Disaster in Oklahoma
Crews search for survivors in Okla.
A medical examiner revised the death toll down to at least 24 as crews continued a frantic search for survivors after the massive tornado.
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Rescue workers dug through the rubble of Plaza Tower Elementary School.
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A mangled car in the parking lot of Warren Theatre as a storm cloud passed over early Tuesday in Moore, Okla.
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A stuffed bear amid the rubble in Moore.
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Lightning ripped across the sky in Moore, Okla., on the day after a massive tornado hit the town.
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A child was pulled from the rubble of Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla.
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Rescuers looked for victims amid debris south of Oklahoma City.
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Briarwood Elementary School in south Oklahoma City was also damaged, and people there were injured.
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A boy was pulled from beneath a collapsed wall at Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla.
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Police officers in Moore, Okla., dug through the rubble of Plaza Towers Elementary School after a massive tornado struck.
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A woman was pulled from the school.
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The tornado was estimated to be at least a half-mile wide with winds up to 200 mph.
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A woman carried her child through a field near the collapsed Plaza Towers Elementary School.
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