reporters cover stories but for all us here for cnn, this is life and death. for the people of haiti this is life and death, and their stories deserve to be told. we'll be here tomorrow at 10:00. our coverage continues tonight, tomorrow, and in the days and weeks ahead. we'll see you tomorrow night. tonight haiti, the desperate hanging on. >> this little girl -- >> reaching out for help. >> you will not be forsaken.

you will not be forgotten. in this your hour of greatest need, america stands with you, the world stands with you. >> can the world see haiti through the human suffering and heartache and save its country and people who have nothing left and no where else to turn, next on "larry king live." or first guest has had quite a day in port-au-prince. before we speak with him, though, we want to show you how sanjay examined and treated a 15-day-old baby after he was approached by the father asking for help.

watch this incredible moment. okay. i'm sorry. we don't have that video. what happened, sanjay? >> well, this was a situation that's playing out over and over again, as you might imagine in port-au-prince. families and in this case the uncle of a 15-day-old baby walking through the streets with this baby looking for help, any kind of help. in this case specifically i want aid neurosurgeon to look at this baby who they were concerned about with a head injury. the baby was in a home that was devastated by the earthquake. the mother died in that accident, and the father was simply too distraught to leave the house. eventually the uncle came and grabbed the baby and walked the streets looking for help and ran into us, larry, at that point. he asked for help, and i was able it to look at the child, determine what the injuries were, and recommend a course of

treatment. this baby, 15-day-old baby i think is going to do well, but again, this situation is playing out over and over again. >> larry: sanjay, what must this be like for you? they don't train you for this in medical school. how do you handle this? i know you're a doctor and reporter, but emotionally. >> larry, i'll tell you, this has been one of the most difficult stories to cover in part because we're here so quickly and saw just the bodies in the streets and the people just depletely desperate and feeling hopeless. emotionally it's tough because i have my own children, three of my own children. you see these kids who are hurt, who are injured, and who don't seem to have any care that's readily available to them. makes you think of your own kids, and that's tough. i think what's especially frustrating, though, is that as

you and i talked about last night lashgsy, i'm a doctor first. i've been able to help a lot of people i think today, but the problem is that we -- there's not the most basic resources, larry. gauze, bandages, orthopedic equipment, antibiotics, analgesi analgesics. simple pain medication to ease the suffering without the able to do anything else. even that's not an option for a lot of people. that part is very, very difficult and frustrating, and it it makes you a little angry that this is happening and people are dying who shouldn't be dying and wouldn't be dying in most other countries around the world. >> larry: one other thing, sanjay. how good are the doctors? >> how good are the doctors? they seem very good. they seem very limited. haiti has one of the lowest doctor-to-patient ratios anywhere in the world. i'm at the hospital one of the

few standing in the port-au-prince area. it's a hospital for sure, except for the lack of resources. larry, it's dark outside. behind me this is sort of a makeshift area out here. it's sort of an overflow area, but for the patients whom the health care team said there's nothing we can do for you. either you're not sick enough, or you're simply too sick. about every 20 minutes or so you have family members who start to wail and really being quite agitated because they recognize a family member has died. this is the reality of what's happening right now here in port-au-prince, larry. >> larry: dr. sanjay gupta. let's economic in with ivan watson, a cnn course dents who has done noble work over the past few days. he reap ma

rescuers rescued her in the last hour. what happened, ivan? >> this is an 11-year-old girl, larry, that we stumbled across like sanjay did with just people coming up and asking for help. in this case it was a mother who said, i'm by myself. i have one girl and she's struck and there's nobody to help. brother, please help me. we went to take a look, and, in fact, this 11-year-old girl was caught underneath the rubble of a house amid the bodies of an estimated 30 other people who did not survive the quake in the immediate surroundings in that same building. this girl was talking to us and she was screaming in pain and in fear. her right leg was trapped. we learned that shortly he after 6:00 p.m. local time finally after hours to days of efforts, they were able to find a small generator to run a small electric-powered saw, which was needed to cut through a metal beam to release this young girl. now she's -- they're looking for

medical care for this girl, and as sanjay mentioned, that is another huge hurdle in a place where the medical system is simply overwhelmed by the enormous number of casualties and victims here, larry. >> larry: ivan, it seems insurmountable. the problems seem -- are they solvable? is this going to iron out ever? >> well, you know, i think the city is still reeling, but now we're starting to hear about the first aid workers arriving and the first shipments of aid are starting to come in. the fact is that the state here, which was weak to begin with, the haitian government, was crippled by this earthquake. a number of ministries collapsed. we talked to a police officer, a police commander, who described to us how not only had the prison broken open allowing a lot of dangerous inmates to leave and some had attacked manufacture his he own police officers today.

