what we can see, what 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's one of the few encouraging moments in a country in 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 today, what kind of future awaits. haiti in agony next on the special edition of ""larry king live.""

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 that larry will be here on the air sunday with the latest news from haiti. larry has a big event also planned for monday. mick jagger, seal, colin powell, ringo star, will.i.am. ryan seacrest and tia leony are some of those who have teamed up to help haiti. estimates of those dead are pegged at 100,000 as of now according to haitian officials. secretary of state clinton arrive in haiti this afternoon. and the top two diplomats of the united neighs stationed in haiti were declared dead today. the scene for us in port-au-prince. quite a day for us. carl, set the scene for us. tell our viewers what happened? >> well, what i've been looking at too is the relief operation

because, yes, you're 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, who have lost everything as a result of this earthquake. and the effort now is to get aid to them both quickly and safely -- safely why? because the united nations who are handing out a lot of the aid and the united nations peacekeepers accompanying them are fearful there could be an explosion of violence as people become hung rip and desperate and beyond that explosion of violence keeping order in food lines. it's complicated because people will not stand in line. that said after a win out today, i was a lot more hopeful. i could see that the troops were managing to keep order. the haitians themselves are keeping some semblance of order in the food lines as well. also interesting for the first time. the u.s. helicopters swooping in in the park where there were

people and survivors underneath. the helicopter swoops in ten feet above the ground and tossing that aid out. that risks running a stampede among the survivors underneath. when the helicopter let the people organize 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's a lot of food, a lot of supplies, medical equipment arriving at the airport, but it's hard to get it out there whether by car or whatever. the vehicles -- it doesn't look very orderly, at least not now. >> there are a number of log jams. yes, one is at the airport. port-au-prince is not big enough to handle that big of air traffic. one of the other log jams is what some united nations workers have told me off camera, the

lack of coordination between the u.n. and some of the institutions of the u.n. and ngos as well. they're not to criticize. all good people. they're striving to do the best they can. there's a lack of coordination. that's nothing new. i've seen the same when flooding struck in hurricanes in ghana in 2008 and 2005. i don't know why there's a lack of coordination, but there is. united nations workers are saying that. one of the warehouses i visited today, there's a problem there too. they haven't let decide from the effect of this earthquake as we know. and this warehouse w 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 all ran out. and that left some of the u.n. workers and peruvian troops to offload or to load some of this food aid in to trucks. but they had to do it all by hand? 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 to hold this aid fast. you had to all be loaded by hand. things like that as well are causing additional problems, clearing the streets. that's an additional problem. and the u.n. security forces told me today, they tried to deliver two trucks of aid to one part of the city. they had to fall back. they said there they did feel the risk of violence was great and opted to go somewhere else in the city, wolf. >> all right, carl, stand by. anderson cooper is on the phone. anderson, where are you right now? what are you seeing? unfortunately, i think we lost our connection with anderson cooper. we're going to reconnect with him. technology is obviously very, very -- very serious problem dealing with haiti right now. it's amazing that we're getting through as clearly as we are. carl penhole is still with us. carl, is it -- is it clear that

the haitian government is in charge? we know the u.s. military has effectively taken charge of the airport in port-au-prince, but is there a semblance of the haitian government right now really on top of this? >> yes, we heard comments from the president. we've seen gasoline, i've seen haitian police standing by in the streets. i've seen one or two haitian police as well. but really, you cannot say there's 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 expect to see haitian leadership there either. they seem to be absent from the scene. again, why is that? one of the reasons also seems to be -- i know from the time in ghanaieve, the haitian leaders, the regional leaders said in

some places they felt whiteout si -- white outsiders were running from the government and not letting them take responsibility for the aid effort. this is one of the structural problems, one of the traditional problems in haiti. how far the government is really in charge and how far the united nations and other aid organizations are in charge. and then how these two interact with one another, wolf. >> at a time when so many people have died and many more, we fear, could die as well. carl, thanks very much. we've established communications with anderson cooper. we'll take a quick break. we'll go to andernson right after this.

