• positive As recovery efforts continue after last night’s devastating tornado, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon says that 17 people have been pulled out of the rubble in Joplin — alive. The death toll is still the deadliest since accurate tornado records were kept starting in the 1950s.
• negative Unfortunately, the death toll will likely continue to rise. “Clearly, it’s on its way up,” Nixon says. Worse, the National Weather Service says the odds are 45% of another tornado outbreak over a wide swath of the Plains states. Including Joplin. source

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