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  • Aerial photos reveal scale of Joplin tornado devastation

    Updated with NBC Nightly News video, 7:58 p.m., May 24:

    A helicopter tour of the tornado disaster zone around Joplin, MO offers a terrifying display of nature's power. NBC's Al Roker reports

     

    NBC News producer Zoe Marcus, @zmarcus on Twitter, filed this picture from the chopper:

    Zoe Marcus

    Trees and homes alike were flattened by the storm.

    Original post:

    Charlie Riedel / AP

    The path of a powerful tornado is seen in Joplin, Mo. Tuesday, May 24, 2011.

    Charlie Riedel / AP

    A destroyed Home Depot is seen in Joplin, Mo. Tuesday, May 24, 2011. A large tornado moved through much of the city Sunday, damaging a hospital and hundreds of homes and businesses.

    Charlie Riedel / AP

    A destroyed apartment complex is seen in an aerial view over Joplin, Mo. Tuesday, May 24, 2011. A tornado moved through much of the city Sunday, damaging a hospital and hundreds of homes and businesses and killing at least 116 people.

    Charlie Riedel / AP

    The path of a powerful tornado is seen in Joplin, Mo. Tuesday, May 24, 2011.

    Charlie Riedel / AP

    An apartment complex destroyed by a powerful tornado is seen in an aerial view over Joplin, Mo. Tuesday, May 24, 2011.

    Charlie Riedel / AP

    The path of a powerful tornado is seen in an aerial photo over Joplin, Mo., Tuesday, May 24, 2011.

    Charlie Riedel / AP

    The path of a powerful tornado is seen in Joplin, Mo., Tuesday, May 24, 2011.

    Here's the full story, our slideshow, and a photo by NBC's Al Roker. 

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  • Larry Downing / Reuters

    U.S. President Barack Obama plays table tennis against students with British Prime Minister David Cameron at the Globe Academy in London May 24,

    Obama and Cameron team up for ping pong doubles

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    Kyle and Alicia Gordon embrace in what's left of their son's room after losing their home to a devastating tornado that hit Joplin, Mo., on Tuesday, May 24.

    Charlie Riedel / AP

    A neighborhood destroyed by a powerful tornado in Joplin, Mo., on Tuesday.

    Grief and devastation in tornado-whipped Joplin, Mo.

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  • Jason Reed / Reuters

    Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at the podium to address a joint meeting of Congress in Washington, May 24.

    Netanyahu addresses Congress, outlines peace vision

    AP reports:

    WASHINGTON — In an address to a joint meeting of Congress, Israel's prime minister pledged to make "painful compromises" for peace with the Palestinians, but said he would not agree to any deal that threatens Israel's security or its identity as a Jewish state

    Netanyahu, who received a rapturous reception from lawmakers on both sides of the political divide, said Israel wants and needs peace but repeated his flat rejection of a return to what he called the "indefensible" borders that existed before the 1967 Mideast war. He also restated Israel's refusal to entertain the return of millions of Palestinian refugees and their families to land in Israel. And, he maintained that Jerusalem, claimed by both sides as their capital, could not be divided.

    "Israel will never give up its quest for peace," Netanyahu said, adding that he is "willing to make painful compromises to achieve this historic peace." Continue reading.

  • Tomoyuki Kaya / EPA

    Women buy vegetables produced in Fukushima at the Shinjuku station in Tokyo, Japan on May 24. Fukushima's vegetables are sold and promoted in Japan as being safe amid fear of nuclear contamination.

    Japanese shoppers buy Fukushima vegetables in show of solidarity

    By David R Arnott, NBC News

    The full consequences of the disaster at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant are still being determined. Just today, the plant's operator confirmed there had been meltdowns of fuel rods at three of its reactors in the early days of the crisis.

    Local farmers have been badly affected, despite tests having proven that the soil outside a 30 km zone around the plant is safe for farming. As we reported on April 1st:

    The Fukushima farm sector, which once proudly put the prefecture's name on its rice, fruits and vegetables that went to market, will face the burden of trying to sell its products now that the Fukushima name is synonymous with nuclear disaster.

    The scene above, then, represents a glimmer of hope. At a market stall in Tokyo's Shinjuku train station, the vendors proudly proclaimed that their vegetables had been grown in the Fukushima region, and shoppers - at least some shoppers - appeared happy to purchase them in a spirit of solidarity.