as president obama has said, we will be here today, tomorrow, and for the time ahead. >> speaking personally, i know the great resilience and strength of the haitian people. [ speaking foreign language ] >> you have been severely tested. [ speaking foreign language ] all right, the secretary of state spent part of the day today in port-au-prince over at the airport. joining us on the phone is kenneth murton, the united

states ambassador to haiti. what was accomplished, mr. ambassador, by the secretary's visit? oh. >> i think the secretary sent a strong signal of support to the haitian government, particularly to the haitian president prevall to the prime minister. the president and the prime minister have a special relationship to this country. it meant a lot that she was here. >> what do you need the most, mr. ambassador, right now? oh. >> we need just about everything. one of the most critical problems we have, frankly, is communication. telephone communication is slowly being restored. we're getting satellite phones out to other people we need to talk to quickly -- as quickly as we can. but communication has been a huge huge problem here. >> how many americans do you believe are dead? >> i -- i honestly have no -- no

idea -- no answer to that. and i wouldn't want to specul e speculate, quite frankly. >> keeping a running tally, though, i assume, right? >> we are keeping track. we're -- we're -- our concern is also to do the best we can to try to get the american citizens who are here who need to leave for medical or other reasons back to the states and back to their loved ones. >> are you familiar, mr. ambassador, with the italian hotel in port-au-prince? >> very. >> we're still, i'm told, missing americans underneath the rubble there. is it your belief that some of them may still be alive? >> it's my hope that some of them are still alive. we've had teams over there nonstop pretty much since our teams have been here. we have several teams from the u.s. who are -- who are performing search and rescue missions here. six, i believe, in total. they've been there as well as other places throughout town helping to rest haitians as

well. >> good luck to you. thank you to all of the men and women who are working so hard to help save haiti right now. appreciate your good work. >> appreciate your wishes. >> go to anderson cooper right now. where you are and what you're seeing? >> all day long, we've been at the site of a day care center where a crew from the l.a. county fire search and rescue team has 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 was -- had been heard that morning and she had been trying for four days to get somebody to pay attention. the crew immediately went there. they heard some signs of life, some tapping sounds. they sent in dogs over several hours. three dogs went in multiple times, each time those dogs did not get a positive hit, but they would occasionally hear tapping

so they continued to work. there was a lot of hope. after an hour, no ambient sound, no tapping. they sent two more dogs in. those dogs did not get hits. and the workers -- the search and rescue personnel discovered there was no one still alive inside that structure. whether that means that the early sounds they heard were through ambient noises -- that's possible. but the more likely scenario, and, of course, the sadder scenario is that whoever was in there alive when they first arrived could not hold out any longer and after four days of being inside the this they died. i talked to one member of the personnel, they take it hard. they came all the way from l.a. county. they want it as much as the child's mother who's standing

next to them to find that little girl alive. and they've now determined that there are no signs of life. the mother sadly, as we drove away because they launched the -- they got on to another site where they have found a positive indication. that's where we're going right now. the unibank site, a dog trained to detect human beings inside the rubble got a positive indication 30 minutes ago there are signs of life inside. over by the unibank building. and the crews are -- another crew from the l.a. county has been working here for several hours. the crew that i was with at the day care center to lend a hand if needed. but as we pulled out from that day care center, that mother of minusca who found him 12:30 this afternoon is still waiting, to see what happens to her daughter. she still believes maybe her daughter is alive and believes

she's in a coma and simply can't tap any longer or doesn't have the strength to tap. it's a heart breaking pain to see the mother sitting silently praying for some sort of miracle or something that will bring her daughter back to life. >> i see on the video, anderson, there are light there is that the search and rescue teams bring with them. i assume they're going to work through the night? >> well, i -- it's something you're seeing now. you're seeing video from the unibank. there's a very active search and rescue operation under way right now. you can see video earlier in the day care center. those lights have been pulled down. the operation is over. it's a tree i can't imagine situation here that search and rescue personnel. they're looking for life. they're not -- at a later stage when this becomes a recovery effort, they'll go back in to bring out bodies. so at this point, they're trying to focus on the liveling. if there's a chance that someone else is alive somewhere -- that

