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  LIVE VIDEO: KFOR-TV's coverage on Oklahoma tornado

  

  Posted 9:34 AM 5/21/2013

  Severe weather ripped through the state. For more coverage from NBC affiliate KFOR-TV go to http://www.kfor.com.

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  Hospitals treat more than 200 after Okla. tornado

  Posted 8:40 AM 5/21/2013 by Associated Press

  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Hospital officials say they've treated more than 200 patients, including dozens of children, since a tornado ripped through suburban Oklahoma City.About 20 patients remained at one hospital Tuesday, but it wasn't clear how many patients remained hospitalized at (More)

  
  

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  Obama offers help for Oklahoma tornado victims

  Posted 7:23 AM 5/21/2013 by Associated Press

  WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama says he is instructing his disaster response team to get tornado victims in Oklahoma everything they need "right away."Obama calls the devastation that tore through the Oklahoma City suburbs, quote, "one of the most destructive tornados in (More)

  
  

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  Medical examiner: 24 dead in Oklahoma twister

  Posted 6:35 AM 5/21/2013 by Associated Press

  MOORE, Okla. (AP) - The state medical examiner's office has revised the death toll from a tornado in an Oklahoma City suburb to 24 people, including seven children.Spokeswoman Amy Elliot said Tuesday morning that she believes some victims were counted twice in the early chaos of the (More)

  
  

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  President Obama to speak on Oklahoma disaster

  Posted 4:02 AM 5/21/2013 by Associated Press

  WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama will be meeting with his disaster response team, including Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, on Tuesday before delivering a statement on the devastating tornado that tore through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday.Obama has declared a (More)

  
  

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  Crews dig through night after deadly Okla. twister

  Posted 2:11 AM 5/21/2013 by Associated Press

  MOORE, Okla. (AP) - Rescue crews are working through the night after a monstrous tornado barreled through the Oklahoma City suburbs, demolishing an elementary school and reducing homes to piles of splintered wood.Officials say at least 51 people were killed in Monday's twister (More)

  
  

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  10 Things to Know for Tuesday

  Posted 11:16 PM 5/20/2013 by Associated Press

  Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Tuesday.

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  FBI: Agents fell to deaths training off Va. coast

  Posted 11:15 PM 5/20/2013 by Associated Press

  NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - An FBI spokeswoman says two agents who died while training off the Virginia Beach coast fell to their deaths during a "maritime counterterrorism exercise involving helicopters and a ship." The agents were part of the agency's elite hostage rescue team, a group (More)

  
  

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  Average credit card debt, late payments fall in 1Q

  Posted 11:14 PM 5/20/2013 by Associated Press

  LOS ANGELES (AP) - New consumer credit data show that Americans were more diligent about making their card payments on time in the first three months of the year. Credit reporting agency TransUnion says the rate of credit card payments at least 90 days overdue fell to 0.69 percent in (More)

  
  

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  More confirmed injuries from OK tornadoes

  Posted 7:59 PM 5/20/2013 by Associated Press

  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Officials at two hospitals say they've been treating more than 140 patients, including about 70 children, since a massive tornado hit suburban Oklahoma City.

  Spokeswoman Brooke Cayot (KAY'-ot) says nine of 57 patients who are being treated at the Integris Southwest (More)