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9:25 am

Mon May 30, 2011

Morning headlines: Monday, May 30, 2011

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An American flag blows in the wind, attached to a downed limb, near a home that has been destroyed in Joplin, Missouri on May 23, 2011. A massive tornado hit the small southwestern Missouri town on May 22, 2011.

By Julie Bierach, The Associated Press and KBIA

Obama Visits Joplin

Exactly a week after Joplin was hit by the deadliest tornado to strike the U.S in decades, President Barack Obama visited the Missouri city to offer hope to survivors and promises of help. Obama took to the stage during the Joplin Community Memorial Service, delivering a message of hope and support.

Along with promises to help rebuild the devastated community, Obama honored some of Joplin’s “heroes,” whom he says acted swiftly – often at the expense of their own lives – to save those around them.

Medical research

3:05 pm

Sat May 28, 2011

Wash U zebrafish facility opens doors to large-scale genetic research, collaboration

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Credit (Véronique LaCapra, St. Louis Public Radio)

The zebrafish, Danio rerio, is a tropical freshwater fish belonging to the minnow family.

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Developmental geneticist Liliana Solnica-Krezel speaks with visitors touring Washington University’s zebrafish facility on Friday. The large tanks on the left hold algae and small freshwater organisms called rotifers – food for the young zebrafish.

Credit (Véronique LaCapra, St. Louis Public Radio)

The tall metal units at the rear of this photo are robotic feeders. The 20 robotic feeding units in the new facility roll along tracks between the shelves of fish tanks, scanning barcodes that tell them how much food to dispense into each tank.

Credit (Véronique LaCapra, St. Louis Public Radio)

Liliana Solnica-Krezel, who spearheaded the building of the new Washington University facility, looks through a microscope at some two-hour-old zebrafish eggs, whose image is projected on the screen behind her.

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A close-up view of the magnified, two-hour-old zebrafish eggs.

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The Washington University zebrafish research facility can hold 7,000 tanks of fish, allowing researchers to conduct large, collaborative experiments and complete their research projects more quickly.

By Véronique LaCapra

Washington University is now home to one of the largest zebrafish research facilities in the world.

The one-inch long, striped tropical fish serve as models for studying human development and disease, from birth defects to heart disease to cancer.

Joplin Tornado

5:19 pm

Fri May 27, 2011

Nixon to set aside $25M for Joplin tornado, will speak with Obama at memorial

Mo. Gov. Jay Nixon at a press conference on May 27 when he announced that $25 million will be set aside in next year's state budget to help pay for damage following the tornado in Joplin on May 22.

By Marshall Griffin

Missouri Governor Jay Nixon will shift $25 million from next year’s state budget to help pay for damage in Joplin caused by last weekend’s deadly tornado.

Nixon says he doesn’t yet know which areas of the FY 2012 budget he’ll use to help offset tornado expenses.

“What decisions we have to make because of that to trim the budget and to balance, we’ll make over the coming weeks…if the demands for dollars continue to move up, we clearly have other sources, other ways to get resources,” Nixon said.

Veterans survey

4:47 pm

Fri May 27, 2011

Veterans give Cochran VA hospital good marks

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U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill speaks to the media on Friday, May 27. To her left is veteran George Newell.

By Bill Raack

A new survey released today finds that most area veterans are happy with the care and service they get from local VA medical facilities.

U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) initiated the survey following problems at the John Cochran VA center last summer. At a press conference at the Soldiers' Memorial Military Museum in downtown St. Louis, McCaskill said most of the 185 veterans surveyed had positive things to say about the local VA hospitals but there’s room for improvement.

Bodies Found in Affton

2:03 pm

Fri May 27, 2011

Police: 4 shot to death in St. Louis County home

By The Associated Press

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Updated 3:24 p.m.

Four people have been shot to death in what police are calling an apparent domestic incident in the St. Louis suburb of Affton.

The shootings happened Friday morning.

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