  • Sunrise over Joplin, Mo as crews search for more survivors

    Joe Raedle / Getty Images

    Debris from destroyed homes are seen after a massive tornado passed through the town in Joplin, Missouri.

    Joe Raedle / Getty Images

    A destroyed home is seen in Joplin, Missouri two days after a massive tornado ripped through the town. Rescue workers are searching for survivors as the threat of further storms still looms.

    Joe Raedle / Getty Images

    Early tuesday morning Carra Reed looks at a friend's home that was destroyed when a massive tornado passed through the town on May 22, in Joplin, Missouri. 116 people are known to have been killed and authorities expect the death toll to climb in the town of 50,000 people. Rescue workers are searching for survivors as the threat of further storms still looms.

     For more images of the devastation in Joplin, Mo. click here.

    Rescue crews are hoping for the best but fearing the worst as they continue to search for more survivors in tornado-ravaged Joplin, Mo. TODAY's Al Roker reports.

     

  • Obamas greeted by royal family at Buckingham Palace

    Murray Sanders / WPA Pool via Getty Images

    Queen Elizabeth II and U.S. President Barack Obama review an honor guard of the First Battalion Scots Guards at a ceremony of welcome at Buckingham Palace on May 24.

    Murray Sanders / WPA Pool via Getty Images

    U.S. President Barack Obama reviews an honor guard with Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh at Buckingham Palace on May 24.

    Charles Dharapak / AP

    U.S. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama meet with Britain's Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge at Buckingham Palace in London on May 24.

    Dominic Lipinski / WPA Pool via Getty Images

    Prince Charles walks with U.S. President Barack Obama as they leave Winfield House, the official residence of the US Ambassador, in Regent's Park in London on May 24.

    Kevin Lamarque / Reuters

    U.S. President Barack Obama shakes hands with Queen Elizabeth II as first lady Michelle Obama and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, look on, at Buckingham Palace in London on May 24.

    msnbc.com staff and news service reports: President Obama and his wife Michelle are in the UK for a state visit at the invitation of Queen Elizabeth II, who is hosting them for two nights at Buckingham Palace.  They were welcomed to the palace this morning in an elaborate arrival ceremony, and will be toasted at an intimate banquet for about 200 royals and other dignitaries Tuesday evening.

    Royal watchers say the queen has taken a liking to the Obamas ever since meeting the couple during their 2009 visit to London.

    Read more on President Obama's visit to the UK.

  • Ahmad Nadeem / Reuters

    An Afghan man attends to his wounded brother at a hospital after a roadside bomb blast in Panjwai district of Kandahar on May 24. Ten Afghan construction workers were killed and 28 wounded when their truck hit a roadside bomb in the Panjwai district of southern Kandahar province, said Kandahar health official Abdul Qayum Pukhla.

    Afghan construction workers wounded in roadside bomb blast

    According to our report today, violence is at its worst in Afghanistan since U.S.-backed forces toppled the Taliban in 2001. Last year saw record casualties on all sides and this year is following a similar trend.

    See more images from Afghanistan in our slideshow.

  • Yang Yeong-seok / AP

    Riot policemen surround striking workers at Yoosung Enterprise Co., an auto parts supplier for domestic car makers, in Asan, South Korea on May 24. Thousands of riot police raided the auto parts factory Tuesday to break up a sit-in by striking workers as the weeklong walkout has crippled the operations of Hyundai and other local automakers and their parts suppliers.

    Riot police confront striking workers at South Korean auto parts factory

    AP reports: Police in South Korea are breaking up a strike at an auto parts manufacturer that has caused production disruptions for the country's automakers.

    Police official Seo Jung-pil said Tuesday that about 1,000 police raided a Yoosung Enterprise Co. factory in Asan, south of Seoul, where some 500 workers had been on strike since May 18.

    South Korea's Yonhap news agency said that police were dispersing workers and that no major clashes were reported. Yonhap said the workers went on strike after wage talks broke down.

    South Korea's largest automaker Hyundai Motor Co. said the dispute is causing some production disruptions for it and Kia Motors Corp. The two companies together form the world's fifth-biggest automotive group.

  • Dennis M. Sabangan / EPA

    Children ride on a passenger jeep while it maneuvers in a flooded street as occasional rain showers fall in Manila, Philippines on May 24. As tropical storm Chedeng (international name: Songda) changed its track, Philippines Presidential Spokesman Edwin Lacierda Edwin appealed to residents in low-lying and landslide prone areas, particularly in Panay and Negros region, to evacuate immediately.

