BBC News (excerpts):  Tornadoes sweeping the US Midwest have struck near Oklahoma, hitting vehicles on a section of motorway west of the Oklahoma State Capital.  Officials said at least five people had been killed and many others injured.  

 The new storms come, as rescue workers search for hundreds of people missing in Joplin, Missouri, about 200 miles (320 km) to the north-east.  At least 122 people were killed on Sunday by a powerful tornado that cut a wide swathe through the city.  

 The Oklahoma tornadoes hit rural areas to the west and south of Oklahoma City, officials said.  State officials said at least five people had been killed.  The tornadoes formed from storm systems that began in western Oklahoma State and began travelling north-east in the afternoon.  A weather monitoring site in El Reno recorded winds at 151 miles per hour (243 km/h).  As the storms built up, Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin warned people to take shelter.  "This is a very dangerous time right now," she told CNN.  Television reports showed tornadoes forming and striking the ground.  

 Two more people were reported to have died in Kansas storms there on Tuesday.  The storms were forecast to move over Joplin, Missouri, bringing the possibility of more tornadoes for the badly damaged city.  Rescue workers were sifting through the wide path of debris Sunday's twister left, hoping to find some of the hundreds of people still unaccounted for.  Much of the south side of Joplin is reported to have been leveled, with churches, schools, businesses and homes reduced to rubble.  

My Comments:  Apparently the storms are not over and more tragedy is hitting throughout the midwest.  We need to continue praying for those affected throughout Missouri, Kansas and now Oklahoma.  We need to pray, not only for their safety during upcoming storms and their recovery, but we need to ask God to move on the hearts of Americans to turn to the Lord; our help, and more importantly, the only source of our eternal help and security is in Him, while there is still time.  The devastation has been nonstop for many months throughout the US and the world.  We are truly living in the last days and, according to the scriptures, God is allowing the warning signs of permanent devastation for those who refuse to call on his name (Revelation 16:11).  He is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance (II Peter 3:9 and Acts 2:21).