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Moore, Oklahoma tornado updates throughout Tuesday

Clean-up efforts are underway in the wake of deadly, destructive tornado that carved a devastating 20 mile path south of Oklahoma City Monday.  The massive storm, up to a mile wide and with estimated winds of at least 200 mph, flattened entire neighborhoods and destroyed an elementary school in Moore, Okla. The state medical examiner’s office has confirmed 24 people have died. MOORE, Okla. Law enforcement officials have blocked entry into the worst-hit neighborhoods around Moore.
Just outside one barricade at Fourth and Wilson, Robin Wood camped out with 25 cases of water bought by her church, the Community Church of Lawton. Over the day, a small tent area arose stocked full of food, clothes, toys and piles of bottled water. Residents of the town bring bags full of donations, while rescue workers cross the barrier for cups of coffee and water. “People bring more and more and people keep taking and taking,” Wood, 37, says. The stay-at-home mom hasn’t slept in more than 32 hours, and other volunteers kept telling her to sit down and rest, but she kept bounding out of the chair to unload new deliveries.

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