    Flooding fails to stop the traffic in Manila

  • Mohamed Messara / EPA

    EDITOR'S NOTE: PICTURE TAKEN ON GUIDED GOVERNMENT TOUR.
    A man, who officials said was wounded in an air strike by coalition forces, lies on a bed at a hospital in Tripoli, Libya on May 24. Heavy explosions were heard in the city early on Tuesday.

    Casualties reported after NATO airstrikes on Tripoli

    TRIPOLI, Libya — NATO warplanes bombarded targets in Tripoli with more than 20 airstrikes early Tuesday, striking around Moammar Gadhafi's residential compound in what appeared to be the heaviest night of bombing of the Libyan capital since the Western alliance launched its air campaign against his forces.

    The rapid string of strikes, all within less than half an hour, set off thunderous booms that rattled windows, sent heavy, acrid-smelling plumes of smoke over the city, including from an area close to Gadhafi's sprawling Bab al-Aziziya compound. Continue reading.

  • Scott Heppell / AP

    A passenger sleeps with her head on her knees on the floor as flights were canceled at Edinburgh Airport in Scotland on May 24. A dense ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano blew toward Scotland, causing airlines to cancel Tuesday flights and raising fears of a repeat of last year's travel disruptions in Europe that stranded millions of passengers.

    Ash from Icelandic volcano leaves travelers stranded at Scottish airports

    Read more about the flight disruptions caused by ash from the Grimsvotn volcano.

  • Soyuz capsule landed safely in Kazakhstan

    Mikhail Metzel / AFP - Getty Images

    The Russian Soyuz TMA-20 space capsule lands about 150 km south-east of the Kazakh town of Dzhezkazgan on May 24, 2011. A Soyuz space capsule carrying an Italian, a Russian and an American back from the International Space Station (ISS) has landed safely in Kazakhstan, Russian mission control said.

    Sergei Remezov / AFP - Getty Images

    US astronaut, flight engineer Catherine "Cady" Coleman (L), Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli (R) and the Expedition 27 Commander, Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev , sit inside their Soyuz TMA-20 capsule just after the landing in Kazakhstan on May 24.

    Mikhail Metzel / AP

    Russian space agency rescue team help U.S. astronaut Cady Coleman leave the capsule after Soyuz capsule's landing about 93 miles south-east of the Kazakh town of Dzhezkazgan, Tuesday, May 24, 2011. The Soyuz capsule carrying Italian, American and Russian back to Earth from the International Space Station landed safely in Kazakhstan on Tuesday.

    Mikhail Metzel / Pool / EPA

    epa02748728 The International Space Station crew of US astronaut Cady Coleman Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratiev, and Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli are seen after Soyuz capsule's landing 80 miles south-east of the Kazakh town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on May 24, 2011.

     

    Read the full story here.

  • Jon Magnusson / Getty Images Contributor

    The eruption of the Grimsvotn volcano sends thousands of tonnes of volcanic ash into the sky on May 23, 2011 above Iceland. The cloud has forced the closure of Icelandic airspace and spread fears of a repeat of the global travel chaos that was caused by last year's Icelandic eruption, although authorities inisist that this Grimsvotn poses a lesser threat.

    Iceland's Grimsvotn volcano erupts and spewing ash into sky

    See more images from the eruption and read the full story.

  • Long lines and empty shelves around currency devaluation in Belarus

    Sergei Grits / AP

    Belarusian drivers wait in a queue to fill their tanks with fuel a petrol station before a price hike in Minsk, Monday, May 23, 2011. Prices of fuel will rise up to 20 percent by Tuesday, according to local media reports.

    Tatyana Zenkovich / EPA

    Customers pass by empty shelves in an electronic equipment shop in Minsk, Belarus, 23 May 2011. Booming demand for certain commodities and growing prices at Belarussian shops result from instability on the currency market.

    Vladimir Nikolsky / Reuters

    People queue up to buy foreign currency outside an exchange office of Belarusbank in Minsk May 23, 2011. The Belarussian rouble strengthened on the interbank market on Monday, bankers said, extending gains made last week after the government announced asset sale plans and Russia said Minsk could get a loan in June.

    Here's a story about Belarus devaluing its currency by a third.  

