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Feds take over states high-risk insurance program
SACRAMENTO (AP) — About 17,000 Californians with serious medical problems will be moved from a state-run stopgap health insurance program to a federal plan starting in July, ensuring they will have no break in medical coverage until the national health care reforms kick in next year, state officials announced this ...
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How tornado warning systems work
Dana Ulepich searches inside a room left standing at the back of her house destroyed after a powerful tornado ripped through the area on May 20, 2013 in Moore, ...
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Video Mother and daughter share stories of survival
Courtney Brown and her second-grade class took shelter in a hallway at their school; Courtney's mom rushed to what was left of the school to search for her children. The mother and daughter tell Norah O'Donnell their ...
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Video Oklahoma National Guardsmen comb through rubble
Oklahoma National Guardsmen are scanning splintered neighborhoods for any spaces big enough to shield survivors. Scott Pelley joined one of the teams during their search-and-rescue ...
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Video The next day Search-and-rescue operations become search-and-recovery efforts
Oklahoma National Guardsmen are scanning splintered neighborhoods for any spaces big enough to shield survivors. Scott Pelley joined one of the teams during their search-and-rescue ...
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Video Tornado in Moore Okla. was an EF5 the most powerful there is
With more than 300 people injured and at least 24 killed, government weather experts confirmed the twister that plowed through Moore, Okla., Monday was an EF5, which put the tornado in the most powerful classification. Scott Pelley reports on the latest from the ground in Moore, ...
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Video Saving the kids One teachers mission to keep her class safe
Courtney Brown and her second-grade class took shelter in a hallway at their school; Courtney's mom rushed to what was left of the school to search for her children. The mother and daughter tell Norah O'Donnell their ...
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Jury weighing Jodi Arias fate adjourns for day
Jodi Arias points to her family as a reason for the jury to give her a life in prison sentence instead of the death penalty on Tuesday, May 21, 2013, during the penalty phase of her murder trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in PhoenixZ. Arias was convicted of first-degree murder in the stabbing and shooting to death of Travis Alexander in his suburban Phoenix home in June 2008. (AP ...
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Mourners say Hofstra students death preventable
CORRECTS SPELLING OF LAST NAME -- In this photo copied from the 2010 Sleepy Hollow High School yearbook, high school student Andrea Rebello is shown. Police said Rebello, a junior at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., was shot and killed Friday, May 17, 2013, during a break-in near the college campus. (AP Photo/Sleepy Hollow High ...
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UN Poaching threatens central Africa peace
UNITED NATIONS -; The illegal trade in elephant ivory may constitute an important source of funding for armed groups, including the Lord's Resistance Army, threatening peace and security in central Africa, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a report to the Security ...
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Leahy steps back on gay marriage issue
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., right, confers with the committee's ranking Republican, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, May 20, 2013, as the committee assembles to work on a landmark immigration bill to secure the border and offer citizenship to millions. The panel is aiming to pass the legislation out of committee this ...
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2 more reports of anti-gay attacks in NYC
Members of the LGBT community and their supporters gather to speak out after a string a bias attacks, including the fatal shooting of 32-year old Mark Carson on Saturday, during a rally in New York's Greenwich Village, Monday, May 20, 2013. A spate of hate-fueled attacks on gay men in New York, including a killing last week on a busy street in one of Manhattan's most gay-friendly ...
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An ‘EF-4 or 5 tornado is going to overwhelm the best engineering’
In the aftermath of the deadly tornado in Moore, Okla., many people are asking why homes weren't built with shelters to withstand tornado force winds. Julie Rochman, President and CEO of the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety, explains what can be done to help protect homes -- and lives -- in Tornado ...
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2 FBI agents who died remembered for valor
Two FBI agents who died while training off the Virginia Beach coast fell to their deaths when a helicopter had trouble during a "maritime counterterrorism exercise," an agency spokeswoman said Monday ...
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Helping those who lost everything
From two neighbors who bought and distributed work gloves to homeowners in need to a veterinarian leading the effort to find pets lost in the ruin, those who were more fortunate reached out to those devastated by the tornado's damage. NBC's Janet Shamlian ...
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Homeowners slowly return to destroyed neighborhoods
The 17-mile-long twister destroyed the landscape of Moore, Okla., in 40 petrifying minutes and killed at least 24 people including nine children. NBC's Lester Holt ...
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Ex-Cincy IRS official doubts agencys explanation for Tea Party scandal
A woman who worked in the IRS Cincinnati office at the center of controversy over targeting of conservative groups says she doubts that the blame resides with front-line employees, as the agency has ...
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Growing cities become tornado target
As our metropolitan areas grow bigger it's becoming harder for tornadoes to miss the cities - that, more than the weather itself, is what is changing, according to severe weather expert Dr. Greg Forbes. He tells Brian Williams the Oklahoma damage is "the worst I've ...
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Oklahoma mother reunited with her children
When Janna Ketchie realized the tornado was headed toward her childrens' daycare center she wasn't sure if she would ever see them again. After struggling to find her sons for hours she finally located them, safe and sound. NBC's Ann Curry spoke to Ketchie at the Oklahoma University Medical ...
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Volunteer ‘It felt good to help’
it does feel good. it felt -- you know, there was a guy about 70 years old that we picked up out of there and just hugging him. and we said, man, are you okay? where are you hurting at? and he said all over. and, you know, thinking about that last night, i couldn't hardly sleep. it felt pretty good to help those people. and i didn't -- you know, these other people that are trained more ...
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Fallin ‘Oklahoma standard’ is neighbor helping neighbor
NBC's Brian Williams spoke to Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin who described the spirit of Oklahomans in a time of crisis, saying they'll do whatever it takes to help fellow man and that faith is very important to the state as residents pick up the pieces of their ...
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Comprehending the tornado’s damage in Moore Oklahoma
The Weather Channel's Mike Bettes and Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett join Rev. Sharpton to describe the damage they've seen in Moore so far, and how the city is preparing the long process of recovery and ...
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Hero nurse helps save newborn baby and mother in Moore
Nurse Cheryl Stoepker of the Moore Medical Center explains how she protected a newborn child and his mother as the tornado wreaked havoc on the hospital building they hid ...
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‘It was my home. And now it’s gone’
here some homes are now treacherous landscapes. shirley mccartney took me into what's left of her bedroom where she found two crosses unharmed by the deadly tornado. and they were still on the ...
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May the spirit of Moore inspire us to help
As we take inspiration from the heroic stories we're learning from those who stepped up for each other in Moore Oklahoma, Rev. Sharpton explains why it's time for all of us to step up and help our fellow ...
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California prison labor?
California has a famously large budget deficit, budget cuts are being made to a number of state programs and services, but what hasn’t been considered is the cost avoidance potential of the state’s over 40,000 minimum-security prisoner’s, many of whom are already saving the state money by providing labor in return for shorter sentences.
With California budget deficit expected to be somewhere between $12 billion or as high as $25 billion for 2010 alone, state legislators have been anxiously looking for ways to reduce state expenses, cutting budgets wherever possible, but already existing programs operated by the state may present an opportunity for cost-savings in the areas of construction, services and maintenance of buildings and amenities. Read more
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