Update: Tornadoes hit US

Update: 116 people killed in one city ... the worst since 1953.


http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/05/23/national/main20065247.shtml

Update: Tornado Strikes a Missouri City, Hitting a Hospital and Killing Many

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/24/us/24tornado.html?smid=tw-nytimes&seid=auto

Update: And here is an unreal slideshow:


http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/23/us/20110523_TORNADO_600.html

A tornado steamrolled over Joplin, Mo., on Sunday night, knocking out a hospital and killing dozens of people across the city, according to various reports.

Joplin, which was in the direct path of the tornado, was left isolated and in the dark after the destruction, with telephone connections largely cut off and many homes without electricity after the twister touched down around 6 p.m.

Reuters quoted the Newton County coroner, Mark Bridges, as saying about 30 people had been killed, and 11 bodies had been recovered from just one location. 

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=136563371

Tornadoes ripped through parts of the Midwest on Sunday, killing at least one person in Minneapolis and an unknown number of others in a Missouri town where a hospital was hit.
Damage was widespread across the south side of Joplin. John Campbell, operations director for the Missouri State Emergency Management Agency, confirmed fatalities have been reported, but he did not yet have an exact number or specifics.
Phone communications in and out of the city of about 50,000 people about 160 miles south of Kansas City were largely cut off.