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everyone who can help needs to see. for all of us at "360" and cnn, good night from haiti. tonight, buried alive in haiti. are there signs of life trapped under tons of concrete. is someone tapping for help? it is one of the few encouraging moments in a country of rotting corpses and all-around misery. secretary of state hillary clinton arrives to see the horror firsthand. >> you have been severely tested but i believe that haiti can come back even stronger and better. >> as the situation grows more desperate by the day, what kind of future awaits? "haiti in agony" next on this special edition of "larry king live."
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welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer sitting in for larry tonight. i want to alert you larry will be here on the air sunday with the latest news from haiti. larry has a big event planned for monday. mick jagger, seal, colin powell, ringo starr, will i am, ryan seacrest, taylor leoni are a few who will join to help him. first the news from haiti today. estimates of those dead are pegged at about 100,000 as of now. secretary of state clinton arrived in haiti this afternoon and the top two diplomats for the united nations stationed in haiti were officially declared dead today. carl penhall is on the scene. it has been quite a day. set the scene for us. tell our viewers what happened. >> reporter: well, certainly what i've been looking at today
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is the relief operation. you are right. the recovery operation is still going on. people are still looking for signs of life among the rubble but of course there are thousands upon thousands of people who have lost their homes, lost everything result of this earthquake. the effort is to get aid to them quickly and saflly. safely, why? because the united nations handing out a lot of this aid and peacekeepers are fearful there could be an explosion of violence as people become hungry and desperate and beyond that explosion of violence keeping order in food lines is complicated because people will not stand in line. that said, after i went out today i was a lot more hopeful. i could see the troops were managing to keep order. the haitians themselves were keeping some semblance of order in the food lines. also today i saw u.s. helicopters swooping in and over
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a city park where people, earthquake survivors underneath. the helicopter swoops down to ten feet above the ground as was tossing aid. that risks running a stampede but in fact when the helicopter left the people organized themselves again, controlled themselves, maybe this time haiti is at least going to be able to receive the aid in a peaceful fashion, wolf. >> it looks like there is a lot of food, a lot of supplies arriving at the airport but it is hard to get oit out there by car or whatever. the vehicles, it doesn't look very orderly. >> one of the log jams is at the airport as the number of planes coming in, being unloaded. port-au-prince airport is not big enough to hand tl air traffic. another log jam is the lack of
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coordination between the u.n., the institutions of the u.n. and with some independent ngos as well. not to krit side them. they want to do the best they can. they are striving to do that. there is a lack of coordination. i have seen the same when disaster struck in flooding and hurricanes in 2008 and 2005. i don't know why there is that lack of coordination. united nations workers themselves are saying that. but also in one of the warehouses i visited of the world food program there is a problem there, too. they haven't been left aside from the effects of this earthquake. this warehouse was severely damaged. one of the walls threatened to cave in. the haitians when there was a small earth tremor in the course of the day ran out. that left u.n. workers and peruvian troops to load some of this food aid into trucks. but they have to do it by hand.
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why? because of the earthquake damage the doors were shut so close together they couldn't be opened, you couldn't get in there with a forklift. they had to be loaded by hand. things like that as well are causing additional problems. clearing the streets. that is an additional problem. u.n. security forces tried to deliver two trucks of aid to one part of the city. they had to pull back. they did feel the risk of violence was great and opted to go somewhere else in the city. >> stand by, anderson cooper is on the phone. anderson, where are you right now and what are you seeing? unfortunately, i think we lost our connection with anderson cooper. we will reconnect with him. technology is very, very serious problem dealing with haiti right now. it is amazing we are getting through as clearly as we are. karl penhaul is still with us. karl, it is clear that the
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haitian government is in charge? we know the u.s. military has officially taken charge of the airport. but there is a semblance of the haitian government on top of this? >> reporter: it certainly is not. yes. we have heard comments from the haitian president rene preval. we see in some of the lines principally for gasoline, haitian police standing by, in the streets i have seen one or two haitian police as well. you can't say there is haitian leadership here. you cannot say that haitians are in control. that said, again, going back to past experience, past disasters in haiti, you wouldn't have expected to see haitian leadership there either. they are absent from the scene. why is that? one of the reasons seems to be the haitian leaders, regional leaders, city leaders said in some cases they felt that white
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outsiders from the united nations and aid groups were virtually running a parallel government and weren't letting them take responsibility for any aid effort. i'm not sure weather they feel this is going on. it is a structural problem, a traditional problem, how far the government is in charge and how the united nations and other aid organizations are in charge and how these two interact with one another. >> at a time when so many people have died and many more we fear can die as well. we have established communications with anderson cooper. we will take a quick break and go to anderson right after this. d
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as president obama has said, we will be here today, tomorrow and for the time ahead. and speaking personally, i know of the great resilience and strength of the haitian people. you have been severely tested. >> the secretary of state spent part of the day today in port-au-prince at the airport. joining us on the phone is
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kenneth murton, the united states ambassador to haiti. what was accomplished mr. ambassador by the secretary's visit? >> well, i think the secretary sent a strong signal of support to the haitian government. particularly to president preval and to the prime minister. i think that is important. as you know, both secretary clinton and her husband have a special relationship with this country. i think it meant a lot to the president and prime minister she was here. >> what do you need the most, ambassador, right now? >> we need everything. one of the biggest problems is communication. telephone communication is being restored. we are getting satellite phones out to people we need to talk to. communication has been a huge, huge problem here. >> how many americans do you believe are dead?
