Reporter: In Port-au-Prince, Haitians Aid Each Other Amid Slow Quake Rescue Efforts

EARTHQUAKE -- January 13, 2010 at 2:58 PM EDT

Reporter: In Port-au-Prince, Haitians Aid Each Other Amid Slow Quake Rescue Efforts

Ansel Herz, a Texas native and freelance journalist, spoke to us this afternoon from outside a U.N. peacekeepers' base in the capital of Port-au-Prince, where he has been living for four months.

He described scenes of carnage and desperate attempts to rescue trapped people, saying that "Haitians are banding together" to help one another despite the lack of communication and assistance from the government in the immediate aftermath of the disaster:

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