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Hydrochloric Acid Vapor Cloud Prompts Tulsa Business Evacuation

TULSA, Oklahoma - Tulsa Fire evacuated a local business early Friday as a precaution after a vapor cloud of hydrochloric acid was spotted next to a nearby railroad tank car. Just after midnight, employees of Tulsa Recycling on North Peoria called Tulsa Fire after seeing the vapor cloud. The tank car was located on a siding behind Brainerd Chemical next door. Fire officials determined the ...
Moore Teacher Injured In Tornado Takes Her First Steps

MOORE, Oklahoma - Earlier this week, we told you about Jennifer Doan, the Moore elementary teacher who used her own body to protect some of her students during Monday's deadly tornado. Some feared her injuries would keep her from ever walking again. Three days ago as the storm bore down on her school, Jennifer Doan covered her third grade students with her body. CBS News reporter ...
Train Helps Police End Chase In Inola

INOLA, Oklahoma - A man and a woman are in custody after a police chase early Friday across Wagoner and Rogers counties. Coweta Police say the chase began in their community, when a police officer attempted to stop a van for having a "bogus license plate" just after 3:30 a.m. The van sped off, leading police out of Wagoner County into Rogers County and into Inola. At one point ...
Blake Shelton Carrie Underwood Coming To Aid Of Oklahomans

And Underwood is donating $1 million in proceeds from her recent Blown Away Tour to the Red Cross, which assists in disasters such as the one that devastated Moore, ...
Pace Slows In Testing After Tulsa Dentist Health Scare

TULSA, Oklahoma - Additional tests reveal no new cases of hepatitis or the virus that causes AIDS among patients of a Tulsa oral surgeon accused of running dirty clinics. The state Department of Health says the pace of people seeking testing has slowed. About 3,900 patients of Dr. W. Scott Harrington have gone to state clinics for testing. In March, health departments urged testing for 7,000 ...

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2 held after Pakistan-UK flight diverted

Police arrested two men Friday on suspicion of endangering an aircraft after a flight from Pakistan to the United Kingdom was diverted to Stansted Airport, outside of ...
Business recovery center to open in Okla.

Live Wire: Tornado recovery updates The U.S. Small Business Administration's recovery center was scheduled to open Friday morning at the Moore Norman Technology Center's South Penn Campus. Oklahoma Small Business Development Center Director Bill Carter says counselors will be on hand to help business owners overcome the effects of the tornado that tore through Moore this week. He says ...
Legion giving $1M to Okla. tornado victim veterans

Live Wire: Tornado recovery updates The Indianapolis-based veterans organization announced this week the money will be used to cover relocation expenses for veterans and their families whose homes were devastated by the disaster. The Legion also provided relief funds after Hurricane Sandy, Hurricane Katrina and other natural disasters. With a current membership of 2.4-million wartime veterans, ...
OHP searching for teen who jumped off Kingfisher bridge

According to investigators, the teen jumped into the water and no one saw him come back up. Kingfisher officials requested help from the OHP dive team Thursday ...
OKC man sentenced in theft of funds from retirement home resident

An Oklahoma City man was sentenced Thursday to 37 months in prison in connection with the theft of money from a resident at a metro retirement home, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States attorney for the Western District of ...

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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 161 dead.

Nonetheless, a spokesperson from Doak's office told EFE that these are still very preliminary estimates and are based solely on a visual evaluation of the devastated area.

Mick Cornett, mayor of Oklahoma City, a scant 20 km from Moore, estimated the losses between $1.5 billion and $2 billion, and the number of citizens affected at 36,000.

The National Weather Service classified the tornado as an EF5 - the most powerful - with winds of at least 320 kph (200 mph).

More than 13,000 homes were damaged by the tornado.

US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano toured Moore Wednesday and promised government aid to speed up the work of reconstruction.

The White House announced that President Barack Obama will visit Moore next Sunday to inspect "at first hand" the damage caused by the tornado.

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