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>> i honestly have no idea, no answer to that and i wouldn't want to speculate. >> are you keeping a rubbing talley, i assume ? >> we are keeping track. we are doing the best we can to get the american citizens here back to the states and back to their loved ones. >> are you familiar with the montana hotel in port-au-prince? >> very. >> we are told there are still missing americans under the rubble. is it your believe some of them may still be alive? >> it is my hope some of them are still alive. we have had teams nonstop since our teams have been here. several teams from the u.s. missions. they have been there around town
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helping to rescue haitians as well. >> mr. ambassador, good luck to you and the men and women working so hard to help save the people of haiti. >> thank you so much. i appreciate your wishes. >> thank you. >> let's go to anderson cooper. tell our viewers where you are and what you are see something. >> wolf, all day long we have been at a site where a daycare center where a crew of the l.a. county fire search-and-rescue team have been trying to locate a person who they heard when they first got there, a mother had flagged them down saying her child, her 10-year-old child was alive and was inside the wreckage and had been heard that morning and she has been trying for four days to get someone to pay attention. the crew went there and heard some signs of life. tapping sounds. they sent in dogs over the course of several hours. three dogs went in multiple times. each time those dogs did not get
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a positive hit. they still heard tapping. they kept working. hope turned to heartbreak after an hour of no longer hearing sounds they sent two more dogs in. those dogs did not get a hit and the search personnel determined there was no one still alive inside that structure. whether that means that the early sounds they heard were ambient voices or the sadder scenario whoever was in there alive when they first arrived could not hold out any longer. after four days in the rubble they died. i talked to one of the rescue personnel who obviously, they all take this very hard. they are risking their lives every day. they came all the way from l.a. county. they wanted as much as that
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child's mother who was standing next to them to find that little girl alive. they have now determined there are no signs of life in that building. the mother, sadly, as we drove away because they have gone on to another site where they have gotten a positive indication. a dog which is trained to detect living beings inside rubble got a positive indication 30 minutes ago there is life inside, somewhere inside the una bank building. crews are -- another crew from l.a. county has been working here for several hours. the crew i was with at the daycare center has stopped here to lend a hand if needed. as we pulled out from that daycare center that mother, who was first flagged us down at 12:30 this afternoon, is still there, still waiting to see what happens to her daughter.
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she believes maybe her daughter is alive and simply can't tap any longer. it was a heartbreaking scene as the lights were pulled down, the crews drove off to see that mother sitting silently praying for some sort of miracle, for something that will bring her daughter back to life. >> i see on the video, anderson, there are lights there that the search and rescue teams bring with them. i assume they are going to work through the night? >> i'm not sure what you are seeing now. if you are seeing video from the una bank there is var active search-and-rescue operation underway. if you are seeing video from earlier of the daycare center those lights have been pulled off and that search is over. it is a triage situation here. they are looking for life. at a later stage when this becomes a recovery effort they will go back in to bring out bodies. at this point they are trying to focus on the living.
