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
Jan 14 Scenes of Destruction in Haiti, From Above By Chris Amico Images of this week's massive earthquake in Haiti are now flowing out of the country as aid workers and journalists flow in. What we have seen so far confirms the obvious: devastation is massive and widespread. Buildings collapsed. Homes destroyed. Continue reading
Jan 14 Text Donations a Boon for Haiti Relief Effort By Jason Breslow As Haiti continues to reel from Tuesday's devastating earthquake, Americans are donating to the relief effort in droves, and for the first time ever, tens of thousands are doing so via text message. Any mobile phone user can donate $10… Continue reading
Jan 14 Haiti at Risk for Disease Outbreaks By Talea Miller Treating the injured is still the first priority in Port au Prince, but experts are raising the alarm about the urgent need to address other health issues before it's too late. Dr. Tammam Aloudat, of the International Federation of Red… Continue reading
Jan 14 Health Reform Negotations Continue as White House, Unions Reach Tentative Deal on ‘Cadillac’ Tax Updated 5:55 p.m. Union leaders have reached an agreement with the White House on a tax on high-cost "Cadillac" health care plans, one of the main sticking points in negotiating a compromise health care reform bill. In order to pay… Continue reading
Jan 14 U.S. Pledges $100 Million for Haiti Quake Relief By Quinn Bowman President Obama spoke in the diplomatic room of the White House for the second time in as many days Thursday to address the U.S. government's ongoing response to the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti this week. He announced that U.S. Continue reading
Jan 13 Digging Through Rubble, Haitians Hunt for Signs of Life By Hari Sreenivasan After speaking with us earlier today by phone, we were able to establish a Skype video connection with journalist Ansel Herz who has been covering the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince. “A lot of… Continue reading
Jan 13 Scientists Explain Geology of Haiti Earthquake By Lea Winerman Tuesday's magnitude 7.0 earthquake was the largest recorded in Haiti since 1770, but more than a dozen quakes of that size have shaken the country's Caribbean neighbors repeatedly over the past centuries. That's because Hispaniola, the Caribbean Island Haiti… Continue reading