Natural Disasters

Young Oklahoma tornado victim is remembered for 'loving spirit'

2013-05-23 13:10:00

Hundreds gathered� under stormy skies in Oklahoma City on Thursday to mourn 9-year-old Antonia Lee Candelaria, one of seven children who died when a tornado leveled their elementary school Monday. It was the first of the funerals for the 24 victims of...

Oklahoma tornado toll at 24 dead, 377 hurt as recovery speeds up

2013-05-23 15:12:00

MOORE, Okla. -- As this devastated city buried the first victim of this week’s tornado, officials announced that the human toll appeared to be final at 24 dead and 377 injured. Led by Gov. Mary Fallin, state and local officials said at a news...

Drowning most common fatality during Superstorm Sandy

2013-05-23 15:13:00

The leading cause of death during Superstorm Sandy last fall was drowning, according to a new report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The report, which analyzed 117 storm-related deaths, comes amid a National Oceanic and...

Bad weather in Oklahoma hinders recovery in hard-hit Moore

2013-05-23 09:17:00

MOORE, Okla. -- A band of thunderstorms put this city further on edge Thursday as the grim task of burying the dead from this week’s deadly tornado began. Pelting rain combined with strong winds to knock over some relief tents, drenching...

Names of those killed in Oklahoma tornado include 10 children

2013-05-22 17:05:00

Officials in Oklahoma on Wednesday released the names of the 24 people killed in the tornado that ripped through Oklahoma City and the suburb of Moore earlier this week. Ten children were among the victims. The youngest, a boy named Case Futrell, was...

Hauling off the dead horses that couldn't outrun Oklahoma tornado

2013-05-23 07:00:00

When a tornado rages across the plains of Oklahoma, the immediate focus is on people, pets and property. Largely forgotten are the horses, cattle and other large livestock caught in a twister’s path. These animals were thrown, twisted and...

Tornado cleanup: Muddy headstones, a tilted Jesus, a stray photo

2013-05-22 16:17:00

MOORE, Okla.--The Moore Cemetery was full of life on Wednesday. Hundreds of volunteers, clutching shovels, rakes and trash bags, marched down SW 4th Street to go to work in this vast, normally flat grassland where the city has buried its dead since...

The numbers are staggering, says mayor from tornado-torn Oklahoma

2013-05-22 15:04:00

MOORE, Okla. --� After closing shattered neighborhoods to traffic in the aftermath of Monday’s massive tornado, city officials allowed residents with proper IDs to drive to what remained of their homes Wednesday to retrieve belongings. During a...

Oklahoma turns to mammoth task of cleanup after tornado

2013-05-22 18:51:00

MOORE, Okla. — Under a sunny sky, residents of this Oklahoma City suburb began cleaning up debris from the monstrous tornado that inflicted death and destruction — bodies of animals, overturned cars, homes reduced to rubble — as more...

Powerful tornado slams Moore, Okla.

2013-05-21 17:24:26

Tornado survivor huddled with dogs as house started moving

2013-05-21 18:50:00

MOORE, Okla. — When Josephine Owings heard the shriek of tornado sirens Monday afternoon, she scooped up her "babies" — her tiny lap dogs, Emma and Harley — and took shelter in her bathroom. Her cell phone rang. It was her daughter-in-...

Scientist's video, radar track birth of Oklahoma tornado [VIDEO]

2013-05-21 15:30:00

Monday’s killer twister in Moore, Okla., intensified unusually rapidly, said a tornado researcher who tracked the storm from a perch about five miles away. "One thing that really surprised me was how quickly it developed," said Robin Tanamachi,...

Eric Lowery looks at tornado-ravaged vehicles while retrieving items from his mother's car at a destroyed strip mall. Cleanup continues two days after a huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore.

2013-05-22 00:00:00

TOPSHOTS Standy Stewart (R) and her pregnant daughter-in-law Robyn Rojas have their dinner at what left of their tornado devastated home on May 21, 2013 in Moore, Oklahoma.

2013-05-22 00:00:00

MOORE, OK - MAY 21: An aerial view of destroyed houses and buildings after a powerful tornado ripped through the area on May 21, 2013 in Moore, Oklahoma.

2013-05-22 00:00:00