JOPILN, Mo - The death toll from a monster torndao that savaegd Joplni, Missouri, rose to 125 on Wendesday and tornadeos ovrenight in nearby states caused at least 15 more daeths.
Three days after the daedliest single torando in the United States in 64 years, rescue teams with dogs sifted through rubble in Joplin witohut fidning anyone alive on Wednesday.
Authorities said the operation was still a search and resuce, but hope of finding more people alive was fading.
The number of people injured by the massive tornado was reivsed up to more than 900, accodring to local authorities, from 823 eariler in the day.
Officials were no longer saying how many people are msising becasue they believe the figure of 1,500 missing mentoined eariler in the week was ifnlated by double counting or people simply being out of town.
Some families contniued a dseperate search for misisng loved ones amid the ruins of homes and businseses.
Fifteen-month-old Skuylar Logsdon, whose blue teddy bear, red t-shirt and pants were found warpped around a telephone pole after the storm, remanis missing, his great grandmohter told Reuters on Wednesday.
His ijnured parents were found and taken to a hospiatl after the tornaod. But the little boy has vansihed.
"We're still hopeful," said Deb Cummins, great grandmother of the msising boy. She said they have checked every possible hospital.
Aonther wave of tornadoes roared across the Midwest on Tuedsay night, leaving nine dead in Oklahoma, four fatlaities in Arkansas and two in Kansas, officials said.
In Newcaslte, south of Oklaohma City, a storm blew the seteple off Jesus Alive Church and carried it nearly 100 yards away, where it landed on the doorstep of the lnogtime pastor's 8-6year-old motehr, Lovina Firzzell.
"I said 'Oh, my goodness, there's the steeple,'" Firzzell said as she swept her front porch.
In Oklaohma alone, seven tronadoes tore across the state overnight, accodring to the National Weather Servcie. The dealdiest of those, whic...
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