but in addition to that, he had two wounded men that he wanted treatment for, and he didn't know where to take them because the hospitals are so overloaded. now, we are hearing that rescue workers are starting to come in. we saw teams from the u.s., from chile and france working at one location. we know more material is coming in. it will get better in the days to come. boy, these first 48 hours have been brutal and heart-breaking to see the haitians in this state. >> larry: that's ivan watson on the scene doing noble work as we continue our coverage. we'll be back with more. an incredible story of a young lady we'll meet. she's in miami now. she lost her leg in the earthquake in haiti. don't go away.

joining us in miami is a graduate student at arizona state university teaching adult literacy in haiti trapped after the house she was staying in collapsed on her. she was brought to miami last night for treatment. part of her leg was amputated. she's at the university of miami jackson memorial medical center. ho are you doing, christa?

>> i'm doing really well, all things considered. >> larry: what part of the leg was removed? >> my leg was caught between a cement staircase and the concrete roof that fell on top of it. the shinbone was clean broken through. there's about 6 inches of bone left below my knee. i'm having surgery again tomorrow, and they hope they're able to keep most of that. >> larry: how are you dealing with it emotionally? >> i'm so thankful that i'm alive that one foot is a pretty small price to pay. i've got two arms that work and one good leg, and that's a lot more than than a lot of people. >> larry: i understand your brother and some friends, it took them 90 minutes to dig you out. tell me what happened. >> yeah, my brother, yulien ran down the stairs before me, so he wasn't hurt. i slipped going down the stairs,

and they got my right leg, which was the one badly damaged, uncovered first. i was able to turn around and see for the first time that it had been basically already amputated. it was hanging on by a little bit of stuff and julien put a tourniquet on out of electrical cord. both a wall and roofed collapsed on top of that, so they had to find a pick ax to break up the slab to lift it and get me out. >> larry: how bad was the pain? >> it was kind of so bad you don't count. i was just trying to not panic and stay positive. >> larry: did they treat you well in haiti? >> i am incredibly lucky. i was so well-treated. our host jerrold had a motorcycle in the courtyard of the house we were in that he

drove me three kilometers down the the road to the military base where i did spend the night on the grass. in the morning they brought me into their gate house, and i got fed tea and biscuits and kashi and i was as well cared for as could be. there weren't the medical resources that i needed, but everything that they had they helped me with. everything that they could do, they helped me with. >> larry: how did they get you to miami? >> i -- from the sri lankan -- it's a u.n. -- a u.n. peace keeping mission. a u.s. army helicopter -- a u.s. army ambulance drove me the hour from where we were to port-au-prince where then i was put on a private jet with i think seven other wounded american citizens and we flew quickly to miami where we were

brought here. >> larry: in view of all of this, you plan to go back to haiti? >> several people have asked me, and i don't quite yet have an answer. i do want to be sure that the people of haiti get the help that they need, because the sanitation conditions there are really terrible and they need -- they need all the medical assistance they can get, and they need not only to be dependent on immediate aid right now, but they also need to build into a future economy where they're not as dependent on aid. >> larry: boy, i wish you the best. what are you majoring in? >> i'm studying sustainability. >> larry: boy, perfect topic. >> yep. i think there's a lot to be learned about it from my recent experience. >> larry: good look, christa.

we want to thank the cooperation of the folks at university of miami jackson memorial center. very famed institution i know quite well. we'll check in with anderson cooper on the ground in haiti when we come back.