there's no chance at one place and move on to the next. they've gone to the unibank building. crews are working very hard. and really rely on most more than anything are these dogs. if the dog has a positive hit, then that is considered the -- for all of the high-tech audio equipment that you have as we saw over the last -- the ambient noise, your ears can be deceived. but the hearing -- the smell of the dogs -- they put a lot of faith in that. they got a positive hit here 30 minutes ago and it's giving the rescue workers hope. >> stay in close touch with you, anderson. watch what's going on in the video we've been telling the viewers that was from the first site where the lights are down and the search is suspended. hope they find something where you are right now. anderson cooper, we'll be checking that with him in 60 seconds. another incredible survivor

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and i have 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. and we spent eight hours buried there until three young guys were able to dig up to us and rescue us. >> we're seeing pictures. >> we were buried from 5:00 p.m. until 1:00 a.m. >> i -- 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. >> what were you thinking in the eight hours? were you trap? you couldn't move. what was going through your mind? >> well, at first when i heard the big noise and the shaking of the supermarket and when i felt

we were dead. we were saved by the dog food. it prevented the roof from crashing to the ground and it create add kind of a tunnel for us where we were just sitting through. and i thought, in that case, that means god doesn't want us to die today. so somebody must be coming to save us. so i told my boys to let us be calm and let us pray and wait for that rescue team that most probably would be coming and to save us. because we were not crushed the first time. >> you're the director of logistics for the catholic relief services in haiti? is that right? >> isn't that correct?. we have all of the big team

working and we want all of the help we can get to respond to the needs of the haitian people really affected by the big earthquake. if anyone was to help us, go to our website, which is www.crs.org. we need everybody's help to be able to respond to the big disaster. >> how are the 12-year-old friends doing el motionally and physically for that matter? >> physically, they're doing great because for some reason, they were really protected by god. they did not 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've been staying together since that event. so i think because we did not

panic in that cave, trauma might be bearable for them. so it's not easy for anyone. >> we're 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 more more stories to share with you. additional information. our reporters are on the scene in port-au-prince, this special "larry king live" continues after this. ♪ well, look who's here. it's ellen. hey, mayor white. how you doing? great. come on in.

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continuing our coverage of the haiti earthquake and its aftermath. this is a special "larry king live." i'm wolf blitzer reporting. go to miami reporting. two guests. artarmo rivere. he's a united nations security officer. he was rescued underneath the rubble of what had been port-au-prince. he returned to florida, reunited with his family last night, including his wife. thanks to both of you for joining us. tarmo, what was it like when the earthquake hit port-au-prince? oh. >> first of all, i want to give my respects to michael leaks who didn't make out from our

building. i've learned some news today and it was -- it happened very fast. the buildings started shaking and then all of a sudden it all collapsed down while i was trying to get out of the building. >> and we know that the -- the top united nations officials were both official ly announced dead by the u.n. security general. where are you from originally? >> from estonia. >> and maybe you were in miami during this ordeal or are you in port-au-prince with your kids? >> i 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. >> tell me what it was like when you heard your husband was in the middle of the compound at the time of port-au-prince in this earthquake?

>> it took my breath away. i had spoken to my husband 20 minute before the earthquake. so i started seeing images on the news of the devastation. my heart sank. so i meetly began to contact my family in crystal city, missouri. our family in estonia, and then reached out to support from our friends in miami. we began to pray. it was interesting because a friend of mine who just gave me the bracelet from beth le mah e he -- bethlehem. >> how long till you knew he was alive? >> it took 24 hours with uncertainty on his status. the uncertainty that families are going through now, that's the most difficult part to endure. >> were you trapped within that building?

