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Updated 2:17 a.m. ETJOPLIN, Mo. 151; A massive tornado blasted its way across southwestern Missouri on Sunday, flattening several blocks of homes and businesses in Joplin and leaving residents frantically scrambling through the wreckage. A local official said as many as two dozen people may have been killed by the twister.Hundreds of windows were blown out St. John s stanley cup Regional Medical Center, where a few moments notice gave staff time to hustle patients into hallways before the tornado struck the multistory building. All were quickly evacuated into the parking lot to be moved to other hospitals in the region. The same storm system that produced t stanley deutschland he Joplin tornado spawned twisters along a broad swath of the Midwest, from Oklahoma to Wisconsin. At least one person was killed in Minneapolis.A spokeswoman for the city of Joplin said the death toll could top two dozen, and there were fears that number was low.Joplin spo stanley us keswoman Lynn Onstot was asked early Monday about an earlier report the storm had killed 24 people. She responded grimly that the city is afraid it may be more. ... Our fear is that s a low number. Officials struggling to communicate without power and cell phone service have been leery of putting a hard figure on a death toll. The Missouri National Guard is continuing its search for the injured throughout the night.The storm that hit the city spread debris about 60 miles away, with medical records, X-rays, insulat Pnih Winter Forecast A Mixed Bag
Amazon just raised its minimum wage to $15, but that s not enough for some progressive politicians.Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders sent aletterto Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on Tuesday scolding the company for allegedly nike af distributing a 45-minute instructional video to managers at recently-acquired grocery chain Whole Foods on how to defuse union organizing. Workers rights do not stop at the minimum wage, and raising the pay of your lowest-paid workers, while important, does not give you a free pass to engage in potentially illegal anti-union behavior, Massachusetts Democrat Warren and Vermont independent Sanders wrote.Amazon did not immediately return a request for comment.The letter comes as Warren prepares for an all-but-certain bid for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. She has ramped up travel to early-voting states and told a crowd at a Massachusetts t nike sb dunk own hall two weeks ago that after the midterms she will take a hard look at running for president. Warren this week released the results of a DNA test intended to combat President Donald Trump labeling her Pocahontas over Warren being listed in 19 yeezy slide 80s and 1990s law school faculty handbooks as Native American.Her political team has also turned Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell s 2017 admonishment that Warren was warned against reading a letter from Coretta Scott King criticizing Jeff Sessions on the Senate floor, but nevertheless, she persisted, into a slogan. It handed out printed PERSIST signs at |