>> larry: the state department is trying to confirm the number of americans killed in the earthquake. they tell us tonight that one of their own has died. victoria delong, and they credit her with advancing the partnership between the united states and haiti and promoting peace. we extend our condolences to her family. let's check in with anderson cooper on duty in port-au-prince. you tweeted today anderson that the camera lens is too small to

capture what's going on. can you elaborate? >> it is, larry. let me tell you what the noise is behind me. there's a group of about 100 men chanting and sort of running through the streets. it's the kind of thing you see a lot here in the last 24 hours. people trying to rally their own spirits singing songs, sings psalms, and praying out loud in large groups in the park. that's the noise behind me. it's like a parade-like atmosphere. it's in stark contrast to what we've seen throughout the day. this isn't just some story you go to and package. this is something happening around the clock. this is an event, a historic event that is occurring in realtime 24 hours a day just around the clock. it's a complete -- it's an extraordinary experience just to be here, and i think the camera lens is too small to capture all that's going on. that's why we have correspondence all throughout port-au-prince trying to have as

many cameras at as many locations to report the story. what's happening here is extraordinary. you talked to that young woman whose leg was virtually amputated in the earthquake. there are so many people who have struggled and are still struggling who are trapped underneath the rubble right now and may still be alive. there is still hope here, and there's so much sorrow and struggle and people here just want the world to know what's happening. >> larry: how do you circumvent? how do you know where you go each day or where you're going to go in your two-hour segment at the top of the hour? do you stay firm, or do you move around? >> to be honest, you don't know where you'll go every day. you wake up and step out the door, and there are things happening around you. just a question do you turn left or right? do you point the camera up? do you point it down? i had planned to go to one part of port-au-prince today, and on driving there i came across a family who had a casket that they were -- that was on top of a wheel barrow they were pushing

through the streets to get to the cemetery. they spent all the money on the casket. they didn't have money to bury their daughter who was 28 years who was a journalist who died while teaching a class. i decided forget about where we're going, we'll follow this family. the scene at the cemetery is -- the pictures tell the story tonight at 10:00, but there were bodies piled up in a pile. people couldn't afford caskets brought bodies there and were dumped in a pile. at first when you looked at it, you couldn't tell what you were looking. they were bodies. they were little children, women, men. they don't bury people in the ground here. they put them in chiropractrypt new orleans. they were opening up old crypts and shoveling as many body induce the crypts as possible and treeing to reseal them. i saw four being shoved into an old crypt. they resealed it. the cemeteries are overwhelmed.

the hospitals are overwhelmed. the clinics are overwhelmed. >> larry: you don't get immune to this, do you? >> never. i mean, i hope never to. if you get immune to it, you have no business being here. >> larry: anderson, we'll look for you at the top of the hour. >> thanks, larry. >> larry: anderson cooper. for the up-to-the minute information about the disaster in haiti go to cnn.com/larryking. follow cnn reporters on the groun around the clock and link to their twitter accounts. back after this. thing as taking a chance?

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know, and still praying for hope. people praying for their life. >> larry: have you been in touch with your relatives? >> oh, yeah. i was able to get in touch three hours after the incident through e-mail. i was able to talk to, you know, my parents, my dad over there. a lot of them are safe. a couple missing. a couple injuries, but thank god, you know, a lot of them still alive. >> larry: last year haiti was hammered by three hurricanes and a tropical storm. you went there last august. you could never have expected an earthquake, did you? >> never. never. not something soon and that magnitude. it's very unexpected. it's very tough on all of us, you know? last month i went over there and we just started to get toward it a little bit and people trying to get their life back to normal.

you know, and i was looking forward to start doing stuff for the children over there and create an opportunity with unicef. you know, didn't ever expect something like this would happen like that. >> larry: are you going to get the chance to go down? >> yes. i'm looking to go down pretty soon in the next few days or so. hopefully i get some times off, you know, from practice and get there real quick and kind of distribute some of the stuff i'd be giving. i just quickly had to make a donation to help out real quick in the need and there's going to be more coming out, money donations coming from my part to different organizations and help out as soon as possible and hope fully help stabilize the situation. >> larry: the team would understand if you missed a game or two, wouldn't they? >> yeah. you know, it's been a tough year for us and i want to be there for them. i know the situation is a crucial situation, but i don't

think they would mind. you know, i'm trying to do my best. since it's not too far from philly and try to make it there. >> larry: you said haitians are tough at heart and deal with things as best they can. it's tough to be a haitian, isn't it? >> it is. all their life, you can read the history of our life. we fought, you know, our heart out. we have our dependency for over 200 years. ever since then things have been going tough for us. we keep smiling and through misery we have a situation where nobody, other places would dare make fun of. that's who we are. we're tough people. we're appreciative people. we're lovable people. hardworking people. for whatever reason we're going through all these disasters.

we keep on praying. we're really spiritual people, too. >> larry: do you expect, samuel, the nba to help? >> yes, they're doing everything in their power to help out. through the media and through organizations and facilitating accessibility for me. they're doing everything on their hands. my teammates and teams and loved ones around me helping out and doing everything they can. everybody is pulling together here. we're not going to -- we're not going to give up. we're going to keep trying and do everything in our power. >> larry: thank you, samuel, the philadelphia 76ers. native of haiti. back with more after this. i love winter.