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if there is a chance someone is alive somewhere -- if there is no chance at one site they move on to the next. they are at the una bank building and crews are working heart. what they rely on most more than anything are these dogs. if a doggetts a positive hit that is considered the gold standard. for the high tech equipment they have as we saw over the last few days, the hearing of the dogs is so sensitive, they put a lot of faith in that. they got a positive hit here. this has given the rescue workers hope. >> we will stay in close. the video was from earlier at the first sight where the lights are now down and the search has been suspended. let's hope they find something where you are right now. anderson cooper, we'll be checking back with him in 60
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let's go back to port-au-prince. you have an amazing story. you are surrounded by two kids. tell our viewers what happened. >> well, i had just picked my boys from their school and i had to stop by the supermarket to pick up the cat food that my daughter had called me, sent me an instant message to bring home
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for the cat. i was -- i had been in that supermarket for two minutes when that earthquake just came and in a matter of seconds my two boys and myself, we were buried under the supermarket. we spent eight hours buried there until three young guys were able to dig up to us and rescue us. >> we are seeing pictures. >> yeah. we were buried from 5:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. >> i'm seeing, just to be clear, those are your 12-year-old twins who were buried in this caribbean market with you. you spent eight hours under the rubble. is that right? >> that's right. that's correct. >> what were you thinking during those eight hours were you trapped in you couldn't move. what was going through your mind? >> well, at first when i heard
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the big noise and the shaking of the supermarket and felt it falling down on us i thought it was dead. after sometime when i realized we were still breathing and we were saved by a couple of dog food that prevent the roof crash us to the ground and created a cave, a tunnel for us where we were just sitting there. i said, well, if that cave was created that mean that god doesn't want us to die today so somebody may be coming to save us. i told my boys let us be calm. let us pray and wait for the rescue team that most probably will be coming to save us because we were not crushed at the first time. >> you are the director of logistics for the catholic relief services in haiti, is that right? >> that's right. and actually we have a big team working for the catholic relief services and we need all the
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help. we want to be able to respond to the needs of the haitian people that really, really affected by that big earthquake and if anyone wants to help us, they are go to our website which is www.cfs.org. we need everybody's help to respond. >> how are the 12-year-old twins doing emotionally and physically for that matter? >> physically they are doing great because for some reason they were really protected by god. they didn't have even a scratch from that event. they are physically okay. emotionally, family surrounded us so we are coping with that situation. they have their cousins, we have been staying together since that event. so i think because we did not panic when we in that cave that
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trauma might be bearable for them. but anyone could understand that going through that is not easy for anyone. >> we are happy you and your twins made it out alive and thank god for that. we really appreciate your joining us with your story. good luck. >> thank you. >> we have many more stories we want to share with you. we have additional information. our reporters on the scene in port-au-prince. this special "larry king live" will continue after this.
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we're continuing our coverage of the haiti earthquake and aftermath. this is a special "larry king live." i'm wolf blitzer reporting. tarmo was rescued from beneath the united nations headquarters. he was reunited with his family last night including his wife. what was it like when they earthquake hit port-au-prince? >> first of all, i would like to give my respects to my
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colleagues who didn't make it out from our building. i've learned some news today and it was -- it happened very fast, the building started shaking and then all of a sudden it all collapsed down while i was trying to get out of the building. >> we know that the top united nations officials were both officially announced dead by ban ki-moon the u.n. secreta where are you from originally? >> i'm from estonia. >> mamie, you were in miami or were you in port-au-prince with your kids. >> i had just arrived to miami. i spent the holidays with my husband. so i was home when i heard the news with my kids. >> you were in miami? >> yes, i was. >> tell me what it was like when
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you heard your husband was in the united nations compound? >> it took my breath away. i had just spoke on the my husband 20 minutes before the earthquake. i started seeing images on the news of the devastation and my heart sank. so i immediately began to, you know, contact my family in crystal city, missouri. our family in estonia and reached out to support from our friends in miami and we began to pray and it was actually interesting because a friend of mine had just given me this bracelet from bethlehem. i was wearing it and praying every day. i had a lot of support and prayer. >> how long was it before you knew for sure your husband was alive? >> it took about 38 hours. so with very little word on his status. it was that uncertainty, which i'm sure many families are going through right now, that i guess was the most difl part to endure.
