The residents of Moore, Okla., began to pick up the pieces of their destroyed community Tuesday after a massive tornado more than a mile wide swept through the Oklahoma City suburb, destroying homes and killing at least 24 residents, including nine children. As survivors turn to state and federal authorities for immediate assistance, Oklahoma’s Republican senators, James Inhofe and Tom Coburn, are now faced with a dilemma as vocal critics of previous disaster-aid bills they deemed “wasteful federal spending.”
It was one of the worst storms that Brandon Sullivan had ever witnessed in his eight years chasing and recording storms across Oklahoma.
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