Jan 17 In Haiti's Grim Landscape, Stories of Survival and Frustration By Larisa Epatko Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were still waiting desperately for aid Sunday, while rescue workers continued to pull people from collapsed buildings five days after an earthquake ravaged Port-au-Prince. World leaders vowed to help the impoverished nation rebuild. Continue reading
Jan 16 Obama, Bush, Clinton Join Forces for Haiti Appeal By Jason Breslow President Barack Obama joined predecessors George W. Bush and Bill Clinton at the White House Saturday to announce a fundraising appeal to benefit Haiti in "one of the largest relief efforts in our history," Mr. Obama said. Continue reading
Jan 16 'Race Against Time' to Distribute Haitian Relief By Larisa Epatko As supplies continued to stack up at Haiti's airport Saturday, aid workers and officials pushed to get the much-needed provisions to the masses of earthquake survivors in and around the capital Port-au-Prince. Continue reading
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 Haiti's Crushing Quake By Larisa Epatko Haiti's earthquake was "a catastrophe of monumental proportions," said Nick Birnback, spokesman for the U.N. Department of Peacekeeping Operations. The Caribbean nation was still mending from a series of major storms in 2008 and deep-seated political problems when the quake… 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 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 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 15 Watch Ambassador: 'We're Going to Have Some Order in Haiti' Haiti's ambassador to the U.S., Raymond Joseph, discusses how the Haitian government is responding to the crisis even though many of its workers are quake victims as well. Continue watching