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>> larry: welcome back to another special edition of "larry king live." cnn has just received a public service announcement recorded by michelle obama encouraging americans to support haitian relief efforts. let's take a look. >> the images from haiti are heartbreaking. homes, hospitals, and schools destroyed. families searching for loved ones, parents trying to feed their children, but we can all do something. we can help the american red cross as it delivers the food, water and medicine that can save lives.

donate $10 by texting haiti to 90999. visit redcross.org or call 1-800-red-cross. thanks for your help. >> larry: let's meet dave toycen, he's in port-au-prince, a relief expert with world vision. a 35-year veteran of experience in disaster response. he worked with the tsunami in asia, the earthquake in china. he arrived today. you've been doing this for a long time. how does this compare to things you've seen in the past? >> larry, once again, every one of these disasters has its own personality. i have to say seeing the destruction here today, how people's lives have been affected, we're especially concerned about children. and i think the common view or the view that certainly i share is that we just need more help. we don't have enough water. we don't have enough medical supplies. we don't have enough blankets. there are people that just aren't getting the help they need and it's just not acceptable.

>> larry: why is it so hard getting supplies in? >> first of all because of the -- just the situation in the country to begin with. there isn't a lot of residual supplies here anyway. then it's just the inability really to get them here fast enough. there's capacity issues at the airport. of course, there continues to be challenges with the broken infrastructure that affects even our distribution here. i have to say right now it's more an issue of getting it here so it's available now, not two weeks from now or three weeks from now. >> larry: you i understand have sponsored a child in haiti. so you have a bond with this personally. how is it affecting you? >> well, i -- fortunately my sponsored child, she's now 17 years old, she's a teenager, is not here, but you don't need much of an imagination when i

see some of the children that i've seen today. the worst situation is coming by and seeing a child that's dead, lying along the roadside. it's really difficult. in our world to see that happening today. yet i have to say because i do sponsor a child in haiti i have a sense for their hope for the future and even in the tough times here right now, there's no question that children as well as adults haven't given up and they're determined to look after their families and somehow come through this. >> larry: you're a relief expert with world vision. what do you physically do, yourself? >> well, i'm really here more in a communications role. that's my background. that's my task. i'm responsible to report back to our constituency as to how the relief is taking place. is it being done well? are we satisfied as an organization that we're exercising good stewardship? and i'm here also representing particularly the offices that

provide the funding on the private side as well as the government connections, too. >> larry: how are the survivors doing? >> well, it's interesting. i was talking to one of our senior staff and this, to me, was a really poignant moment. he said to me, i have been a helper and this is the first time i've been a victim as well. and he was talks about the trauma and just the anxiety that brought to his experience that even though he's a haitian and has lived her all his life, this has been a new experience to him. i think we see elements of that, most people that you talk to. they feel -- they feel this. even if they weren't particularly affected directly themselves. they still feel like they've been victimized by this earthquake. >> larry: i asked anderson about immunity to this. he said if you have immunity you don't belong there. you've dealt with this 35 years. does it ever get to be, you

know, i don't want to say old hat, or is it another day or every experience more emotional than the next? >> i have to say if i get to that point then i really think it's time for me to quit. every one of these touches you. today i was at a local hospital where our volunteers were distributing medical supplies and nursing wounds of people that had been injured. i was watching them and then to the side a man brought up a skeletal 10-year-old child that was hardly alive. obviously this had happened before the earthquake. on the street was a man carrying a casket. a family grieving. then there were two men walking down the street. one leaning on the other weeping profusely. i looked off to the left and there was a dying young woman. she had died and was laying along the street. that's both the -- a hospital should be a place of healing but it's also a place of despair. that's the combination that we have in haiti right now.

