Joplin, Mo. — President Obama greets residents affected by the devastating tornado that hit the small Midwestern city a week ago. Obama travelled to Joplin also to participate in a memorial service for those killed, estimated at 139 people.

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Joplin, Mo. — President Obama autographs a Joplin boy's shirt.

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Joplin, Mo. — Obama shakes hands as he tours the tornado damage.

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Joplin, Mo. — The Rev. Bill Pape prepares for an outdoor church service after Peace Lutheran Church was destroyed in the massive tornado.

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Joplin, Mo. — The Rev. Bill Pape speaks to his congregation at a service one week after disaster struck. Last weeks' tornado damaged a hospital and hundreds of homes and businesses.

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Joplin, Mo. — The Rev. Pape conducts Sunday's service.

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Joplin, Mo. — Beverly Winans hugs her daughter Debbie Surlin while salvaging items from the Winans' devastated home. Winans and her husband rode out the EF-5 tornado by hiding under a bed in the home. The tornado tore through much of the city Sunday, damaging a hospital and hundreds of homes and businesses and killing at least 122 people

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Joplin, Mo. — Florene Renfro searches through her tornado-damaged house. Renfro, 85, has decided she will abandon the home she's lived in since 1967 and move in with her daughter in Arkansas after a massive tornado hit Joplin on Sunday night.

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El Reno, Okla. — Rebecca Watts walks by a car that was slammed against a tree during a tornado north of El Reno on Tuesday. The high-powered storms arrived Tuesday night and early Wednesday, just days after a massive tornado tore up the southwest Missouri city of Joplin.

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Euless, Texas — A storm heads toward Euless. Funnel clouds were reported across the northern suburbs of Dallas and Ft. Worth around sundown Tuesday, with brief tornado touchdowns reported in the northern suburbs.

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Denton County, Texas — A tornado passes near the Ryan Ranch subdivision in southern Denton County.

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Joplin, Mo. — A view of the damage a day after a tornado tore through Joplin. The tornado that ripped through the town of about 50,000 people is being called the deadliest single tornado in the U.S. in 58 years.

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Joplin, Mo. — Armored car courier Josh Beck works on salvaging cash from an ATM which was damaged and tossed approximately 20 feet when a massive tornado passed through the town.

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Joplin, Mo. — Lacy Tasker salvages household items and mementos from her mother's house after it was destroyed when a massive tornado tore through the community.

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Joplin, Mo. — Only a few walls remain after the tornado ripped a home apart.

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Joplin, Mo. — A torn U.S. flag stands amid the wreckage of a church wiped out by the tornado.

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Joplin, Mo. — Members of a search-and-rescue team work at a Home Depot store destroyed by the tornado.

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Joplin, Mo. — A man uses a cellphone to photograph damage after the killer tornado ravaged the neighborhood.

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Joplin, Mo. — Ernie Darby salvages what he can from his house after it was destroyed by the powerful tornado.

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Joplin, Mo. — Chad Lunt of the Kansas City Fire Department Rescue Team travels house-to-house to look for survivors in Joplin, Mo.

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Joplin, Mo. — Co-workers Cindy Albers, left, and Kim Hoosier hug in Joplin.

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Joplin, Mo. — Captain Mark Cado, below, and Chad Lunt of the Kansas City Fire Department Rescue Team travel house-to-house to look for survivors in Joplin.

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Joplin, Mo. — A couple walks near a wrecked building in Joplin.

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Joplin, Mo. — The hospital is seen in the background amid damage after a large tornado hit the town of Joplin.

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Joplin, Mo. — Maggie Kelley and her husband, Trey Adams, hug their dog, Saint, after finding him amid the rubble of her home in Joplin. The two are Hurricane Katrina evacuees.

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Joplin, Mo. — Drapes hang out of the shattered windows of St. John's hospital after the tornado.

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Joplin, Mo. — A neighborhood traffic sign lies next to a house destroyed by the tornado.

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Joplin, Mo. — A man stands inside of what is left of a home.

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Joplin, Mo. — Destroyed vehicles and buildings litter a neighborhood after a devastating tornado hit Joplin, Mo. A monster tornado killed at least 116 people when it tore through the heart of the small Midwestern city, ripping the roof off a hospital and destroying thousands of homes and businesses.

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Joplin, Mo. — Candice Kell, 17, looks over her psychology textbook inside her grandmother's home.

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Joplin, Mo. — A cross stands atop a severely damaged church.

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Joplin, Mo. — The sun comes up over the debris left after a powerful tornado hit the community, damaging many buildings, including a hospital and a school.

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Joplin, Mo. — Justin Titus stands on what is left of his front porch after the tornado strike that killed at least 89 people.

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Joplin, Mo. — One of a number of homes lies in ruins after the devastating tornado.

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Joplin, Mo. — Evelyn Knoblauch sorts through the personal belongings of one of her children after their home was damaged by the tornado.

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Joplin, Mo. — People walk through a demolished neighborhood the day after the deadly tornado hit.

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Joplin, Mo. — Mark Langford looks for personal belongings after his home was destroyed by the tornado.

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Joplin, Mo. — Emergency workers wait for a medical team after finding a body in a vehicle caught in the tornado.

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Joplin, Mo. — A damaged car sits on a pile of debris after the tornado strike.

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Joplin, Mo. — Emergency personnel walk through a neighborhood severely damaged by a tornado near the St. John's Regional Medical Center in Joplin, Mo.,

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Joplin, Mo. — A pickup truck carrying two injured people weaves in and out of traffic to get to a hospital.

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Joplin, Mo. — An emergency worker searches the wreckage of a Wal-Mart store.

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Joplin, Mo. — A destroyed helicopter lies on its side in the parking lot of the St. John's Regional Medical Center. The hospital buidling also was heavily damaged.

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Joplin, Mo. — Residents help a woman who survived in her basement during the tornado.

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Joplin, Mo. — A man walks past destroyed vehicles in the parking lot of the St. John's Regional Medical Center.

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Joplin, Mo. — William Jackson, left, and Ashley Martin, volunteer firefighters from Oklahoma, survey the wreckage of destroyed homes.

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Joplin, Mo. — 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 might trapped.

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Joplin, Mo. — A man carries a young girl who was rescued after being trapped with her mother in their home.

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