Jan 15 Watch Brazil Spearheading U.N. Peacekeeping Efforts in Haiti U.N. Undersecretary-General Alain Le Roy discusses the 9,000-person U.N. force in Haiti, which is being led by Brazilian soldiers. Continue watching
Jan 15 Watch U.S., World Assembling Help for Haiti Kwame Holman reports on how the United States is responding to help Haiti, and then Jeffrey Brown talks to a Los Angeles Times reporter about international efforts on the ground. Continue watching
Jan 15 Watch Many Americans Among Dead, Missing in Haiti Quake Up to 50,000 Americans live in Haiti, and six are now confirmed dead with many more missing. Bill Neely of ITN has more on how U.S. citizens have been affected. Continue watching
Jan 15 Watch In Haiti, the Sights and Sounds of a Sudden Disaster A look at some of the sights and sounds of the massive earthquake that pummeled Haiti Tuesday and victims' desperate efforts to survive. Continue watching
Jan 15 Watch Shields and Brooks Examine Mass. Senate Race, U.S. Quake Aid Columnists Mark Shields and David Brooks sort through the week's news, including the tight Senate race in Massachusetts and the American response to the devastating earthquake in Haiti. Continue watching
Jan 15 Watch Staggering Death Toll Continues to Climb in Haiti The scene in Port-au-Prince worsened with casualty estimates climbing and survivors begging for relief. Independent Television News reports on the staggering human toll of the earthquake. Continue watching
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 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