryan Roberts was suspended as commanding general of the US Army training center at Fort Jackson, South Carolina ';due to allegations of misconduct,'' army spokesman Harvey Perritt said. ';The allegations ...
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Family of California woman killed by U.S. Border Patrol files suit
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - The family of a San Diego woman killed in an encounter with the U.S. Border Patrol filed a federal wrongful death lawsuit on Tuesday alleging a plainclothes agent used excessive force when he opened fire on the woman as she tried to flee in a ...
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Video Obama promises federal aid to help in tornado search-and-rescue
President Barack Obama told the people of Moore, Okla., that their country would be there for them for as long as it takes. More than 150 federal emergency personnel are in Oklahoma to help those in need. Major Garrett ...
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Video Mayor of Moore Okla. talks rebuilding after disaster
Glenn Lewis, the mayor of Moore, Okla., was there in 1999 when another tornado devastated the city. He speaks to Scott Pelley about how the town will rebuild following Monday's ...
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Video Seeing the twisters destruction through a photographers lens
Around 60 people were still hospitalized Tuesday with injuries they sustained when the tornado plowed through Moore, Okla. Scott Pelley talks to Dr. David Hogan, who helped treat many of the patients who were rushed to his hospital Monday ...
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Video Familys last-minute decision likely saved their lives
David and Anna Friess lost almost all of their possessions in Monday's tornado, but they could have lost more, if not for a last-minute decision. Jeff Glor ...
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Video Closer look reveals extent of destruction in Moore
A tour of neighborhoods in Moore, Okla., reveals many homes weren't just damaged by Monday's massive tornado - they were destroyed. Anna Werner ...
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Video Woman loses home to a tornado for second time
To lose your home once to a tornado is hard enough. After rebuilding following the tornado in 1999, one woman in Moore, Okla., has lost her home again. Manuel Bojorquez ...
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Video Where is extreme weather headed
The difference between survival and death during a tornado can be helped by increased warning time. The National Weather Srvice says that the ability to forecast a tornado system has improved drastically. Chip Reid reports on the improving ...
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Video The twisters smallest victims One familys story
When tornado sirens ring, residents are told to take cover, but storm chasers go towards the trouble. Troy Roberts shares the story of Kevin Rolffs, Colt Forney and Lauren Hill. These three ran towards the storm in Moore, Okla and captured some of the most striking images of the ...
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United States Will Be Urged to Allow Retaliation Against Cyberattacks
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10 Things to Know for Wednesday
Apple CEO Tim Cook adjusts his glasses as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Permanent subcommittee on Investigations hearing to examine the methods employed by multinational corporations to shift profits offshore and how such activities are affected by the Internal Revenue Code. Lawmakers want to know ...
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APNewsBreak Coast Guard deserter to be confined
HONOLULU -; A military judge has ruled that a Coast Guard rescue swimmer who admitted he deserted his job in Hawaii to camp out in the mountains of Oahu for three months will be confined for more than 6 months and discharged with bad ...
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Details of the Senate immigration bill
-Within six months of enactment of the bill, the Homeland Security Department must develop a border security plan to achieve those goals, including the use of drones, additional agents and other approaches; and develop a plan to identify where more fencing is ...
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Tony DeFillipo Beth Spiegel win North Miami Beach council seats in runoff election
North Miami Beach voters elected Anthony "Tony" DeFillipo as the newest member of the city council and for Councilwoman Beth E. Spiegel to remain in her seat as a result of Tuesday’s runoff. DeFillipo beat out Hillel Hellinger for the Seat 2 position by taking 1,174 votes (69.5 percent of the vote). Hellinger received 516 votes (30.5 percent). "I am very happy," ...
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Search for Okla. tornado survivors nearly complete
MOORE, Okla. (AP) Helmeted rescue workers raced Tuesday to complete the search for survivors and the dead in the Oklahoma City suburb where a mammoth tornado destroyed countless homes, cleared lots down to bare red earth and claimed 24 lives, including those of nine children. Scientists concluded the storm was a rare and extraordinarily powerful type of twister known as an EF5, ranking it at ...
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Xis Latin American tour to enhance cooperation spokesman
Chinese president to visit three Latin American nations and US China will take the opportunity of President Xi Jinping's upcoming visits to three Latin American nations to further increase political trust and consolidate friendship with them, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Tuesday.Hong Lei's comments at a press briefing came after Qin Gang, also a Ministry of Foreign Affairs ...
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For Oklahoma doctors and first responders an emotional 24 hours
When the tornado hit Moore, flattening their medical center, the chief of trauma surgery at the University of Oklahoma Medical Center mobilized her team. Lessons learned from past tragedies helped forge the new Level One Trauma center. NBC's Dr. Nancy Snyderman ...
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Medical teams in tornado country ‘Not again’
Dr. Roxie Albrecht of the Oklahoma University Medical Center and paramedic Tony McCarty discuss the highly experienced medical response to tornado victims, the type of injuries they saw, and the emotional aspects of doing their jobs in tornado country. NBC News' Nancy Snyderman ...
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Teachers families survive school’s destruction
As a historical tornado destroys the Plaza Towers elementary school in Oklahoma, inspirational stories of survival from teachers, students, and parents emerge from the rubble. NBC News' Kate Snow ...
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