  • Ash falls on Iceland as Grimsvotn volcano erupts

    Brynjar Gauti / AP

    A member of a rescue team checks on a farmer near to Kirkjubaearklaustur, approx. 260 km from Reykjavik, Iceland, Monday, May 23, 2011. A dense cloud of ash from an Icelandic volcano was being blown toward Scotland Monday, forcing two airlines to cancel their flights, U.S. President Barack Obama to cut short his visit to Ireland and carriers across Europe to fear a repeat of the huge disruptions that stranded millions of passengers a year ago.

    Vilheldm Gunnarsson / EPA

    Picture taken on 23 May 2011 at around 10:00 AM GMT shows a man cleaning his car from volcanic ashes in the village of Kirkjubaejarklaustur, in the south of Iceland. Airspace over Iceland was closed 23 May 2011 after the North Atlantic country?s most-active volcano continued to spew ash. The plume above the Grimsvotn volcano was Monday estimated to be between 8-10 kilometres, the Icelandic Meteorological Office said. The volcano began to erupt 21 May 2011, and the plume was initially more than 20 kilometres high.

    Brynjar Gauti / AP

    Farmers Thormar Eller and Henny Hrund go to check their livestock as an ash cloud is seen in background, near Kirkjubaearklaustur, approx. 260 km from Reykjavik, Iceland, Monday, May 23, 2011. A dense cloud of ash from an Icelandic volcano was being blown toward Scotland Monday, forcing two airlines to cancel their flights, U.S. President Barack Obama to cut short his visit to Ireland and carriers across Europe to fear a repeat of the huge disruptions that stranded millions of passengers a year ago.

    Here's a story about the type of ash created by this volcano.

  • 'Cut the city in half': Death toll rises to 116 in Missouri tornado

    Charlie Riedel / AP

    Ashley Stephens holds a ferret she rescued from the home of a missing woman while helping a friend collect belongings Monday, May 23 in Joplin, Mo. A large tornado moved through much of the city Sunday, damaging a hospital and hundreds of homes and businesses and killing at least 89 people.

    By Rich Shulman

    This is a touching moment. Here's the full story.

    Update: AP photographer Charlie Riedel, who also took the pictures below, shares his thoughts about photographing people after this disaster:

    In all the years that I have covered disasters, from fires to hurricanes to tornados to the oil spill, I don’t think I have ever run into anyone who doesn’t feel a little bit happy that someone is taking an interest in their life and story. A lot of the time I will approach someone who is sorting through what is left of their house, and they are very talkative, very appreciative of my taking an interest in them. Part of that may come from the fact that a victim may feel like an insignificant speck amongst a huge disaster -- and this disaster is immense. So when someone takes an interest in them, they respond. I did a lot of work on the 2007 Greensburg, Kan., tornado, rated an EF5. Last night’s tornado strikes me as Greensburg on steroids. The sheer immensity of it all is what struck me. You can look anywhere and see total and utter devastation.

     

    Charlie Riedel / AP

    Storm clouds dwarf a farm near Lamar, Mo. as the sun sets Sunday, May 22, 2011. The storm earlier produced a large tornado moved through much of Joplin, Mo., damaging a hospital and hundreds of homes and businesses. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

    Charlie Riedel / AP

    Anita Stokes salvages meat from a freezer at her home that was destroyed by a tornado in Joplin, Mo., Monday, May 23, 2011. A large tornado moved through much of the city Sunday, damaging a hospital and hundreds of homes and businesses and killing at least 89 people. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

    Charlie Riedel / AP

    A shelf cloud containing a thunderstorm approaches a tornado-ravaged neighborhood in Joplin, Mo., Monday, May 23, 2011. A large tornado moved through much of the city Sunday, damaging a hospital, hundreds of homes and businesses and killing at least 89 people. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

    Charlie Riedel / AP

    An emergency worker searches a Walmart store that was severely damaged by a tornado in Joplin, Mo., Monday, May 22, 2011. A large tornado moved through much of the city Sunday, damaging a hospital and hundreds of homes and businesses. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

    Continuing coverage in our slideshow.

    Earlier PhotoBlog posts on the Joplin tornado.

  • Daniel Barry / Getty Images

    A sign at the entrance to Bryant Park notifies visitors of a new smoking ban May 23 in New York City. A new smoking law took effect in New York City Monday, prohibiting smokers from lighting up in certain public places including parks and beaches.