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>> were you trapped in the rubble of that building? >> yes, i was. but i was very lucky. i got caught in the area, an opening between the ceiling and the floor that this concrete slabs protected me from three sides so the rubble didn't get to me. >> how many people were at that u.n. compound at that time? do you have any idea? >> i have no idea but it was still a working day. so it was a big building. >> it was about 5:00 p.m. late afternoon. >> yes. >> so people were still in their offices, still working. >> yes. >> how long had you been part of that united nations team in haiti? >> about 5 1/2 years. >> so you know this country quite well. are you surprised at the way the people of haiti have responded to this? it is a heartbreaking situation, as you can imagine.
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>> surprised. no. i know very little though because most of the time i was trapped there and then when i got out i left. but what i saw when i drove through the city i saw people come and try to work on -- to rescue to get their loved ones out of the destroyed buildings. i didn't see while i was there, i didn't see any disorder, any problems in the street. >> are you going to go back? >> it's early right now. i just want to be with my family, get rest and get myself checked out properly and everything and just spend time with my family. >> we want to wish you only the best. thank god you made it out. i know you must be very happy.
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mamie, i'm not going to ask you but i suspect i know the answer of whether or not i want him to go back. >> if i can just say one thing, it is definitely a small miracle. a huge miracle for our family. but in total with everything that is happening i still have hope for the other families out there. very confident with the rescue team that rescued my husband and the assistance that is arriving, the u.s. marines coming. so i'm hoping there will be more miracles to counterbalance the total destruction that is happening right now. that country has a soft spot. he is our hero. >> i'm hero to my family. >> we agree. >> the reel heroes were the people, my teammates and colleagues who were there for me and the rescue team who got me out. i'm grateful to them. >> go enjoy your family and appreciate the good things you are blessed with.
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let's go back to port-au-prince. joining us jason carroll on the scene, ivan watson is there as well. jason, what did you see today that jumped out at you as part of your coverage? >> reporter: so much jumped out at us specifically dealing with relief and trying to get the relief to people who need it the most. we were at a place called doma 40 b a section of the city. we went to a place that used to be a golf course. now it is a massive tent city. several thousand people who are there, many of them still in need of water, in need of food. at one point, wolf, military helicopters came in, dropped in some relief supplies. most relief organizers tell you that is not the best way to
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distribute goods simply because when you do that the strong can get to it, they run up the hillsides where the supplies are being dropped, the weak, the elderly and sick cannot get to the supplies. that was one of the moments that was tough to watch. we made it to an area called canape. the western part of port-au-prince. there was an organization dealing with relief there called world vision. it was more orderly. they handed out water. they handed out clothing and hygiene to the people there who needed it. much more orderly, but it goes to show you how there is this division in terms of how the goods are being distributed at least at this point in many parts of port-au-prince. >> there seems, ivan, to be disorder or chaos in the distribution of these supplies. is that what you are seeing as well? >> reporter: well, what we were looking at today and i wasn't following the aid program, what i was seeing was how haitians
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are personally dealing with this by just leaving the city. we drove north on the road out of the capital on the coast road, i wouldn't call it a flood, but there was a steady stream of people packing into buses, on to the roofs of pickup trucks. any vehicle they could find to leave the capital because the situation is untenable here. people leaving with their suitcases, with their belongings, in some cases we saw trucks with injured people in the back of them. we road along with one of these trucks full of people leaving the capital. some of them said -- all of them said their homes had been destroyed and there was no reason to stay behind. they were going to try to stay with relatives in the countryside. one man said i'm going to the countryside to try to find some food for my wife and child. now i have to find a way to feed them n. the countryside is where you can find it. it is interesting, the damage does decrease in the northern
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direction just within 20 minutes' drive of the outskirts of the city, there is sporadic damage, but i saw haitians conducting life as usual. farmers hoeing their fields. there is hope and pockets, big pockets of normal territory here that people can take refuge in. >> are you still sees bodies on the streets, corpses all over the place? >> reporter: we do see the haitians are wearing these masks all the time make shift masks or real medical masks. there is a fear they will get sick from the smell of putin putrifying bodies in the air. there has been a movement to get some of the bodies out. we went to cemeteries in the countryside and everybody told us there had been a number of
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burials out there, not the mass graves where dump trucks were dumping hundreds of bodies at a time, but in this case people who managed to take their loved ones to a more peaceful place and lay them to rest with a peaceful burial. >> two of our excellent reporters on the scene. when we come back, an amazing story to share with you. a baby born in the midst of this chaos. that story right after this. thanks for coming.
