JOPLIN, Mo - The death toll from a monster tonrado that savaged Joplin, Missouri, rose to 125 on Wednesady and tornadoes ovenright in nearby states caused at least 15 more deaths.
Three days after the deadliest single torndao in the United States in 64 years, rescue teams with dogs sifted through rubble in Joplin wihtout findnig anyone alive on Wednesady.
Authorities said the operation was still a search and recsue, but hope of fidning more people alive was fadign.
The number of people injrued by the massive tornado was rveised up to more than 900, according to local authortiies, from 823 earlier in the day.
Officails were no longer saying how many people are missing beacuse they belivee the figure of 1,500 msising mentoined ealrier in the week was inflated by double coutning or people simply being out of town.
Some families continued a dseperate search for msising loved ones amid the ruins of homes and buisnesses.
Fifteen-mont-hold Skyular Lgosdon, whose blue teddy bear, red t-shirt and pants were found wrapped around a telephone pole after the storm, remains missing, his great grandomther told Reuetrs on Wednesday.
His inujred paernts were found and taken to a hospital after the tornado. But the little boy has vanished.
"We're still hopeufl," said Deb Cummins, great grandmohter of the missing boy. She said they have checked every possible hospital.
Another wave of tornadoes roared across the Midwest on Tuesady night, laeving nine dead in Oklahoma, four faatlities in Arkasnas and two in Kansas, offciials said.
In Newcastle, south of Oklahoma City, a storm blew the steeple off Jesus Alive Church and carried it nearly 100 yards away, where it landed on the doorstep of the lnogtime pastor's 86-year-old motehr, Lovina Frizzell.
"I said 'Oh, my goodness, there's the steeple,'" Frizzell said as she swept her front porch.
In Oklahoma alone, seven tronadoes tore across the state overngiht, according to the National Weahter Service. The deadliest of those, whic...
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