Mar 01 Watch Building Codes, Preparation Re-examined After Chile’s Quake As aftershocks continue to strike Chile after Saturday's, Judy Woodruff talks to a crisis expert and a quake researcher about how the damage from this powerful quake differs from a less severe one that killed hundreds of thousands in Haiti. Continue watching
Mar 01 Watch Chile Reels from Quake Aftershocks as Troops Crack Down on Looting More than 700 people are dead after one of the most powerful earthquakes in more than a century hit Chile on Saturday. Since then, troops and police have cracked down on curfew violations in an effort to stop violence and… Continue watching
Feb 25 Haiti: Earthquake Survivors Deal With Grief By Larisa Epatko Hidden beneath the staggering death toll from the January quake in Haiti are the survivors, like Varnek-Edouard Bazile, an English teacher who rescued 20 students before making it back to his home, which had collapsed on his wife and two… Continue reading
Feb 24 African Nations Contribute What They Can to Haitian Relief By Jason Kane In the weeks that followed the devastating earthquake in Haiti, a number of African countries -- long considered the most impoverished in the world -- responded by pledging millions of dollars in quake assistance. Continue reading
Feb 18 Watch U.N. Under-Secretary General Updates Needs in Haiti Nearly 600,000 people are still without shelter as the rains begin to fall in Port-au-Prince. Ray Suarez speaks to Under-Secretary General John Holmes of the United Nations about Haiti's long journey of rebuilding ahead and the state of the relief… Continue watching
Feb 18 Watch Tough, Low-Cost Wheelchairs Needed in Haiti Spencer Michels reports on efforts in San Francisco to design and build heavy-duty, low-cost wheelchairs for use in the rough terrain of Haiti and around the third world. Continue watching
Feb 17 Haiti Releases 8 U.S. Missionaries By Jason Breslow A judge in Haiti has freed eight of the 10 American missionaries arrested on charges of child kidnapping after trying to bring 33 child survivors of last month's earthquake to an orphanage in the Dominican Republic. Judge Bernard Saint-Vil… Continue reading
Feb 17 Economic Cost of Haiti Quake Could Hit $14 Billion By Talea Miller Recovery from the January earthquake that is believed to have killed hundreds of thousands of Haitians and left even more homeless could cost up to $14 billion, according to Latin America's main development bank. The Inter-American Development Bank's… Continue reading
Feb 17 Watch News Wrap: Toyota Considering Corolla Recall In other news Wednesday, Toyota is considering a recall of its best-selling Corolla model after complaints of steering problems. Also, NATO troops in Afghanistan continued their offensive against the Taliban resistance in the southern town of Marjah. Continue watching
Feb 16 Haiti Quake Propels Use of Twitter as Disaster-Relief Tool By Larisa Epatko Kate Starbird, a graduate student at the University of Colorado at Boulder, studies the use of Twitter during crises. When she and the other UC researchers heard about the massive earthquake in Haiti on Jan. 12, all they could do… Continue reading