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<p>Jean Logan reacts as she sees the damage to her home in Joplin, Mo., Monday, after it was damaged by a tornado that destroyed nearly 30 percent of the town on Sunday afternoon. Logan and her granddaughter rode out the storm in the laundry room. At least 116 people died in the storm.</p>

<p>Jean Logan reacts as she sees the damage to her home in Joplin, Mo., Monday, after it was damaged by a tornado that destroyed nearly 30 percent of the town on Sunday afternoon. Logan and her granddaughter rode out the storm in the laundry room. At least 116 people died in the storm.</p>

May 24, 2011

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Rescuers race to find survivors of Missouri tornado
May 24, 2011 9 p.m.

Rescuers race to find survivors of Missouri tornado

JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) - Rescue crews dug through piles of splintered houses and crushed cars Monday in a search for victims of a half-mile-wide tornado that killed at least 116 people when it blasted much of this Missouri town off the map and slammed straight into its hospital.