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    • A series of 16 violent tornadoes ransacked north Texas this week, killing six people and flattening entire neighborhoods. Seven people who were reported missing early Friday morning have now been accounted for, but the storms aren't over yet.

      Severe thunderstorms were brewing in Alabama and Mississippi, and the Plains and the Midwest face threats of even more tornadoes this weekend, according the Weather Channel.

      Some residents and daredevil storm chasers captured amazing footage as twisters plowed through Texas. We've rounded up some of the best videos.

      A resident in Granbury, Texas took this video Wednesday as a tornado pounded the area just on the other side of Lake Granbury.

      Tornado chaser Jason Cooley shot this footage Wednesday of a tornado that slammed into cities near Dallas. "We gotta go," says one woman in the video as the twister approaches. Later in the video, a man says, "We were just in a tornado."

      One Texas resident captured a hail storm as it pounded DeCordova, Texas just

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    • Harrowing dash-cam footage shows officer Steve Nunez of the New Mexico State Police and some good Samaritans lifting an overturned SUV off of a little girl last week.

      Nunez spoke with KOAT.com about the incident. "It's always hard to see anybody in that situation, but especially children," he said. "And daddy mode kicked in."

      Nunez explained that the 8-year-old girl was face down under the SUV. "Momentarily she stopped breathing," he told KOAT.

      Nunez and a bystander tried to lift the SUV, but couldn't. The officer called over more good Samaritans, and eventually they were able to put the SUV onto its side and pull out the girl. In the dash-cam footage, Nunez can be seen running back to his patrol car to radio for medical help.

      The girl was rushed to the University of New Mexico hospital. KOAT reports that she is expected to make a full recovery.

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    • Aimee Copeland, the woman who lost her hands, one leg and her other foot to flesh-eating bacteria after a zip-line accident last year, spoke with WXIA.com and "Today" about her new bionic hands, which are helping her return to a normal life.

      Copeland, 24, is in the process of learning to use two state-of-the art prosthetic hands called iLimbs. A fast learner, she has the basics down and says she is looking forward to using them for more advanced tasks like driving, according to WXIA.

      The site also reports that Copeland's prosthetic hands are among the most advanced available and cost $100,000 each. She received them for free because she's agreed to be a spokesperson for Touch Bionics, maker of iLimb, according to Today.com. Robert Kistenberg of Georgia Tech is helping Copeland learn how to use the iLimbs. Via Today.com:

      Over time, Copeland is learning how to control her hands by flexing and contracting the muscles in her residual limbs. In time, she’ll learn not only how to move the

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