AT LEAST 51 PEOPLE KILLED BY MILE-WIDE TORNADO THAT CHURNED THROUGH **

HOMES AND BUILDINGS IN MOORE, OK, WERE ESPECIALLY AFFECTED, AND VEHICLES **

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN OKLAHOMA CITY SUBURB SUFFERS EXTENSIVE DAMAGE FROM **

MOORE, ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF THE CITY, WAS ONE OF THE TOWNS HIT BY A MAY **

VOLUNTEERS AND FIRST RESPONDERS COMBING THROUGH DEBRIS IN MOORE, OK, **

NEIGHBORHOODS FLATTENED AND HOMES BLOWN APART IN THE OKLAHOMA CITY SUBURB **

SHARDS OF WOOD, CARS AND INSULATION STREWN ACROSS THE AREA **

FEMA CLOSELY MONITORING STORMS AND THEIR DAMAGE IN MOORE, OK, AND **

HOMELAND SECURITY SECY JANET NAPOLITANO COORDINATING WITH OK GOV MARY **

OBAMA ADMIN URGES ALL THOSE IN AFFECTED AREAS TO FOLLOW THE DIRECTION OF **

THE MILE-WIDE TORNADO THAT HAS STRUCK THE OKLAHOMA CITY SUBURB OF MOORE HAS **

STORM WAS LIKELY AT LEAST OF EF4 STRENGTH, THE SECOND HIGHEST RATING **

SEVERAL CHILDREN PULLED OUT OF RUBBLE ALIVE AT PLAZA TOWERS ELEMENTARY **

RESCUE WORKERS LIFTED CHILDREN FROM THE RUBBLE BEFORE PASSING THEM DOWN A **

HOSPITALS TREATING MORE THAN 120 PATIENTS AFTER OKLAHOMA TORNADO, INCLUDING **

MOST PATIENTS ARE BEING ADMITTED TO UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA MEDICAL CENTER **

OKLAHOMA POLICE TELL FOX NEWS THAT AT LEAST FOUR WERE KILLED AT A 7-11 **

BUILDINGS LEVELED, FIRES SPARKED BY THE TORNADO, WHICH RAVAGED THE OKLAHOMA **

MOORE MEDICAL CENTER, THE ONLY HOSPITAL IN MOORE, ALSO SUFFERED EXTENSIVE **

THE CENTER EVACUATED 30 PATIENTS TO TWO OTHER HOSPITALS IN NORMAN, OK **

AT LEAST 24 STUDENTS ARE MISSING BELIEVED TO BE IN THE RUBBLE OF THE SCHOOL **

The NIGHTMARE in SUDAN NUBA MOUNTAINS and SOUTH SUDAN CONTINUES..

The article below is from the BBC website.  It reports what we all on GretaWire know — people in Nuba Mountains and South Sudan are starving to death because Sudan President Bashir is bombing his own people (and they are fleeing to South Sudan.)  I sure wish I could help….

Half of South Sudan facing food shortages, warns UN

 

More than half the population of South Sudan are facing food shortages due to the continuing conflict with Sudan, the UN is warning.

 

It says fighting on the border between the two countries and the shutdown of oil production have had a devastating impact on the South’s economy.

 

It adds there are fears the situation in the South, which gained independence from Sudan last July, is worsening.

 

Previous estimates suggest 4.7 million people are at risk of food shortages.

 

In this latest report, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha) says a complex combination of factors has “raised fears that the South Sudanese are sliding into destitution”.

 

Those factors include:  CLICK HERE