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Trail of destruction after tornado plows through small Iowa town

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Important Takeaways:

  • Incredible footage shows destruction as deadly tornadoes rip through Iowa and kill multiple people: 15 counties declared disaster zones with hospital forced to evacuate, homes toppled and 25 million under severe warnings
  • Incredible drone footage has captured the immense trail of destruction left across a small Iowa town after a tornado ripped through the state – killing multiple people and injuring dozens more.
  • Entire neighborhoods were flattened by several deadly twisters that gripped the region on Tuesday evening, with Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds placing 15 counties under disaster emergency proclamations.
  • Hours after a tornado touched down in Greenfield, aerial footage showed where a tornado tore through the town as homes were leveled and trees were shredded down to their stumps.
  • Carnage is expected to continue through the Midwest as a storm system develops – with over 25 million people currently under severe weather warnings, stretching from Missouri to Wisconsin.
  • Iowa Police confirmed there have been multiple fatalities in the deadly weather front. One death occurred in Adams County, Iowa, around 90 miles southwest of Des Moines, when a woman was ejected from a vehicle during the brutal storm.

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Carnage on the streets of Port-au-Prince

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Important Takeaways:

  • World stalls on a promised intervention for Haiti
  • A woman hustles her young child into a waiting car as she shields his eyes. They’re fleeing anarchy.
  • The reason lies in the street before their house: A burned corpse; the remains of a suspected gang member killed by their neighbors.
  • His knees are bent and torso pitched forward as if in supplication, metal wires wrapped around the charred flesh.
  • Now even the holdouts are leaving amid an unprecedented frenzy of terror in the Caribbean nation.
  • Human remains are lying in the streets, yet the multinational security mission long touted by Haiti’s neighbors as a game-changer for its gang problem is nowhere to be found.
  • “We are ready for (the) multinational support force,” Baptiste said. “We’re ready to work with them. But the plan to receive the mission is not laid out; we think the mission will fail like the others because there is no framework to work together.”

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