Death toll from Joplin tornado climbs to 116

JOPLIN, Mo. — Res­cue crews dug through piles of splin­tered houses and crushed cars Mon­day in a search for vic­tims of a half-mile-wide tor­nado that killed at least 116 peo­ple when it blasted much of this Mis­souri town off the map and slammed straight into its hospital.