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some of the images is from "larry king live" brad parks. he has been in haiti since wednesday. brad has written a terrific firsthand account of how he got into the country, what he is seeing from within the middle of the devastation. you can brad's blog at cnn.com/larryking. he will be updating it in the coming days. i recommend it highly. let's go to miami. joining us is hanz marty. he lost five relatives in the earthquake. he is chair of the haitian american emergency relief committee. our deepest, deepest condolences to you. tell us about your relatives. >> thank you, wolf and thank you, cnn. thank you for having me. this is a very emotional moment
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for me. my relative, i lost a stepmother. look at her. she was right here in the state like three weeks ago and she left. and next i have this is half-sister and my brother on a mission in haiti. in addition i have my little nephew who is missing. it is a very sad situation for me and for everybody. >> do you have other relatives in haiti mr. mardy? >> of course. my brother in the orphanage is still in haiti. my father still in haiti. all of my family. >> how are they doing? >> very bad for now. it is a very devastated. but let me tell you in the middle of all of that there is hope -- it is bad but it could be worse because the house where my brother lived, he lived with
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about 50 to 60 children because he owned an orphanage. i could be in the worst situation. >> do you have a desire to go to haiti at this time or are you happy to be in miami? >> i'm happy to be in miami. but however, my place now today is in haiti. the only reason i'm here with you tonight is because there is no flight for me to go. i'm dying to see them. i'm dying to bring supplies to them because they need it. >> there is a large haitian american community in little haiti in miami. give us a sense how the haitians in america are dealing with this. >> well, we as a community, we're dealing with this in a very difficult way. first of all, there was no communication. okay. that was the main concern. you imagine myself as the chairman of an emergency relief committee. people come before me to ask what they should do.
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i cannot even connect with my own family. and we also tried to collect things to bring to haiti, but now we cannot do that yet because it is not the appropriate time. we have our -- one of our directors who just came back tonight and we will try our best to go to haiti to help the nation. >> hans mardy, good luck to you. we appreciate it. our deepest condolences on the last of your loved ones. make a final thought. >> let me tell you to everyone who lost someone, especially the non-haitians who have lost a life in the land of haiti. >> what a tragedy. if the government is right, the prime minister is right, 100,000 may have been killed out n this earthquake out of a population of 9 million. an amazing story of a baby
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born in haiti today. we'll share that with you when we come back.
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back to port-au-prince. joining us is vicki puff, the administrator of the salvation arm's childrens home in port awe
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prescription. today she oversaw the delivery of a baby girl. vicki, tell us what happened. >> we had three pregnant women arrive at our triage clinic on our compound in port-au-prince. she was the first one to deliver a baby and she is the first one to have a baby in our triage center since the earthquake. this was also her first child. it was exciting to have something so positive and hopeful happen in a place where we've had difficulty. >> how is the baby doing? >> the baby is fine and the mother is fine. which is an incredible feat considering that she spent the night on the concrete floor last night and delivered her baby on an eight-foot table without any pain medication. >> she was nine months pregnant at the time of the earthquake. where was she when the earthquake hit? >> she was at her home.
