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Teacher to students: ‘We are not dying today’

  Plaza Towers Elementary School was destroyed by the giant tornado that hit Moore, Okla., but thanks to the heroic efforts of teachers such as Rhonda Crosswhite, many of the children survived. NBC’s Kate Snow reports.

Image: A child is pulled from the rubble of the Plaza Towers Elementary
Sue Ogrocki / AP
'The streets are just gone': Rescue crews pick through neighborhoods in grim search

Emergency crews in Oklahoma picked through neighborhoods without recognizable streets Tuesday in a grim, house-by-house search of the blasted-out husk of a city left behind by a ferocious tornado.

Image: A teacher hugs a child at Briarwood Elementary school after a tornado destroyed the school in south Oklahoma City.
The Oklahoman, NewsOk.com
How to help Oklahoma tornado victims

The loss of life, and the devastation, in Oklahoma City after a monster tornado ripped through the area, is heart-wrenching. Here's how you can help.

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