    New York park smoking ban takes effect

    AP reports:

    A ban on smoking in New York City parks, beaches, boardwalks and pedestrian plazas took effect on Monday, but smokers can still puff away legally on sidewalks.

    New York's City Council passed the ban in February, over some grumbling about government meddling in people's private lives, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed off on it shortly afterward.

    The law extends the city's existing ban on smoking in restaurants and bars. New Yorkers can smoke on sidewalks, parking lots, streets and in their homes, although many landlords of rental properties do not allow it.

    Saleswoman Polonia Jourdain, sitting on a park bench clutching her 8-month-old nephew, said she was happy with the ban.

    "I don't want to smell smoke wherever I go," said Jourdain, 17, adding that both her mother and brother are smokers.

    "The smell of cigarettes makes me nauseous and gives me headaches," she said.

    The ban will not be enforced by police but by some 200 parks personnel who watch over the city's 29,000 acres of park land and beaches.

    Violators face a $50 fine, but officials say the ban is meant to be largely self-enforcing.

    Bloomberg also has promoted health measures including a ban on trans fats in restaurant food and a requirement that chain restaurants display calorie counts on menus.

    He has campaigned nationally for food companies to cut salt levels in their products and for the federal government to ban the purchase of sugary drinks with food stamps -- federal vouchers used by 42 million low-income Americans to buy food.

  • Tight security protects President Obama on Ireland visit

    By Rich Shulman

    I don't know if that is a Secret Service agent in the left of this frame, but I think I know what he's thinking: "Don't touch the President."

    The Daily Mail has an excellent story on Presidential security for the visits.

    Full coverage of the Ireland visits.

    Kevin Lamarque / Reuters

    A woman puts her hands on the cheeks of U.S. President Barack Obama after he spoke at College Green in Dublin May 23. Obama sipped a pint of stout and cuddled babies on Monday as a tiny Irish village on Monday welcomed home "a long lost cousin" with an outpouring of affection. Hoisting a glass of Guinness at Ollie Hayes pub as fiddle music played, Obama thus began a four-nation tour of Europe with a celebration of his ancestral roots.

    If you watched this on television today, you probably didn't see the bulletproof glass around the podium.

    Peter MacDiarmid / Getty Images

    US President Barack Obama speaks at a rally in College Green on May 23 in Dublin, Ireland. U.S. President Obama is visiting Ireland for one day. Earlier he met with Irish President Mary McAleese, Taoiseach (Prime Minister) of Ireland Enda Kenny and visited his ancestral home in Moneygall, County Offaly.

     

     

  • Jon Magnusson / Getty Images Contributor

    The eruption of the Grimsvotn volcano sends thousands of tonnes of volcanic ash into the sky on May 23 above Iceland. The cloud has forced the closure of Icelandic airspace and spread fears of a repeat of the global travel chaos that was caused by last year's Icelandic eruption, although authorities insist that this Grimsvotn poses a lesser threat.

    Ash clouds creep toward Scandinavia, Europe

    By Rich Shulman

    This looks a bit like a tornado, but it's a low angle view of the volcanic ash cloud. Full story.

    Fears about the cloud forced President Obama to cut his visit to Ireland short and fly to London.

    Yesterday's PhotoBlog post.


  • New 'Cheetah Hunt' roller coaster uses powerful magnets to launch riders from 0 to 60 in seconds

    By Rich Shulman

    Click here to read about new Florida theme park attrations.

    Click here to read more about the Cheetah Hunt ride.

    And if your stomach can take it, try a virtual video ride on the roller coaster, below.

    Busch Garden Tampa via AP

    This Monday, May 23 image courtesy of Busch Gardens Tampa shows the Cheetah Hunt coaster at Busch Gardens, Tampa, Fla. Busch Gardens is touting its new Cheetah Hunt roller coaster that uses the force of repelling magnets to launch riders from zero to 60 mph in a matter of seconds, three different times during the ride. Opening this summer, Cheetah Hunt will be the longest of the park’s coasters with 4,429 feet of track.

     

  • Cheers! Obama drinks Guinness in Irish pub

    Charles Dharapak / AP

    President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama drink Guinness beer as they meet with local residents at Ollie Hayes pub in Moneygall, Ireland, the ancestral homeland of his great-great-great grandfather, Monday, May 23.

