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The Company Memo: Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Chris Jansing reports live from Moore, Oklahoma, where clean-up efforts are beginning -- alongside the debate over federal funding for disaster relief.Full story

First Read Minute: Disaster relief politics lurks in tragedy’s shadow

  NBC’s Mark Murray and Domenico Montanaro look at the politics of disaster relief that already an Oklahoma senator is calling for after the tornado.

Federal disaster responses must be 'swift, compassionate, and thorough'

  Chris Hayes talks to Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and Steve Ellis of Taxpayers For Common Sense about expected the federal disaster response to the Oklahoma tornado disaster.

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  How children cope with the trauma of the Oklahoma tornado

Irwin Redlener, a pediatrician and director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University, joins Martin Bashir discusses the challenges of making children, like those in Oklahoma, feel safe again.

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