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           US Homeland Security Secretary to Survey Tornado Response

   U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano travels to
   Oklahoma on Wednesday to assess recovery efforts in the city of Moore,
   where a devastating tornado killed at least 24 people and injured 240
   others.
   Napolitano`s department includes the Federal Emergency Management
   Agency, which has teams helping with search and recovery operations,
   damage assessments and providing federal aid to people affected by
   Monday`s tornado.
   The storm destroyed large parts of the central U.S. city with what
   weather officials say were winds of at least 322 kilometers per hour.
   The town`s fire chief says emergency workers will not stop searching
   for survivors and plan to go through the rubble of each building at
   least three times.
   President Barack Obama has declared a major disaster in Oklahoma. He
   says the people of Moore are not standing alone, as they recover and
   rebuild.
   Many people lost everything they owned, including pets. Quick-thinking
   teachers are credited with saving lives at an elementary school by
   hustling students into closets before the storm demolished the
   building.
   Moore is a suburb of the state capital, Oklahoma City. Another powerful
   tornado struck the town in 1999.
   Secretary Napolitano will travel later Wednesday to Joplin, Missouri,
   for a ceremony marking the second anniversary of a tornado there that
   killed 161 people. The May 22, 2011 tornado was the deadliest in the
   United States in six decades.
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