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  • Twister that hit Oklahoma caused $2 bn in damage Twister that hit Oklahoma caused $2 bn in damage

    MOORE, Oklahoma - Rescue workers were combing through the battered remains of buildings left behind in the path of the gigantic tornado that killed two dozen people, including nine children, in Oklahoma on Monday. Officials say the search for survivors is nearly over as efforts turn towards recovery. Gary Bird, fire chief of the badly hit Moore suburb, said he was "98% sure" there were no ...

  • Oklahoma tornado damage could top $2 bn

    The tornado that killed 24 people and injured more than 200 others in Moore, Oklahoma, could have done more than $2 billion worth of damage, officials said Wednesday. State Insurance Commissioner John Doak announced that figure Wednesday in a statement to the press, adding that losses from the wreckage could equal the amount caused by the twister that struck Joplin, Missouri, in 2011, leaving ...

  • Latimer County Teen Killed After Car Hits Tree

    LATIMER COUNTY, Oklahoma - A Red Oak teenager is dead following a Wednesday crash in rural Latimer County. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says the crash occurred on a county road about 4 miles south of Red Oak. The trooper's report states the car was traveling eastbound at an "unsafe speed," when the driver, Chase Thompson, 16, of Red Oak, lost control, causing the car to go off ...

  • Gov. Fallin Announces Memorial Service For Tornado Victims

    MOORE, Oklahoma - Gov. Mary Fallin announced that a memorial and prayer service will be held this Sunday, May 26, at the First Baptist Church in Moore. The service will honor and remember the victims of the May 20 tornado that killed 24 people in Moore and the May 19 tornado that killed two in Shawnee. It is open to the public. "The people of Oklahoma are resilient," said ...

  • Tulsa Police Witness To Crash Helps Officers Find Fleeing Driver

    TULSA, Oklahoma - Tulsa Police arrest a driver of an SUV after they say it slammed into the back of a car on Highway 169 early Thursday. Officers say another driver witnessed the crash and followed the Range Rover to a parking lot on 91st Street while calling police. Police arrived and arrested the driver, Jamie Dwyer, 27, on complaints of leaving the scene of an injury crash and driving ...

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The Diving Bell and the Butterly (Le Scaphandre et le papillon)

The Diving Bell and the Butterly (Le Scaphandre et le papillon)

The cinema is a medium of movement. Even in the earliest days of fixed-camera actualities, when complex narrative was as fantastical an idea as a lengthy tracking shot, audiences were fascinating by movement in the frame; in other words, they dont called them ... ...

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  • Hard recovery after $2 billion in damage

    MOORE, Okla. -- All that is left of Shayne Patterson's three-bedroom home is the tiny area where his wife hunkered down under a mattress to protect their three children when a tornado packing winds of at least 200 mph slammed through his neighborhood. Patterson vowed to rebuild, likely in the same place, but said next time he will have an underground storm shelter. "That is the first ...

  • Briarwood special ed teacher saved students’ lives

    As the wedge-shaped funnel cloud was destroying every home in its path and speeding toward Briarwood Elementary, special education teacher Paula Fauble was cramming her students into a small hallway between two ...

  • Dad saved 9-year-old at Plaza Towers

    EF-5 tornado caused in Moore, Oklahoma, one couple was still shaken as they spoke of their son's survival. Scott and Julie Lewis' son is one of only two students from his third grade class to make it out of Plaza Towers Elementary School alive on Monday. "I thought Zack would be OK at that school, but I was wrong. So many children died and it was his class and his friends," ...

  • Moore Oklahoma tornado boy describes moment his school was hit – video

    A nine-year-old boy tells how Monday's tornado swept through his school, Briarwood Elementary, in Moore, Oklahoma. Garret Hunnan says his teacher attempted to reassure him as the storm was approaching. Another tornado survivor tells how she is trying to recover clothes so she can attend the funeral of a tornado ...

  • Roof collapse reported in Mustang Oklahoma storm Thursday morning

    MUSTANG - The roof of a structure has collapsed under heavy rain Thursday morning, a police dispatcher reports. Firefighters have responded to 1811 E State Highway 152, the dispatcher ...

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