>> yes, i was. i was very lucky. got caught in the -- in the area in the opening between the ceiling and the floor. that this concrete slab is protecting me from three sides. so the rubble didn't get to me. >> how many people -- how many people were in that u.n. compound at the time? do you have any idea? >> i have no idea. but it was still a working day. so it was a big building. >> because it was about 5 p.m. late afternoon when that happened. so people were still in their offices -- they were still working. >> yes. >> how long had you been part of that united nations team in haiti? >> about 5 1/2 years. >> 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? because it's a heart breaking situation as you can imagine. >> 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 calm and trying to work 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 problems in the street. anything like that. >> are you going to go back? >> it's early to -- right now, i'm just wanting to be with my family. get dressed, get myself checked out properly and spend time with my family. >> we wish you all the best. thank god you made it out. i know you must be happy. i'm not going to ask you but i suspect i know the answer about

whether or not you want him to go back. you don't want to tell me, it's all right. >> if i could say one thing, i could just say it's definitely a small miracle -- a huge miracle for our family -- but in total with everything that's 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. but he's our hero. >> a hero to my family. the real heroes are the people, the teammates, the colleagues that were there for me and the rescue team who got me out. >> okay. >> very grateful to them. >> go and enjoy your family and appreciate all of the good things you're blessed with. we appreciate your coming on. good luck. >> thank you. when we come back, we're

going back to port-au-prince. we have a report on the scene and what's going on right now.

back to port-au-prince. right now, jason carol is 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? >> so much jumped out at us. specifically dealing with relief and trying to get the relief to the people who need it the most. we were at a place earlier today called delmar -- we went to one place that used to be a golf course where haitian's elite used to play. now it's a massive tent city where we came across thousands of people there. many of them in need of water and food. at one point, we saw military helicopters come in, drop in relief supplies, and most relief organizers will tell you that's not the best way to distribute goods, simply because when you do that, the strong can get to

it because they run up the hill sooids or wherever the supplies are being dropped. but the weak, the elderly, the sick, those are the people who then cannot get to the supplies. so that's one of the moments that was tough to watch. but on the flip side of that, we made it out to the area called canape bear. that's in the wes person part of port-au-prince. this is an organization that was dealing with relief there called world vision. it was a lot more orderly. they handed out water. they handed out clothing and hygiene to the people there. it shows you the divisions and how they're being distributed. there seems to be disorder and chaos in the distribution of these supplies. is that what you're seeing as well? >> what we're looking at today, i wasn't following the aid

program. what i was seeing is how haitians are personally dealing with this by just leaving the city. we drove north from the capital on the coast road. i wouldn't call it a flood but a steady stream of people, wolf, packing on to the buses, on to the roofs of trucks, pickup trucks, any vehicle they can find, to just leave the capital because the situation is really untenable here. people leaving with their suitcases, with their belongings. in some cases, we saw trucks with injured people on the back of them. and we rode along with one of the trucks filled with people leaving the capital. and some of them said that -- all of them said that their homes have been destroyed and there's no reason, really, to stay behind. they were going to try to stay with relatives in the countryside. one man saying i'm going to the country side to try to find some food for my wife and child who survived the earthquake but now i've got to find a way to feed them. in the country side, that's where you can find it. the damage does decrease in the northern direction. just within 20 minutes' drive of

the outskirts of the city, there's sporadic damage, but i saw haitians conducting life as usual. even farmers hoeing their fields. so there's some hope there and there are some pockets -- big pockets -- of normal territory here that people can take refuge in. >> are you seeing bodies on the streets? corpses all over the place, ivan? >> we do see that the haitians are wearing these masks all the time, either makeshift masks or real medical masks. and i think there's a real fear among the people i've spoken with that they'll get sick from the smell of the bodies in the air. there's an effort in the last couple of days to move the bodies out of this area. we went to cemeteries in the country side and hours north of here. and everybody told us that there's a number of burials out there. not the kind of mass graves

where we heard that dump trucks were dumping hundreds of bodies at a time. but at this time, people were managing to take their loved ones to a peaceful place and lay them to rest with a proper burial. >> ivan watson and jason carroll. be careful over there. when we come back, an amazing story to share with you. a baby born in the midst of this chaos. that story after this. ( clicking ) ( laughs, click ) when you hear a click,

