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This combination of two satellite images provided by GeoEye and MJ Harden shows, left, an area of Joplin, Mo. which includes a view of the Joplin High School, taken in August of 2009 and, right, the same area of Joplin is shown, including the high school, taken Tuesday May 24, 2011, two days after a devastating tornado tore through the city.
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Kenneth Thomas searches through toys kept at his house for his grand children in what used to be his living room Wednesday, May 25, 2011, in Joplin, Mo. Thomas' house and much of Joplin was destroyed after a massive tornado hit the area Sunday night.
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Janet Martin attempts to salvage medication and mementos from her brother's home before a second storm moves in, on May 23, 2011 in Joplin, Missouri. 'Twenty minutes before the storm, he left to go to church. He would have been in that basement if he hadn't gone,' Martin said.
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Maggie Kelley and her husband, Trey Adams hug their dog, Saint, after finding him amid the rubble of her home in Joplin, Mo. Monday, May 23, 2011. The two are Hurricane Katrina evacuees. Joplin was leveled by a tornado that destroyed nearly 30 percent of the town on Sunday afternoon.
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Meghan Miller stands in the middle of a destroyed neighborhood as she checks on her sister-in-law's home Monday, May 23, 2011, in Joplin, Mo. A large tornado moved through much of the city Sunday, killing 116 people and damaging hundreds of homes and businesses.
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A man carries a box out of a house damaged by a tornado Monday, May 23 in Joplin , Mo. A massive tornado that tore a six-mile path across southwestern Missouri, ripping into a hospital, crushing cars like soda cans and leaving behind only splintered tree trunks where entire neighborhoods once stood.
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Deputy Eddy Mathews of the Mayes County, Okla., Sheriff's Department hands off a dog to volunteer Mike Hughey of Ozark, Mo., after rescuers found a pair of dogs in the rubble of a destroyed home near the St. John's Regional Medical Center in Joplin, Mo., Monday, May 23.
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The wall of a home in Joplin, Mo. is seen Monday, May 23, 2011, after it was damaged by a tornado that destroyed nearly 30 percent of the town on Sunday afternoon. The Joplin twister was one of 68 reported tornadoes across seven Midwest states over the weekend, stretching from Oklahoma to Wisconsin, according to the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center.
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Volunteer firefighters William Jackson, left, and Ashley Martin, center, from Oklahoma, and Johnny Ward of Joplin look through the wreckage of a home where it was feared a pregnant woman as feared to be trapped following a tornado in Joplin, Mo., Sunday, May 22, 2011. The three did not find anyone during their search.
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