    Related content:

    Full story: Obama in Ireland to reaffirm 'bonds of affection'

    Another head of state, Queen Elizabeth II, turns down a pint of the black stuff: Stiff upper lip, with Guinness moustache, just wouldn't do

    Hamlet celebrates its most famous great-great-great grandson. NBC's Norah O'Donnell reports.

  • Pictures of the 1953 Worcester, Massachusetts tornado

    By Stokes Young, nbcnews.com

    Update 6:47 p.m., May 24:

    From the NBC News "HOT" file:

    Per Sean Hadley - NBC producer in Joplin, MO:
    National Weather Service's Bill Davis said that the Joplin tornado is the 8th deadliest tornado they have on record, giving it an E-5 rating. Joplin City Manager, Mark Rohr, says the death count has increased to 126 dead.

    Update 6:06 p.m., May 23:

    The death toll stands at 116, larger now than either the Flint, Michigan or Worcester, Massachusetts tornadoes of 1953. The Joplin tornado is now the deadliest in 64 years, after the April 9, 1947 twister in Woodward, Oklahoma, which killed 181.

    Update 1:38 p.m., May 23:

    The death toll in Missouri has risen to "at least 90," equaling that of the 1953 Worcester tornado. Officials are worrying that the number will rise, according to msnbc.com's main story on the Joplin tornado.

    Stokes Young posts: As I write, our main story on the Joplin, Missouri tornado reports that the death toll is at 89, but could grow larger than the 1953 Worcester, Massachusetts tornado:

    As the toll currently stands, the Joplin storm is the deadliest single tornado since the Worcester, Mass., tornado of June 9, 1953, which killed 90 people. If Joplin's toll increases further, it would surpass Worcester and start approaching the toll from a deadly storm that hit the previous day in 1953, when 115 died in Flint, Mich.

    This prompted us to do a bit of research about that previous storm, the Worcester, Massachusetts tornado of 1953. The Wikipedia page on the Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak sequence details the massive weather system that devastated Flint, Michigan and Worcester, Massachusetts.

    The town of Worcester has a slideshow of images from the tornado.

    And, in the aftermath of that horrible storm, a young senator named John F. Kennedy toured the devastated town of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts:

    AP file

    Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, center, accompanied by Dick Mayer, 15, and Melissa Tyler, 14, inspects tornado damage in Shrewsbury, Mass., on June 10, 1953.

    Meanwhile, on YouTube, this video is described as "Kathy Lundstrom's father, Henry Ekberg took this rare color film before and after the Worcester tornado tore up the Burncoat area of Worcester,MA in 1953:"

     

  • iPhone panoramic photograph of Joplin, Missouri tornado devastation

    Aaron Sasson / NBC News via yfrog.com

    By Stokes Young, nbcnews.com

    NBC News photographer Aaron Sasson tweeted this picture this morning:

    @AaronSasson: More devastation from the hospital site in #Joplin, MO. #tornado http://yfrog.com/h8w1bioj

    Aaron told us via email how he made this picture and what else he is up to:

    I took multiple pictures with the iPhone and used an app called Autostitch. I use it ALL the time. I made a wide angle adapter for my iphone, and use that to take pics and video. Home made...yes. I'll have to post a shot of that too.

    I've been shooting vid since leaving airport last night all through the process of getting to a breaking story and will cut it on imovie for iphone today and try to post tonight.

    The other gear? Packed in dry cases and been shooting stills and video while hunkered down.

    He's not the only NBC News staffer filing live updates and pictures via Twitter. See the latest updates at the NBC News twitter feed. A few excerpts below:

    RT @zmarcus: #Joplin sky reminds me of an oncoming wave. http://yfrog.com/gz8esdkj

    From our producer on the ground in the tornado-hit city. RT @zmarcus Devastation in #joplinhttp://t.co/mBUo2kO

    Correspondent Ron Mott is also tweeting:

    We're in path of severe wx right now in #Joplin. Pea-sized hail falling but at least the wind is relatively calm. Should clear soon #tornado

    This was a two-story home reduced to one level after Sunday's #tornado in #Joplin. Phenomenal damage http://yfrog.com/h6yzjaxj

    For pictures, video and updates from a variety of folks in Joplin, follow the latest updates at the BreakingNews.com feed on the tornado story.

    Meanwhile, we're regularly updating our slideshow on the aftermath of the Joplin twister, and letting folks know when we update via the @msnbc_pictures Twitter account.

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