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some of the images you're seeing here from larry king's live own's brad parks been in haiti since thursday. we know him well. the magnitude of this tragedy has had a huge impact on him, and all of the journalists in the story. brad's written a firsthand account of how he got in to the country. what he's seeing within the middle of the devastation. you can read brad's blog at cnn.com/larry king. he'll be updating it during the coming days. i recommend it highly. go to miami right now. joining us is hans marty. he lost five relatives in the earthquake. he's chairman of the haitian american emergency relief committee. our deepest, deepest condolences to you. tell us about your relatives? >> thank you, wolf, thank you, cnn. thank you for having me. my relative number one, i lost a

step mother. look at her. and she was in the states three weeks ago. she left. next, i have you can see this is this is my sister, this is my brother on haiti. in addition, i also have my little nephew who have missed. it's a very sad situation for me and for everybody. >> do you have other relatives in haiti, mr. marty? >> of course. my brother on the orphanage is still in haiti. my father still in haiti. all my family -- all my family. >> how are they doing? >> they're bad for now. but let me tell you -- all of that, there's the hope -- it is bad. but it could be worse because the house where my brother live, i lived with for about 50 to 60

children because we are all finished. that could be in the worse situation. >> do you have a desire to go to haiti at this time. or do you happen 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 because i'm dying to see them, i'm dying to bring the support to them because they need it. >> a large haitian-american community that's called little haiti in miami. give us a sense of how the haitians in america are dealing with this? >> well, we as a community -- we deliver this in a very difficult way. first of all, there was no communication. that was the main concern. and imagine the emergency, people come before me to ask, what should i do?

and i could not 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's not the proper time. we have our -- one of our people went to haiti, he just came back tonight. and we'll try all of our best to go to haiti to help the nation. >> hans marty. good luck to you. appreciate it. deepest condolences on the loss of your loved ones. make a final thought. >> let me tell you also to everyone who lost someone, especially the nonhaitians who lost the life in haiti. >> what a tragedy when you think about it. if the government is right, the prime minister of haiti is right, 100,000 people may have been killed in this earthquake out of a population of 9 million in haiti. appreciate it very much, mr. marty. good luck. amazing story of a story in

haiti with you. we'll share that when we come back.

. welcome back to port-au-prince right now. joining us right now is the administrator of the salvation army's children's home in port-au-prince. earlier today, she oversaw the

delivery of a baby girl. vicki, tell us what happened? >> we had three pregnant women arrive at our tri-i can't imagine clinic at our compound in port-au-prince. she was the first one to deliver a baby. she's the first one to have a baby at our tri-i can't imagine center since the earthquake. this was also her first child. this is great to have something positive and hopeful happen where we've had a lot of difficulty in the last few days. >> beautiful little girl. how's the baby doing? >> the baby is fine, the mother is fine. which is an incredible feat considering she spent the night on a concrete floor and delivered the baby without any pain medication. >> she was nine months pregnant at the time of the earthquake. where was she when the earthquake hit? >> oh she was at her home. but she and her husband were able to get out and in to the

streets before they got hurt. so she was not hurt at all other than the psychological and emotional trauma of the event. but she was at home. but the house is destroyed. >> tell us about the tri-i can't imagine station that you have established there through the -- through the work of the salvation army? >> we have a clinic for infants and children and birth control education and breastfeeding education on our property here near the children's home. it's natural for women who are pregnant and women with small children to come there. we have been seeing between 40 and 60 people a day dealing with wounds, hopefully of head, arms, hands, and feet. some pretty serious wounds. we've had a couple that have come in with limbs amputated by -- by the earthquake, the

