Amy Elliott of the state's medical examiner's office told The Associated Press early Tuesday that officials could see as many as 40 more deaths from the Monday's twister. More photos after the cut...
President Obama declared a major disaster in Oklahoma late Monday as search-and-rescue efforts continued throughout the night.
More than 120 people were being treated at hospitals, including about 50 children, after the ferocious storm ripped through the suburb of Moore in a Midwest region of the U.S. known as Tornado Alley.
Catastrophic damage was reported in Moore, which was flattened by another killer tornado that tracked the same path 14 years ago.
All around Moore on Monday night, grim-faced police officers and sheriff's deputies guarded darkened intersections, their boots crunching on the debris littering the ground.
Several children were pulled alive from the rubble of Plaza Towers Elementary, but some of their classmates were killed. About a mile away, the walls tumbled down at Briarwood Elementary. Miraculously, no one there died.
KFOR-TV reported that seven of the dead were children from Plaza Towers, where 75 students and staff members were huddled when the tornado struck. U.S.
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