From the News Edge: Authorities are now saying at least 37 people are dead, including seven children from an elementary school, and devastation is reported throughout the city of Moore, Oklahoma, which was struck by a "monstrous" tornado Monday afternoon. Some estimates are that the tornado at one point was between a mile and two miles wide, when it hit the suburb on the south side of Oklahoma City............................................................................................................................From the Weather Edge: Staff Meteorologist David Bryant says the Storm Prediction center has placed the region under a slight risk of severe weather Tuesday and Tuesday night.

2nd West Nile Case In Kentucky

A state health department official says Kentucky's second confirmed case this year of West Nile virus comes from Jefferson County. Gwenda Bond says the case was confirmed Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Bond says Kentucky's first case of West Nile was confirmed in May in Henry County. Federal health officials say there are four times the usual number of cases in a West Nile outbreak nationwide. Bond says Kentucky had a total of five West Nile cases in 2011, resulting in one death.

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Locations : Henry County, Jefferson County, Kentucky, West Nile
People : Gwenda Bond

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