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she and her husband were able to get out and into the streets before they got hurt so she was not hurt at all other than the psychological and emotional traumaall, other than the psychological and emotional trauma of the event. she was at home. the house is destroyed. >> tell us about this triage station that they have established there through the work of the salvation army. >> we have a clinic for infants and children, and birth control, education, and breast-feeding education and everything on our property, right near the children's home. and so it's natural for women who are pregnant and for women with small children to come there. so we have been seeing between 40 and 60 people a day, dealing with wounds. mostly head, arms, hands and feet. pretty serious wounds, we've had a couple that have come in with
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limbs amputated by the earthquake, the event itself. and we needed to care for their wounds. >> good luck to you, and good luck to everyone working with you. at the salvation army in haiti, appreciate it. >> thank you. we're just excited to have something so hopeful happen with the birth of the baby. tomorrow we're having a church service on our property showing that the haitian people still have hope for their future, we're excited about that. >> good. i wish everybody our best. good luck. let's bring in steve mcandrew. he's with the american red cross. american red cross, we count on you guys to help in a crisis like this. how is it going, steve? >> it's going really well here. we're mounting the largest international red cross disaster movement we've had possibly ever. we are getting into full gear we
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have right here. we have 15 specialist response units, distribution units, logistics units, mobil health clinics and psycho social people out there working too. >> are you already setup or are you in the process of setting up? >> some of it was already set up even before the earthquake. we have people on the ground here in haiti, working with the haitian red cross before the earthquake. some of it was set up within hours right after this, and we're getting into the full swing. one of our field hospitals just arrived about eight hours ago, we're setting that up tomorrow. our distributions are starting tomorrow, relief supplies. our search and rescue teams came in from mexican red cross. columbian red cross. a bunch of red crosses, and those guys have been out digging people out since within hours of the disaster. so we are set up, and we're getting set up more and gearing up. we're in this for the long run, we will be relentless in finding
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every corner of this operation by the time we're finished here. >> the american red cross always is -- we appreciate what you're doing steve. good luck to you, good luck to the american men and women of the red cross, thanks so much. we'll continue our coverage, go back to port-au-prince, more news coming in after this. hose clamp pliers. you know what's complicated? shipping. shipping's complicated. not really. with priority mail flat rate boxes from the postal service shipping's easy. if it fits, it ships anywhere in the country for a low flat rate. that's not complicated. no. come on. how about... a handshake. alright. (announcer) priority mail flat rate boxes only from the postal service. a simpler way to ship. of walmart's $10 90-day generic prescriptions... ...no matter where you live. plus get free shipping on over 3,000 other prescriptions. call 1-800-2-refill for your free home delivery. save money. live better. walmart.
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elizabeth cone has a story about a baby. she's in port-au-prince. share the story with our viewers. >> reporter: rescuers rescued a baby from the rubble today. when they brought her into the hospital, they realized she had broken ribs and she would soon get pneumonia if they didn't get her out of here to a real pediatric intensive care unit. they managed to get her into an ambulance, the ambulance took her to the airport and they took her to ft. lauderdale. you get us there in time to catch the plane, we'll name the baby after you. they did. she landed in ft. lauderdale
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tonight. they brought her to jackson memorial hospital in florida, and she arrived there safely. it's an incredible story. they were convinced this baby was going to die, they saved her by bringing her to florida. >> thank you very much. unfortunately, there are a lot of unhappy stories as well. going to have a lot more on this. helmet joseph joins us right now. she had been told her cousin died during the earthquake. last night she saw a photo of her cousin alive. what was it like when you saw that? >> it was a great relief. first of all, i want to thank everybody all over the world for their love, their support, their donations. to the whole community we appreciate your help. it was such a relief. i mean, we were told that she was dead, she was buried under the debris for three days. a friend of hers contacted her mother and told us she was gone,
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until a little after midnight, i was in my room and i heard a scream downstairs. it was my mom. she said come down, i think i saw her on cnn. are you sure? i went and i rewind the dvr and i pause it, and i look at a picture of her, and it was exactly her. she was laying down. she was being fed. we're just grateful and blessed that she is alive. >> how is she doing now? >> well, she spoke to her mom earlier this morning. she told her mom that she was in a lot of pain. she broke -- both her legs are broken and she's -- she didn't think she was going to make it. she needs for us to keep praying for her. keep her in our thoughts. we were just very happy and
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blessed that she's okay. the last we heard from her was a couple hours ago, she was waiting to be transferred to a hospital in santo domingo, but she's still in a lot of pain. we're just very happy that she made it out alive. when the earthquake happened she fell into a hole with two other people. she was the only one that was rescued. the others didn't make it out alive. >> you have other relatives still in haiti? >> actually, i have another cousin of mine, he's okay. he called my aunt a couple hours after the earthquake. he's doing well. >> good luck to you talma. good luck to all your relatives and friends in haiti. good luck to all the people. >> thank you so much. keep us in your prayers. >> we will, thank you very much. larry king will be back sunday to keep you up to date on what's happening in haiti alive. larry king live sunday night. we have a big event for you monday, colin ll

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