event itself. we needed to care for their wounds there. >> good luck to you. good luck to everyone working with you at the salvation army in haiti. appreciate it. >> thank you. we're excited to have something so hopeful happen with the birth of the baby. and tomorrow we're having a church service on our property showing that the haitian people still have hope for their future and we're excited about that. >> good. i wish everybody our best. thank you. good luck. let's bring in steve mcandrew, a disaster relief specialist with the american red cross. american red cross. we count on you guys to hell notary public a crisis like this. how's it going, steve? >> hi, wolf? it's going really well here. we are now mounting the largest international red cross movement we've had possibly ever. we're getting in to full gear right here. we have 15 specialist response units, including field hospitals, water treatment

units, distribution units, logistics units, mobile health clinics, and psychosocial people out there working too. >> are you set up or are you in the process of setting up? >> some of it was set up even before the earthquake. we had people on the ground here in haiti working with the haitian red cross even before the earthquake. some of it was set up within hours right after and now we're getting to the full swing. so one of our field hospitals just arrived about eight hours ago. we're setting that up tomorrow. our distributions are starting tomorrow of relief supplies. the search and rescue teams came in from the mexican red cross, colombian red cross. a lot of red crosses and those people have been digging people out within hours of the disaster. so we are set up and we're getting set up more and we're gearing up. we're in this for the long rupp. we will be relentless in finding 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 all of the men and women on the american red cross. thanks so much. we'll continue our coverage. go back to port-au-prince, more go back to port-au-prince, more news coming in after this. eenu to stay well this new year.

elizabeth cohen an amazing story about a baby in port-au-prince. elizabeth, share the story with our viewers. >> i've never seen doctors jump for joy but i did today. the doctors rescued a baby today. a 2-month-old baby brought in alive. they brought her to the hospital, they realized she had broken ribs and would soon get pneumonia if they didn't get her out of here. they managed to get her to an ambulance. the ambulance took her to the airport. and the airport brought her to ft. lauderdale, miami. i'll tell you, once they got to the ambulance, we said to the driver, we've got to get to the airport quickly. get her there in time to catch the plane, we'll name the baby after you. she landed in ft. lauderdale tonight.

they brought her to jackson memorial hospital in florida and she arrived there safely. it really is an incredible story. they were convinced that this baby was going to die. but they saved her by bringing her to florida. wolf? >> an amazing story. thank you very much. unfortunately, there are a lot of unhappy stories as well. elizabeth is going to have a lot more on this. t talma joseph is joining us. i had been told her cousin die in the earthquake. she saw a photo of her cousin alive. what was that like when you saw them? >> it was a great relief. first of all, i want to thank everybody for their love, support, donation to the haitian community. we appreciate your help. it was such a relief. 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 that she was gone until a little

bit after midnight. i was in my room and i heard a scream downstairs and it was my mom. she was like, talma, talma, come down. i think i saw zuzu, i saw her on cnn. i was like, are you sure? and i went and i -- i rewind the dvr and i pause it and look at the picture of her and it was exactly her. she was down with the blanket on her head and she was being fed.. >> she told my mom she was in a lot of pain. both her legs are broken and she's -- she didn't think she was going to make it. she needs us to keep praying for her, just keep her -- keep her in our thoughts. wow, it feels just very happy and blessed she's okay.

the last we heard from her is a couple of hours ago. she was waiting to be transferred to a hospital. and she's still in a lot of pain which is very happy she made it out alive. because 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 at all. >> other relatives in haiti? >> i have another cousin of mine. he's okay. he called my aunt a couple of hours after the earthquake. he's doing well. >> good luck to you,tal ma. good luck to all of your relatives and friends in haiti. good luck to all of the people och. >> thank you, cnn, everybody. keep us in your prayers. larry king will be back sunday to get you up to date on what's happening in haiti. "larry king live" sunday night. we have a big event for you on