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Search for survivors after massive Oklahoma tornado
The search for survivors is underway after a two mile-wide tornado tore through Oklahoma City, trapping victims beneath rubble and flattening a school.

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Tornado survivor: 'We clung to our desks' - video

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Seven-year-old schoolgirl Isabella Rojas describes how she and her classmates clung to their desks as a tornado destroyed their school in Oklahoma.

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video 21 May 2013 World, United States

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President Barack Obama declares a major disaster in Oklahoma after a powerful tornado wrecks schools and other buildings.

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Tornado sweeps through Oklahoma town - video

A two-mile tornado rips through Moore, Oklahoma, overturning cars, flattening buildings and destroying neighbourhoods.

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There is something awesome, terrifying, beyond our immediate comprehension. Hot air, cold air, debris, devastation. We are talking tornado. But in the case of last night’s horrific assault on the Oklahoma City suburb of of Moore, we’re talking more than tornado, writes Jon Snow… Sign up for Snowmail to find out what’s on tonight’s Channel 4 News

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US President Obama tells the people of Moore “their country will remain on the ground, there for them, beside them, as long as it takes”.

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The path of the Oklahoma City tornado - see our graphic.

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Seven-year-old schoolgirl Isaabella Rojas describes how she and her classmates clung to their desks as a tornado destroyed their Oklahoma school.

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Peterson Zatterlee and his friend, Abby Madi, comfort his dog Rippy, who is recovering from the tornado in Moore, Oklahoma.

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One Oklahoma tornado survivor gets a welcome surprise when her dog emerges from the rubble, mid interview. Read more on the story here

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Homes are left devastated and over 90 feared dead after a huge tornado rips through the suburbs of Oklahoma City.

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Comedy writer Eddie Braben, the third man behind the success of Morecambe and Wise, died this morning at the age of 82 after a short illness, his manager Norma Farnes said today.

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