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Governor Mary Fallin and other officials held a press briefing on Thursday to update the relief efforts of the deadly tornadoes from Sunday and Monday.

More than 60 cats and dogs have been brought to the shelter. They are put in crates and assigned generic identifiers.

2012 photo provided by the his family, 8-year-old tornado victim Kyle Davis poses for a photo while attending an Oklahoma University football game at Owen Field, in Norman, Okla.

2012 photo provided by the his family, 8-year-old tornado victim Kyle Davis poses for a photo while attending an Oklahoma University football game at Owen Field, in Norman, Okla.

Locally heavy showers & storms again Wed. 0.49" in just 10 min. at Trout River north of downtown Jax...1-2" near the St.

There are plenty of agencies jumping in to help - bringing in search dogs, collecting food for animals and connecting lost pets with their loved ones.

WMFD staff Meteorologist Michael Joyce just happened to be on vacation this week in Oklahoma participating in meteorology training and storm chasing when the mammoth Oklahoma tornado formed.

The tornado that struck an Oklahoma City suburb this week may have created $2 billion or more in damage as it tore through as many as 13,000 homes, multiple schools and a hospital, officials said Wednesday as they gave the first detailed account of the devastation.

The tornado swept dozens of homes and buildings off their foundations, shredded cars and trucks, littered streets with debris and power lines, and injured more than 200 people in the Oklahoma City suburb.

Memory Taylor, the director of the Agapeland Day Care Center in Moore, Okla., shows the destruction a EF-5 tornado left behind.

Dan Garland could feel the latch on the shelter door begin to turn in his hand. It was as if the storm outside were a living, breathing thing _ and it was trying desperately to get in.

MailOnline has learned that the sisters, the youngest of four siblings, were at home with their mother in Moore when the storm hit.

PHOTO COURTESY SUSIE MACON Stormin' Norman twister - A family friend snapped this photo as a tornado formed over Norman, Okla., May 19, where DeLandite Susie Macon was visiting.

The power of a tornado, its ability to tear a place apart, is what drove John Jones from his Oklahoma home, eventually landing him in Pittsburgh.

This photo, taken Tuesday, shows the path the deadly tornado took Monday through suburban Moore, Okla.

The massive tornado that devastated communities in Oklahoma Monday touched down near the town of Newcastle just five minutes after the first warnings went out, according to the National Weather Service.

A teacher hugs a child at Briarwood Elementary school after a tornado destroyed the school in south Oklahoma City Monday.

Wind, humidity and rainfall combined precisely to create the massive killer tornado in Moore, Okla.

Rick Smith, the warning coordination meteorlogist at the Norman, Okla., office of the National Weather Service, tells us the term was born on the fly in that same office "in response to an eerily similar situation on May 3, 1999." "When that phrase was first used, it came about because of the need of the Weather Service to shake people and really ... (more)

In Melville accident. three lanes blocked on The L.I.E./I-495 EB near X49/Rt-110. Stopped traffic from X46/Sunnyside Blvd in Plainview In Melville accident.