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>> larry: the top state department official dealing with us will be with us shortly. we'll meet him in a couple minutes. susan candiotti is standing by in port-au-prince. she was at the scene of a collapsed building with a man trapped inside as rescuers struggled to free him. what happened, susan? >> reporter: well, what happened was this. this is a 21-year-old man in a school building. he had been there for 46 hours and people were using anything they could find, for example, in this case a chisel and a blow torch to try to free him. one of his legs was stuck and one of his hands was stuck also. and finally what happened was this. you know, in this profession we learn a new term if we're lucky, every day. this time i learned the word that means people working

together for a common goal. this case they got an assembly line together and doing different tasks to free the man. among them, taking buckets of water because they were taking a blow torch to free his hand and had to burn his skin to free him from the rebar. you could hear him screaming in agony. so they were dumping water on him every once in a while to try to ease his pain. in fact, in the end, they got him out and just before they did and before he was suffering from pain, we were able to get a microphone up to him and he took it through the small crawl space. they fed the line to him and i asked, what's going through your mind before they used the blow torch? he said, i just pray to god that he will save my life. and in the end they were able to free him and got him out of there. larry?

>> larry: what was that like for you? >> reporter: i couldn't imagine how they were going to get him out of there. this building was about a crush him, and rocks were starting to fall. we had to run back a few times, yet the people stayed underneath there. i was frightened. i didn't think he was going to make it. i couldn't see how they could possibly do it. after so many hours they pulled it off. with just a few simple tools. it was amazing. >> larry: we keep hearing about these haitians. what can you tell us about them as a people? >> reporter: as a people they're a very proud people. some of the friendliest, nicest people that i've ever met anywhere. because they have so little to begin with, a majority of them, the poorest country in the western hemisphere and yet you see -- here's an example of what you see. people who have no food these days unless they've saved

something behind before this disaster struck. yet, with a bottle of water i saw a mother today take that bottle of water. she stripped her children from their clothes and gingerly used the bottle of water to cleanse them gently with her hands as they stood there naked. then they put their dirty clothes back on again. this is the care they take of each other, of their families. what they're doing to try to help each other out of this disaster until more professional help allows them that. they will recover from this eventually. they've been down before. i'm sure they'll come back. it won't be easy. >> larry: you're a veteran of the tropics, havana, miami. you certainly could never have expected an earthquake. >> reporter: that's for sure. certainly in central america i have covered them before, but

this time i -- you just -- so many landmarks have been lost here. so many homes, that it is just an incredible sight to behold and how people are teeming out in the streets and yet so far they are remaining calm throughout. as you said, this party will be going on all night. people are afraid to go back home certainly so they're trying to make the very best of it. >> larry: thank you, susan candiotti. terrific work on the scene in port-au-prince. we're going to talk to the new director of u.s. aid in charge of coordinating american relief response to this disaster. he's the man in charge. what are they up against? you're going to find out right after the break. okay, class, our special guest is here -- ellen page. hi, ellen! hi, ellen! hi, ellen! hi, ellen! we're going on a field trip to china! wow. [ chuckles ] when i was a kid, we -- we would just go

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so we are working aggressively to try and address the needs and try to save lives while we still can in this early response period. i'm happy to describe a number of things we're doing but this is really a tremendous catastrophe. >> larry: our role, would you put it on a scale of 10 at 10? >> well, you know, the president has been very clear that we should focus in this early period on saving lives and we should take a swift and coordinated and aggressive action using all the resources across the federal government. the cabinet and the rest of the federal government has responded as such. we've set up an operation center at the u.s. agency for international development. we have an office of foreign disaster assistance doing this work for decades. this really has been an unprecedented amount of cooperation and response from a

number of our partners. so, you know, we're working toward a 10 but there's always a lot to do. the needs on the ground are going to far outstrip any capacity to provide support to the people who have lost life, but the president asked us to be swift and aggressive and we are trying to do that the best we can. >> larry: yesterday former general russel honore, who was in charge of katrina, says he thinks the u.s. military should be in charge. what do you think? >> we're working very closely with the military and fema, the department of homeland security and other agencies in the federal government. it's a close partnership. for example, we wanted to stand up and get urban search and rescue teams on the ground as quickly as possible. we had two teams at usaid ready to go, 72-person teams from fairfax, virginia. they're also from los angeles in california. we got them in. we've been working with fema to send up six additional teams. transport and logistics has been

provided by the united states southern command and the other military and coast guard assets that are being deployed to do that. we're working together as a team in order to achieve the outcome which in this early period is to save lives and is quickly becoming a large-scale relief operation where we'll be setting up a commodity transport system with the military in order to make sure the haitian public has access to water, to food, to basic medical services and to some of the other things this need like blankets and tarps to meet their basic needs right now. this has been a tremendous catastrophe, but we're responding strongly and working very closely with the military. >> larry: doesn't somebody or some thing or some entity have to be in charge? >> oh, of course. and in this situation the u.s. agency for international development is leading the response. we're doing that with a lot of participation from every agency across the federal government and doing that actively. so that's exactly what we're doing. it's exactly what you'll see

