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  • 10 killed as powerful tornado slams Oklahoma City

    At least 10 people were killed as a powerful two-mile-wide tornado slammed Oklahoma City in South Central US ripping roofs off buildings, levelling homes, and cutting a wide path of destruction. Besides the 10 dead, at least 20 more, including eight children, were injured. Injuries ranged from minor to critical. More than 32,000 electricity customers in Oklahoma lost power, according to latest ...

  • Massive tornado jolts Oklahoma City in US

    A gigantic tornado Monday ripped through a suburb of Oklahoma City in the US , destroying a school, sparking fires and flattening homes across whole neighbourhoods. The twister struck about 4.00 p.m. (local time) Monday in Moore city, a suburb of about 55,000 people just south of Oklahoma City in the Oklahoma state. Rescuers were searching for survivors as scores of primary school children ...

  • Tornadoes tear through central US

    Tornadoes tore through three central American states of Kansas, Oklahoma and Iowa with baseball-sized hail and wind blasts ripping roofs off homes and turning trees to matchsticks, as severe weather swept the region. A large "violent and extremely dangerous" tornado was spotted Sunday night on the southwest side of Wichita, Kansas and a second confirmed one was seen near Edmond, Oklahoma, the ...

  • Six dead in Oklahoma tornado report

    At least six people are dead after the Oklahoma City tornado, CNN reports.There are also reports that several children have been pulled out of rubble alive at a primary school.An Associated Press photographer saw several children being pulled out of what was left of the school in Moore, Oklahoma, on Monday after a massive 1.6km-wide tornado hit the region.Rescue workers lifted children from the ...

  • Children pulled from rubble at Oklahoma school following tornado

    A child is pulled from the rubble of the Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., and passed along to rescuers Monday, May 20, 2013. (Sue ...

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Narc

Narc

Writer/director Joe Carnahan has a generic, unimposing name, the kind you would expect to see in the credits of a straight-to-video slugfest. And, in some ways, that is exactly what his sophomore film, Narc, is, except that it is filmed with such energy and bravado and boasts two performances by Ray Liotta and Jason Patric that are so impressive that it rises above its generic roots and be ... ...

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  • Video Oklahoma tornado This is war zone terrible

    A huge tornado flattened an area near Oklahoma City on Monday, leaving a wake of tangled wreckage, as a dangerous storm system threatened as many as 10 states. Deborah Lutterbeck ...

  • Video Raw Aftermath of massive tornado in Oklahoma

    A mile-wide tornado churned through the Oklahoma City suburbs, destroying homes for the second day in a row Monday, as part of a severe weather outbreak that was expected to spread to other parts of the Plains and ...

  • Kids rescued from rubble at Okla. elementary

    An Associated Press photographer saw several children being pulled out of what was left of the Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., on Monday after a massive tornado hit the ...

  • A Brief History Of Oklahoma Tornadoes

    Destruction at Midwest City, Okla., one of the towns hit by the May 5, 1999 tornadoes. Although Oklahoma is a state where tornadoes are a fact of life, few days stand out like May 3, 1999. That was when ...

  • No Safe Room Expert Shows You Where To Go In Case Of Disaster

    TULSA, Oklahoma - Even though safe rooms are becoming more common, relatively few people have one and will still need to take shelter in their homes during severe weather. So, how do you decide where to go in your home? Tim Lovell is the director of Tulsa Partners, an agency that encourages people to be ready for disasters. His first recommendation for any house, "Of course, the first ...

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