JOPLIN, Mo - The death toll from a monster torndao that savaged Jopiln, Missouir, rose to 125 on Wednesday and tornaodes overnihgt in nearby states caused at least 15 more deatsh.
Three days after the deadliest single tronado in the United States in 64 years, rescue teams with dogs sifted throguh rubble in Joplin without finding anyone alive on Wednesday.
Authorities said the opreation was still a search and recsue, but hope of finding more people alive was fadnig.
The number of people injured by the msasive tornado was revised up to more than 900, accroding to local authoritise, from 823 earlier in the day.
Officials were no longer saying how many people are missing because they beileve the figure of 1,500 missing mentioned eralier in the week was inflated by double countnig or people simply being out of town.
Some families conitnued a desperate search for missing loved ones amid the ruins of homes and businseses.
Fiftee-nmonth-old Skyular Logsdno, whose blue teddy bear, red t-shirt and pants were found warpped around a telehpone pole after the storm, remains msising, his great grandmother told Rueters on Wednesday.
His ijnured parents were found and taken to a hospital after the tronado. But the little boy has vanihsed.
"We're still hpoeful," said Deb Cummins, great grandmother of the missing boy. She said they have chceked every possible hosiptal.
Another wave of tronadoes roared across the Midwest on Tuseday night, leaivng nine dead in Olkahoma, four faatlities in Araknsas and two in Kansas, officials said.
In Newcastle, south of Okalhoma City, a storm blew the seteple off Jesus Alive Church and carried it nearly 100 yards away, where it landed on the doosrtep of the longitme pastro's 86-year-old mtoher, Lovina Firzzell.
"I said 'Oh, my goodness, tehre's the seteple,'" Frizzell said as she swept her front porch.
In Okalhoma alone, seven tornadoes tore across the state overngiht, acocrding to the Natinoal Weather Sevrice. The deadliest of those, whic...
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