The town is still searching for survivors after a deadly tornado tore through the town, Monday afternoon.
Five schools, a hospital, and hundreds of homes and businesses were damaged or destroyed, while the tornado was on the ground for forty minutes.
It left a path of destruction eleven miles long and up to a mile wide.
Good news came Tuesday morning that last night's death toll had been too high, and it was officially lowered.
Twenty-four people were killed, including nine children, and two hundred and thirty-seven were injured by the twister.
Seven of the deaths were children at Plaza Towers Elementary School, one of two schools demolished in the storm.
President Obama has declared the area to be a national disaster area and promised federal aid.
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