How to help Oklahoma tornado victims

The loss of life and stunning devastation in Oklahoma City suburbs after a monster tornado ripped through the area are heart-wrenching. "The streets are just gone. The signs are just gone,"

Helping Ways :

American Red Cross

The Red Cross has set up shelters in various communities. You can donate to the Red Cross Disaster Relief fund here, and the organization also suggests giving blood at your local hospital or blood bank. Fundraising efforts were buoyed Tuesday by a $1 million pledge from Kevin Durant, of the Oklahoma City Thunder basketball team, via his family foundation.

If you're searching for a missing relative, check Red Cross Safe & Well's site. And please register if you're within the disaster region. The site is designed to make communication easier after a tragedy like this. 

If you want to send a $10 donation to the Disaster Relief fund via text message, you can do so by texting the word REDCROSS to 90999. As in the case with other donations via mobile, the donation will show up on your wireless bill, or be deducted from your balance if you have a prepaid phone. You need to be 18 or older, or have parental permission, to donate this way. (If you change your mind, text the word STOP to 90999.)

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Tornado in Oklahoma At least 91 killed, including 20 children

An enormous tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs, killing at least 91 people, including 20 children Monday. The twister pulverized entire city blocks, left behind miles of mangled cars and splintered wood, and destroyed an elementary school where seven children were found dead. oklahoma news were spreaded world wide.

Crews frantically searched the wreckage and were only beginning to get a sense of the destruction when night fell hours later. Officials warned the death toll could climb. At one hospital, 85 patients, including 65 children, were being treated for minor to critical injuries.

“The whole city looks like a debris field,” said Mayor Glenn Lewis of the city of Moore, which appeared to be the hardest hit.

Time Wise Updates :

A powerful, two-mile-wide tornado tore through Moore, Okla., Monday afternoon, killing an untold number of people, leveling at least two elementary schools, and destroying countless homes and buildings in the process.

Update 8:55 p.m.: The numbers keep getting worse. The latest death toll as reported by the state medical examiner is 51, at least seven of which were children who were found dead in the rubble of the Plaza Towers Elementary School. The Associated Press, meanwhile, reports that more than 120 people—including about 70 children—are being treated at area hospitals.

Update 8:23 p.m.: The Associated Press brings us the latest fatality update and, as feared, it's not good: 37 people have been confirmed dead, according to the state medical examiner's office.

Update 7:30 p.m.: At least 10 people have been confirmed dead by the Oklahoma City medical examiner, according to NBC News. An estimated 200,000 people were believed to be in path of the tornado, so the death toll is expected to climb higher as the rescue effort continues

Update 6:52 p.m.: Still no word on an official fatality count. "Just being down here and seeing the rubble and the devastation, I can’t imagine that we won’t have any, but I pray God that we won’t," Oklahoma Highway Patrol spokeswoman Betsy Randolph told reporters.

Update 6:32 p.m.: A preliminary report from the National Weather Service rated the storm as at least an EF4, the second-worst category on the scale used by meteorologists. To earn the EF4 classification, a storm has to have winds recorded at between 166 and 200 miles per hour.

Update 6:12 p.m.: NBC News reports that all the students from 4th, 5th and 6th grade at Plaza Towers Elementary are believed to be accounted for. They appear to have been evacuated before the tornado hit, so it appears as though they were not among the 75 students previously sheltered within the school.

Update 6:03 p.m.: KFOR's meteorologist says that a conservative estimates pegs the damage from today's storm at three times that of the historic 1999 twister.

Update 5:43 p.m.: KFOR is reporting from the scene that at least 75 students and staff were sheltered inside one of the schools (Plaza Towers) when the storm hit. Police, meanwhile, have confirmed that one of the elementary schools took a direct hit from the storm, although they haven't said which one.

Update 5:30 p.m.: When you hear the anchors talk about May 3rd, they're talking about a previous tornado that hit Moore on that date in 1999. That F5 twister—which brought with it winds that topped 300 miles per hour, the most powerful ever recorded—killed three dozen people and did an estimated $1 billion worth of damage. 

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The tornado in Oklahoma touched down at 2:56 p.m., 16 minutes after the first warning went out, and traveled for 20 miles, said Keli Pirtle, a spokeswoman for the National Weather Service in Norman, Okla. It was on the ground for 40 minutes, she said. It struck the town of Newcastle and traveled about 10 miles to Moore, a populous suburb of Oklahoma City.

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The injured flooded into hospitals, and the authorities said many people remained trapped, even as rescue workers struggled to make their way through debris-clogged streets to the devastated suburb of Moore, where much of the damage occurred.

Amy Elliott, the spokeswoman for the Oklahoma City medical examiner, said at least 51 people had died, including the children, and officials said that toll was likely to climb. Hospitals reported at least 145 people injured, 70 of them children.

Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore was reduced to a pile of twisted metal and toppled walls. Rescue workers were able to pull several children from the rubble, but on Monday evening crews were still struggling to cut through fallen beams and clear debris amid reports that dozens of students were trapped. At Briarwood Elementary School in Oklahoma City, on the border with Moore, cars were thrown through the facade and the roof was torn off.

Someone said that Oklahoma weather is just awful,” she said. “It all just breaks my heart

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