Jan 15 Sights and Sounds of the Haiti Disaster By News Desk Friday’s NewsHour ended with a look at the sights and sounds of the Haiti earthquake disaster. Watch that segment below or browse NewsHour coverage of Haiti this week, both on-air and online, here. Continue reading
Jan 15 Clinton: Haiti’s ‘Ironic’ Twist of Fate Embodied in Monday NewsHour Report By Maureen Hoch During a press briefing late Friday afternoon, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took questions on the relief effort in Haiti and announced plans to travel to the beleaguered country on Saturday. She also referenced a segment the NewsHour aired Monday… Continue reading
Jan 15 Democrats Say Health Reform Compromise Is Near By Lea Winerman Democratic lawmakers headed back to the White House Friday afternoon for another round of negotiations on health care reform. Senate Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said that he expected a deal on a bill in the next 72 hours,… Continue reading
Jan 15 Journalist: Anger, But No Violence Seen in Haiti By Hari Sreenivasan We caught up again Friday with freelance journalist Ansel Herz, a radio reporter who has been living in Haiti for the last four months. He addressed various reports of violence increasing in the streets of Haiti. "I've seen no weapons… Continue reading
Jan 15 Health Care Reform Could Hinge on Close Mass. Senate Race By Quinn Bowman Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post spoke with Hari Sreenivasan about this week's big political story: the special election in Massachusetts to fill the U.S. Senate seat previously held by the late Sen. Edward Kennedy. Democrats are scrambling amid… Continue reading
Jan 15 Waiting for News From Haiti in Brooklyn By Ray Suarez BROOKLYN, N.Y.--The Haitians and Haitian-Americans of New York can see the newsstand photos of unimaginable suffering. They watch hour after hour of the television coverage that is now flowing freely from Port au Prince. For most of us, that coverage… Continue reading
Jan 14 Haiti: A Haunting History Lesson By Margaret Warner In all the public statements we've heard about the Haitian tragedy -- from President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton or USAID chief Rajiv Shah -- no one had mentioned a key concern underlying the aggressive U.S. response. But… Continue reading
Jan 14 NPR Reporter: Relatively Minor Injuries Proving Fatal for Quake Victims By Hari Sreenivasan NPR correspondent Carrie Kahn called us late this afternoon from Haiti, where she has been covering treatment of quake victims and the frantic search for survivors in the hills around Port-au-Prince. She described American doctors' saying their patients… Continue reading
Jan 14 Salvation Army Disaster Chief: Bodies ‘Piled Up Like Cordwood’ By Dave Gustafson We spoke this afternoon with Bob Poff, the Salvation Army's divisional director of disaster services in Haiti, via Skype. Poff's apartment was destroyed and he and his wife lost most of their belongings. Quake victims have been pouring into… Continue reading
Jan 14 Hours From Epicenter, ‘Secondary Stresses’ for Haitian Hospital By Dave Gustafson We received an e-mail Wednesday from Ian Rawson, managing director of Hopital Albert Schweitzer Haiti -- a 100-bed referral hospital in central Haiti's Artibonite Valley three hours north of Port-au-Prince -- about what he was witnessing: We were not… Continue reading