NU Online News Service,  Jan. 13, 7:55 a.m. EST

NEW YORK – John M. Huff, director of the Missouri Department of Insurance, was in Washington D.C. when a massive, destructive tornado tore through Joplin, Mo.

Huff, in Washington as a member of the U.S. Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC), flew back to see the scene that had been described to him by agents as a "war zone."

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