Jan 13 Thousands Feared Dead as World Rushes to Respond to Haiti Disaster By Larisa Epatko The damage and casualties caused by a major earthquake that hit Haiti Tuesday continued to unfold a day later, and thousands were feared dead or trapped in the rubble in Port-au-Prince, Haiti's president said. Continue reading
Jan 13 How Job Numbers Stack Up Across Patchwork Nation By Hari Sreenivasan // In his latest visit to the Rundown, Patchwork Nation's Dante Chinni discussed how unemployment rates in some U.S. communities have fared over the last year, how income disparities break down across the country and how it all may… Continue reading
Jan 13 Reporter: In Port-au-Prince, Haitians Aid Each Other Amid Slow Quake Rescue Efforts By Simon Marks 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… Continue reading
Jan 13 Raw Footage: Earthquake Disaster in Port-au-Prince, Haiti By Maureen Hoch This raw footage from APTN shows the damage at the United Nation's office in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, after Tuesday's devastating earthquake. Stay tuned for ongoing coverage of the situation in Haiti online and on tonight's NewsHour broadcast. Continue reading
Jan 13 Outpouring of Aid Follows Enormous Haiti Quake By Talea Miller Pledges for financial aid and rescue workers for Haiti are pouring in from around the globe, as aid organizations on the ground start to assess the magnitude of the humanitarian crisis left in the wake of Tuesday's devastating quake. Country… Continue reading
Jan 13 Creedon: Just Before Quake, ‘Signs of Progress’ in Haiti By Simon Marks Father Gerry Creedon, pastor of St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church in Arlington, Va., has been visiting Haiti for 19 years and left Port-au-Prince Tuesday morning -- just hours before the massive quake struck there. Creedon arrived in Haiti on… Continue reading
Jan 13 Initial U.S. Effort Focused on Saving Lives By Quinn Bowman The top coordinator for the U.S. response to the massive earthquake in Haiti said the government's first priority is to direct resources toward finding and rescuing people trapped by the earthquake. The U.S. Agency for International Development's Administrator Rajiv Shah… Continue reading
Jan 13 Obama: U.S. Coordinating Swift Response to Haitian Earthquake By Quinn Bowman President Barack Obama pledged this morning that the United States would offer a rapid response to help Haiti dig out from the "especially cruel and incomprehensible" 7.0 earthquake that shook the Caribbean nation on Tuesday. "I have directed my administration… Continue reading
Jan 13 Haiti Relief Effort: How to Contribute By Jason Breslow For readers looking to contribute to the relief effort in Haiti, here are a few of the organizations collecting donations. NPR has also compiled a list, which you can find here: Hope for Haiti Now Action Against… Continue reading
Jan 13 Haiti Braces for Massive Casualties in Aftermath of Earthquake By Jason Breslow Haiti is bracing for massive casualties Wednesday morning as international aid groups scramble to piece together a response to the devastating magnitude-7.0 earthquake that struck the island nation late Tuesday afternoon. The quake, the worst to hit Haiti in… Continue reading