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Memorial ceremonies reflect on April 27, 2011 Smithville tornado

SMITHVILLE â Ten years after the April 27, 2011 EF-5 tornado claimed 16 lives, caused mass destruction and reshaped the town, people still ponder, âWhy?â Ten years later and that horrific day is still brining out the localsâ spirits.
âThe spirit of Smithville is a feeling that I canât describe. Itâs family,â said Smithville Attendance Center Principal Chad OâBrian during April 25âs Spirit of Smithville remembrance service at the schoolâs dome. âItâs one thing they had before the tornado, and especially the last 10 years, is being able to stay together. Iâve seen tragedy come but Iâve seen this community stick together like family. The spirit of Smithville is also a fight. Thereâs a lot of fight in the people of Smithville. ....

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Loss of life at 250 people dead. senior administration officials went to mississippi and alabama for awe firsthand look at the destruction and to offer assurances of federal aid. tonight cnn s martin savidge is in smithville, mississippi. the town took a direct hit from an ef-5 tornado, the most powerful and destructive. reporter: these are busy days at the smithville cemetery. the tornado killed 15 people in this town of 900. and liza morgan knows them all. the living and the dead. like elvin and laverne patterson. the pattersons. their grandson and i went to school together. and now i coach their daughter in softball. they ll be greatly missed. they were a special, special couple. reporter: liza and her father own and care for the cemetery. it s the only business in town still in business. they ve been hard days for ....

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live statement. other breaking news tonight as well, this time it s out of missouri. an appeal to the u.s. supreme court has failed to stop a proposal to blow up a major levee. that might save the town of cairo, illinois, but it would flood thousands of acres of missouri farmland. the decision to blast a two-mile hole in the levee now rests with the army corps of engineers. and our susan candiotti joins us now. susan, what does this mean? reporter: well, it means that if, in fact, they move forward with the plan to blow up this levee, then there s going to be a lot of land flooded, as was expected, in an area of missouri here. it s an area where the ohio and the mississippi river comes to a confluence. so at this hour tonight, i can tell you that the governor of missouri was not expecting that the supreme court would give him a favorable decision to hold off on plans to move forward blowing this levee up. because he says at this point we know that the u.s. army corp ....

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