The myth of Haiti's lawless streets
As a member of the media covering the tragedy in Haiti, it's with a sense of alarm and astonishment that I've witnessed how some senior aid officials have argued for withholding aid of the utmost urgency because of sensational claims about violence and insecurity, which appear to be based more ...
Doctors Without Borders Plane with Lifesaving Medical Supplies Diverted Again from Landing in Haiti
Port-au-Prince – A Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) cargo plane carrying 12 tons of medical equipment, including drugs, surgical supplies and two dialysis machines, was turned away three times from Port-au-Prince airport since Sunday night despite repeated assurances of its ability to land there. This 12-ton cargo was part ...
Military Still Short on Soldiers in Haiti
Food, water and medicine is finally beginning to get to the millions who need help in Haiti, but it's still flowing more slowly than anyone would like. CBS News correspondent David Martin has more on the continuing bottleneck in Port-au-Prince. An Air Force cargo plane can in one swoop drop ...
Help steps up, but so does scale of Haiti tragedy
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – The staggering scope of Haiti's nightmare came into sharper focus Monday as authorities estimated 200,000 dead and 1.5 million homeless in the quake-ravaged heart of this tragic land, where injured survivors still died in the streets, doctors pleaded for help and looters slashed at one another in ...
U.S. Air Force drops 55,000 pounds of food, water into Haiti
ONBOARD AN AIR FORCE C-17 OVER HAITI -- Bypassing the gridlock of Haiti's main airport and congestion of roadways in the earthquake-ravaged country, the U.S. military delivered badly needed food and water on Monday by parachute.A C-17 cargo plane left Pope Air Force Base in North Carolina shortly after noon, ...
Bringing the Military's Might to Aid Haiti
Water, water everywhere, and yesterday it finally got to people who need it. Paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne landed on a hill where survivors had gathered. So often these days, the face of America is that of a soldier - in this case, Captain Jonathan Hartsock: "I brought my paratroopers ...
King: ‘Now is the time to make real the promise’
THE GREAT Martin Luther King Jr. address of 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial is remembered as the “I have a dream’’ speech. But King spoke an even more compelling line that day: “When will you be satisfied?’’ It was the question that had so often been put to him and ...
South Florida MLK Day celebrations have Haiti in mind
A moment of silence for the victims of last week's devastating earthquake in Haiti interrupted the celebratory cheer of Saturday's Martin Luther King Jr. Parade in South Miami-Dade. With tens of thousands dead and the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, in shambles, festivities scheduled in Miami-Dade and Broward counties have taken on ...
Elderly and abandoned, 84 Haitians await death
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – The old lady crawls in the dirt, wailing for her pills. The elderly man lies motionless as rats pick at his overflowing diaper. There is no food, water or medicine for the 84 surviving residents of the Port-au-Prince Municipal Nursing Home, barely a mile (1 1/2 kilometers) ...
Churches turn eye to Haiti on eve of MLK Day
NEW ORLEANS -- Churches all across the metro area have been taking time today to pray and collect donations for the massive rescue effort in Haiti.Officials now estimate that tens of thousands of people are dead, with humanitarian efforts now hampered by outbreaks of violence in the Caribbean nation.The situation ...
Military aids Haiti earthquake recovery in 'baby steps'
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — U.S. paratroopers trickled into Haiti Saturday and began distributing water and other basic supplies to the earthquake ravaged country.But officers say there are still not enough supplies and people to begin a robust distribution effort to provide hundreds of thousands of people with adequate supplies of food ...
Obama, GW Bush, Clinton: Together on Haiti
President Obama thanked predecessors George W. Bush and Bill Clinton today for heading up a new Haiti fundraising project, and asked them to tap America's compassion to help the impoverished nation devastated by a deadly earthquake."In times of great challenge in our country and around the world, Americans have always ...
Haiti says 200,000 may be dead, violence breaks out
PORT-AU-PRINCE - As many as 200,000 people died in the earthquake that devastated Haiti and three-quarters of the capital, Port-au-Prince, will need to be rebuilt, authorities in the Caribbean country said on Friday. "We have already collected around 50,000 dead bodies. We anticipate there will be between 100,000 and 200,000 ...
President Barack Obama throws full military might into aid effort
The American secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, flew into Haiti yesterday to spearhead a huge aid operation that the US administration hopes will serve as a symbol of America’s humanitarian spirit and an example of the prowess of its armed forces. For Clinton, who called the supply of aid “a ...
Haiti aid flow grows; feuds over reaching victims
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Hungry, haggard survivors clamored — and sometimes fought — for food and water Saturday as donors squabbled over how to get aid into Haiti and rescuers waged an increasingly improbable battle to free the dying before they become the dead.Haiti's government alone has already recovered 20,000 bodies ...
Rush Limbaugh 'meant' what he said about Haiti
Rush Limbaugh is not backing down from his claim that President Barack Obama is trying to score political points off the earthquake in Haiti. Challenged by a caller during his show Thursday, Limbaugh said: “If I said it, I meant to say it, and I do believe that everything is ...
Any large city in the world would have suffered extensive damage from an earthquake on the scale of the one that ravaged Haiti's capital city on Tuesday afternoon, but it's no accident that so much of Port-au-Prince now looks like a war zone. Much of the devastation wreaked by this ...
Lack of planes keep Bragg soldiers from Haiti
FORT BRAGG -- As conditions deteriorate in Haiti, hundreds of troops from the 82nd Airborne Division ready to provide disaster aid to the island nation are temporarily stuck at Fort Bragg because the military's planes are tied up on other missions."They're ready to deploy," Maj. Brian Fickel, spokesman for the ...
Air Force battles chaos at Haiti's airport
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — On a grassy rise at the east end of the battered airport, airmen from the 621st Contingency Response Wing worked through the predawn darkness Friday to bring a sliver of order in the chaos wrought by the earthquake that has killed thousands here.They erected tents, established communication ...
Mullen: 9,000 to 10,000 troops in Haiti by Monday
WASHINGTON -- Up to 10,000 U.S. troops will be in Haiti or off its shores by Monday to help distribute aid and prevent potential rioting among desperate earthquake survivors, the top U.S. military officer said Friday, as President Obama pledged long-term reconstruction help to President Rene Preval.Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman ...
NC Marines, soldiers, head to Haiti - with ABC11
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. -- Marines began boarding three ships bound for Haiti Friday as military units based in North Carolina ramped up relief efforts for the earthquake stricken nation.The 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit are headed for the Caribbean aboard the amphibious ships USS Bataan, Fort McHenry and Carter Hall. The ...
U.S. aircraft carrier, more troops arrive in Haiti
Hundreds of U.S. troops and an aircraft carrier have arrived at the Haiti relief effort, and the commander on the ground said today that food, water, medicine and other emergency relief supplies are being rushed to victims.Thousands more troops and sailors were en route."We have much more support on the ...
Stunned Haitians stacking victims by fallen homes
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haitians piled bodies along the devastated streets of their capital Wednesday after the strongest earthquake in more than a century hit the Caribbean island, crushing thousands of structures, from schools and shacks to the National Palace and the U.N. peacekeeping headquarters, and killing thousands. Many more people ...
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