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Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at 8:47 PM
9-Year-Old Among First Tornado Victims Identified
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A 9-year-old girl is among the first of the Oklahoma tornado victims to be identified, NBC News reported. Third-grader Ja'Nae Hornsby, who was "always smiling" was one of the students who died when the tornado slammed into Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., on Monday afternoon. Grieving family members gathered Tuesday at a Baptist church in Oklahoma City to console each other after a night of anxious waiting ended with a devastating call from the medical examiner's office. Ja'Nae's father tried to race back home to pick her up from school and pick up his two-year-old from daycare as the twister bore down on the Moore suburb. By the time he got there, the school had been reduced to a pile of rubble and the parking lot was transformed into a triage area for surviving students. Click through to read more about the frantic search for Ja'Nae Hornsby.
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013 at 6:16 AM
Courage Amid Chaos as Tornado Destroys School
The powerful tornado that tore through Moore, Okla., on Monday hit hard Plaza Towers Elementary School, where children sheltered inside from the roaring gusts, even as the building began to come apart around them. The winds and flying debris from the mile-wide tornado claimed at least two dozen lives, the Oklahoma medical examiner said on Tuesday, according to NBC News. Nine of those victims were children. The seven students who were killed at Plaza Towers, a single-story cinder block building that was leveled in the storm, were found dead in a pool of water, authorities said. Another student died at Briarwood Elementary, less than two miles away. School officials had long planned for a tornado, but they were not ready for such such a devastating one, with EF-5 category winds that topped 200 mph.
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at 3:57 PM
Army General Suspended from Duties Amid Adultery Investigation
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An army general being investigated for adultery and for being involved in a physical altercation has been suspended, NBC News reported. Army Brigadier General Bryan T. Roberts, the Commanding General of the U.S. Army Training Center in Fort Jackson, S.C. was allegedly involved in an altercation with an unidentified woman and is being investigated for reportedly having an affair with her, a U.S. military official told NBC News. The two were apparently making up after an argument when Robert allegedly bit the woman's lip, prompting her to seek medical help. While the investigation is ongoing, Brig. Gen. Peggy Combs, Commandant of the U.S. Army Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear School at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, will serve as the interim commander.
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at 9:55 AM
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Search, Rescue Winds Down a Day After Tornado
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After a tireless day of searching for survivors from Monday's massive tornado in Oklahoma, officials said the search and rescue operation would end by nightfall on Tuesday, NBC News reported. Moore's fire chief said at a news conference that crews will comb through the city at least three times before they're done.
President Obama vowed to help victims get needed assistance "right away" after the category EF-5 tornado tore through the suburbs of Oklahoma City, killing at least 24 people. Gov. Mary Fallin said there were 237 injuries "that we know of" and there were no firm numbers on those killed. The Oklahoma Medical Examiner's Office said that nine children were among 24 confirmed dead, revising down an earlier death toll more than twice as high. Seven of the dead were children who drowned at Plaza Towers Elementary School. Nine-year-old Plaza Tower student Ja'Nae Hornsby was the the first victim to be identified in the aftermath of the twister, followed by 65-year-old Hemant Bhonde, who was separated from his wife when the tornado struck. The tornado tore a 20-mile path during its 40 minutes on the ground, while kicking up a cloud of debris about two miles wide.
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at 7:24 PM
IRS Official Asserts Fifth Amendment Right at House Hearing
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A top IRS official scheduled to testify on Wednesday before the House Oversight Committee has asserted her fifth amendment right and refuses to answer questions, NBC News reported. Lois Lerner, head of the IRS unit that handles tax-exempt organizations, won't answer questions on what she knows about the targeting of conservative groups or about why she failed to alert Congress that such targeting was happening, according to a letter from her lawyer. Her lawyer wrote, "She has not committed any crime or made any misrepresentation, but under the circumstances she has no choice but to take this course." Some members of Congress have called for Lerner's termination and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) accused her of giving false and misleading testimony to Congress.
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at 3:22 PM
Apple CEO: "We Pay All the Taxes We Owe"
Apple CEO Tim Cook was grilled before a Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearing Tuesday after the subcommittee found that Apple had avoided paying taxes on billions in profits by keeping them parked in Irish subsidiaries. "We pay all the taxes we owe — every single dollar," Cook told lawmakers. "We don't depend on tax gimmicks." He stressed that Apple is the nation's largest corporate taxpayer and that he supports an overhaul of the U.S. tax code. Subcommittee staffers said before the hearing that Apple was not breaking any laws, Reuters reported. But committee chairman Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan urged closing "unjustified tax loopholes" that had allowed Apple to avoided $9 billion in U.S. taxes in 2012. Sen. John McCain added that Apple's tax strategy reflected "a flawed corporate system." Apple's main subsidiary in Ireland, "Apple Operations International," has not paid any corporate income taxes in the last five years, the subcommittee's report found.
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at 8:59 AM
Accused Fort Hood Shooter Paid $278K While Awaiting Trial
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Accused Fort Hood shooter Major Nidal Hasan has been paid more than $278,000 since the November 2009 shooting that left 13 dead 32 injured, the Department of Defense confirmed to NBC 5 DFW. The Army said under the Military Code of Justice, Hasan’s salary cannot be suspended unless he is proven guilty. Meanwhile, more than three years after the Fort Hood mass shooting wounded soldiers are fighting to receive the same pay and medical benefits given to those wounded in combat. Click through for the full story.
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