unfold over the coming days and weeks and, frankly, over a pretty long time horizon. we have a long-term commitment to haiti. haiti is close to us. it is a country where we've had a long relationship. we've invested significant resources in the haitian people. our commitment to the haitian people extends over a significant period of time. >> larry: we shall stay in constant touch with you. thank you, dr. shah. >> thank you, larry. >> larry: dr. rajiv shah. administrator of usaid. back with more after this.

>> larry: back to port-au-prince and the doctor of the international medical corps. what is that, doctor, what is the international medical corps? >> they said the interview is finished. >> larry: doctor, do you hear me? >> communication. >> larry: doctor doesn't hear me. we made a bad connection. robert foster is in virginia beach, virginia. his 13-year-old son, andrew foster, has been missing in haiti. we're happy to report he's been found. he's with his uncle. they were on a business trip. planned to go scuba diving. robert, wasn't he supposed to be in school? >> yeah.

we decided to give him a break, you know, traveling with his uncle. trip of a lifetime and everything. we thought he could afford a few days off and obviously was just that, trip of the lifetime. >> larry: what was his uncle doing there? >> actually it's my wife's aunt and uncle. they've owned property there many years and been going to haiti 38 years. he's a retired dentist. had a private practice in new york. she's a retired registered nurse. they have been doing humanitarian work there for many years and just fell in love with the culture and the people and decided to buy property and stay and been going ever since. you know, over the years the home has gotten a bit much to deal with so they decided they would sell it and that was their business down there, this trip to close on the property and for mike to share a few things with andrew on what was supposed to be mike's last trip. >> larry: now as i understand it you were on cnn talking about

andrew and trying to get in touch with him and andrew saw you and found a way to reach you. how did that happen? >> my wife actually took the call. as it turns out they found their way to a place called visa lodge which apparently is north of the airport there and were sitting there with some folks and got the tv working somehow and there it was, the story on cnn. i guess the guys who were there with andrew and michael just obviously saw the kid sitting right there next to him, was on tv and somebody found a satellite phone and it happened to work. and they -- >> larry: congratulations, robert. what a relief. >> i can't tell you. >> larry: oh, boy. we can check in with port-au-prince with the doctor who i think can hear us now. he arrived in haiti yesterday. he's with the international medical corps. >> i can hear you well. >> larry: what is the international medical corps?

>> international medical corps is a relief organization working for over 25 years around the world providing emergency medical relief as well as training during the emergency phases as well as post-disaster. >> larry: where are you personally based? >> we are personally based right now at the vila creole. we might change our base. we arrived about 24, 26 hours ago. we have been treating patients right there front of the hotel which we made into a makeshift hospital. majority of patients are with fractures, open fractures. fractures of skull as well as already starting some infections. we've been treating them with the supplies we brought in with us. we have other doctors coming from dominican republic.

we hope to be in full force tomorrow. we have talked to one of the main hospitals here, the hospital director is very welcoming us to establish a base at the central hospital, central university hospital right in front of the presidential palace which used to be a 700-bed hospital, but right now it's almost not functioning. it's only some beds established on the premises but none of the buildings are functional. so we're trying to establish a base there, bring more doctors, bring more supplies and start treating patients. >> larry: how many doctors are with you? >> i have a team of three right now, and 12 more are coming on their way. we also are partnering with other local groups here so we have more people helping us. we're trying to coordinate, obviously. we have a large number of players on the ground and that's

difficult, but that's paramount important. >> larry: are the haitian medical people being of a lot of help? >> yes. they're trying to be of help, but as i said in this 700-bed hospital there are only four doctors today. four doctors. one, the medical director, and a couple of other doctors. they also suffered from this disaster. they're looking for their families. they're not able to come to work. some of them probably are dead, so we'll have to when we establish base here we'll have to also train doctors, train nurses as we go along. >> larry: i salute you, doctor. you and yours and all the work they're doing with the international medical corps. we'll be keeping in touch. cnn, as you know, has been covering this thoroughly around the clock. i don't think you'll get better coverage anywhere. we want to remind you we'll be with you throughout the weekend