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Donnie Bessinger looked through the rubble of his tornado-ravaged home in Moore, Okla. AP Photo

A destroyed police car sat among the debris of tornado-ravaged homes in Moore, Okla. AP Photo

A man looked through debris for belongings in a home the day after a killer tornado hit in Moore, Okla. Ed Zurga / EPA

Denny (left) and Nichole Willis (right) and Cindy Carter searched through the rubble of a home in Moore, Okla. Tannen Maury / EPA

As dawn broke, storm clouds rolled in over a destroyed neighborhood the day after a tornado hit in Moore, Okla. President Barack Obama declared a major disaster in the state. EPA/ Ed Zurga

Two girls stood in rubble after a tornado struck Moore, Okla. A 2-mile-wide tornado killed dozens of people while destroying entire tracts of homes, piling cars atop one another, and trapping two dozen school children beneath rubble. Reuters/Gene Blevins

Children waited for their parents to arrive at Briarwood Elementary School after a tornado destroyed the school. AP Photo/ The Oklahoman, Paul Hellstern

Emergency workers rescued a woman who was trapped in a destroyed building off 4th Street and Interstate 35 in Moore, Okla. AP Photo/ The Transcript,Kyle Phillips

This aerial photo shows damage to Plaza Towers Elementary School after it was hit by a massive tornado in Moore, Okla. AP/ Steve Gooch

Rescuers searched through overturned vehicles and other rubble left behind after a devastating tornado tore across Moore, Okla. Reuters/ Gene Blevins

Teachers carried children away from Briarwood Elementary school after a tornado destroyed the school in south Oklahoma City, Okla. AP Photo/ The Oklahoman, Paul Hellstern

Rebekah Stuck hugged her son, Aiden, 7, after she found him in front of the destroyed Briarwood Elementary School. Aiden was inside the school when it was hit. AP Photo/ The Oklahoman, Nate Billings

Destroyed cars were strewn along Interstate 35 after a tornado struck Moore, Okla., with winds of up to 200 miles per hour. Reuters/Gene Blevins

Two men stood in front of the Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla. AP Photo/ The Oklahoman, Bryan Terry

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