AT LEAST 51 PEOPLE KILLED BY MASSIVE TORNADO THAT CHURNED THROUGH OKLAHOMA **

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 MASSIVE 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 **

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 **

MORE THAN 20 STUDENTS ARE MISSING BELIEVED TO BE IN THE RUBBLE OF THE **

AUTHORITIES EXPECTING THE DEATH TOLL TO RISE AS EMERGENCY CREWS MOVE DEEPER **

FALLIN HAS DEPLOYED 80 NATIONAL GUARD MEMBERS TO ASSIST WITH SEARCH-AND- **

COMMUNICATION SNARLED BY THE STORM, AS LANDLINES AND CELL PHONE TOWERS WERE **


 

Latest White House Press Pool Report: President …making the trip .. click to read

Subject: Obama pool — president’s departure from WH to Hill

 

The president’s party emerged from the north portico at 10:38 a.m., escorted by a four-man Marine guard.

 

Jill Biden and the wife of Sen. Lamar Alexander came out first, alone, and got into a black limo. A second limo pulled up and the first lady and the wife of Sen. Chuck Schumer came out and got into that one.

 

The VP and Sen. Alexander got into the third limo.

 

The president and Sen. Schumer emerged together and got into the fourth car. Obama saluted the Marines before boarding.

 

The crowd cheered as the motorcade pulled out and turned east toward the Capitol.








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