tv Larry King Live CNN January 25, 2010 12:00am-1:00am EST
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live." >> larry: haiti is the poorest country in the country and yet somehow, some way, people manage to survive. there are amazing stories hard to forget. >> wednesday morning we went out and trying to rescue under the rubble and they had been working for all of that morning try to free themselves. >> she is crying out because two of her feet are pinned. >> there was a handful of guys just working under the hot sun.
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they had been digging through the rubble with their hands and then the miracle of having her pulled out alive. they figured out a way to move some things and chip away at some things suddenly coming free and even amidst this tragedy in the area they saved this dwirl's life. the other moment i won't forget
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could feel his blood on my back. and it was warm. and i set him down and it was totally stunned and they had no idea of where he was or what he was doing. he was clearly just with a head wound and i sort of -- i didn't know what to do. i hadn't done anything like this before. i looked around and there was no one around and i picked him up again and put him over this barricade that someone had built and someone else took him and gave him a towel for his head and someone carried him away from the crowd and i never saw him again. i didn't know who he was or what his name was or what happened to
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him. you see people wheeling through the street and somebody was wheeling a coffin through the streets. at the cemetery they were opening up old cribs and there was a mounld, a pile of humans, a pile of remains of people. they were brought to the cemetery, literally piled into pounds, about 20 or so people here. and then i've been to a lot of places and i've never seen places like that and people being opened up and and i've
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those words often become cliches, but they are all true here. we were driving down a street and came upon a woman who just was sitting there singing and there were several of her family members and friends around and they had been sleeping, some of them on that corner. they were just singing a song, a religious song. she started dancing. it was just a brief little moment. one thing was happening on one street. and they don't know what the next day is going to bring. there is faith and there is strength and there is hope. and you see that.
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i'm outside of the pediatric hospital. take a look inside. >> death and disease are not new to the people of haiti but the earthquake was a disaster that no one, no matter what their circumstance, was prepared to deal with in any way. >> i remember when we landed in port-au-prince, we didn't see the devastation initially. we were driving along and then it was like the entire neighborhood was flattened, down r rubble in the streets, people very stunned by what had happened. and i think it was somebody in the car that said, look over
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there. and i couldn't process what i was seeing, at least simultaneously. >> when it's over here, it gets worse than you can possibly imagine. >> when we came out of that building, it was really hard to imagine all of these dead bodies in the streets. >> one of the images that i don't think i want to try and remember but can't forget either is this guy carrying two babies, really walking outside and carrying them in his arm and just back and forth and taking these bodies ands to tossing them into a bulldozer and the
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bulldozer lifted up and dumped into a dumptruck. just like that, like garbage these bodies were being treated. i don't know if they'd be able to find that loved one. these people were sent to the ground and they just vanished. they just vanished off the face of the planet. one night we started to recover and these doctors were performing medicine and the u.n.
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trucks came in and they left, leaving my crew, myself, to basically be frustrated, be confused by what had happened, and then to stay and take care of these patients. >> they have nowhere to go. >> all of the patients did well that night and it was was one of the worst frustrating things that we've seen. my fate was completely trashed and then restored by the hard work of my crew and the people who decided to help out. >> some time it can help you and
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keep you warm and. >> the fact that there is so much aid in the city, so many supplies and medical supplies, things that can help people right now but those things are stuck at the airport. they are not getting to people who need it the most. we decided to actually go to the airport and look and see what they were and get them out. >> formula. >> can help us. and pain medication and things that can help people right now.
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>> lots of pain medications and all sorts of things. >> i was reminded what people have told me in situations like this. you've got to put medicine in front of guns. you've got to make sure you take care of people. they are not likely to be as desperate and security concerns will go down as well. you are walking to a hospital with a bag of supplies and showing that it can be done and driving along the road and seeing a water station made up. and hundredses of people lined up to get that water. here's what i noticed. there was no pushing, no
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shoving, no armed guards. these people needed one of the basic commodities that the human body craves and they were perfectly -- they were just civil to one another. they were respectful to one another. i think in many ways they were reflective that the haitian spirit will carry this spirit forward. host: could switching to geico really save you 15% or more on car insurance? host: did the waltons take way too long to say goodnight? mom: g'night john boy. g'night mary ellen. mary ellen: g'night mama. g'night erin. elizabeth: g'night john boy. jim bob: g'night grandpa. elizabeth: g'night ben. m bob:'night. elizabeth: g'night jim bob. jim bob: g'night everybody, grandpa: g'night everybody. @y jim bob: g'night daddy. vo: geico. 15 minutes could save you 15% or more.
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carl? >> indeed, larry. we were driving just beyond the airport this day and we drove by and saw and we heard with a little attention. we live across. and at that point we saw two haitian police officers holding two detained young men and at that point as we spotted them, more shots rank out and we saw those police officers shoot their young detainees at point blank rank in the process of stopping the car, we ran out to see what was happening. and on the ground one of these men was gasping his last bretts. there was another man badly wounded and the police evidently thought that they had been stealing bags of rice. the wounded men denied it and the witnesses nearby said, no such thing had occurred larry.
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>>. >> memories from haiti, from this disaster, so many sights and sounds. it's over load. with impressions, this is, for example, people leaving the capital and they lost everything here. they lost their homes and lost family and they lost friends and they are heading out into the countryside. >> if you take a look, what does that mean for this man that all he has in the world is carrying in his hands. a paper bag from a phone company, a dora the explorer canvas bag and another blue bag held together by a piece of packing tape. but each of these people is uncertain and our problem is, we have memories and it's just how
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this is a baby and they are hoping that she will make it to miami. they fear that she may not be able to withstand this flight. >> of all of the stories about the earthquake victim, the most poignant may be about haiti's children. >> this is an orphanage, the house of god's children. >> did you take my pen? >> i think one of the hardest things to be an eyewitness to is the orphans and to really understand the severe orphan issue in this country. >> when you saw 25 babies in the back of a truck laid out, when we opened and looked through the
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door, i gasped. it was so shocking. it's so hard to be a mother of four children and taken to the hospital and they are not going because they can barely get them formula. that's been really hard. and yet at the same time, someone said to me, you know, the story of the boy in the star fish. a lot of star fish. you know, is it worthless to try to help one at a time? and the answer is, it's not. if you can help in any way, then helping one person or 100 people or 1,000 people is a good start. but an orphan in this country, they are mothers, frankly, and the fathers and the country and where do you stop? that part is really hard. soledad, what is the latest from there? >> this is the back of the truck. 25 babies are there.
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it's become a makeshift nursery. plus other young children. and they are feeding them powdered milk, but infants can't drink milk. they have to drink formula. but they've run out of formula. so they are feeding the babies milk, so they get dehydrated and that gives them diarrhea. it's really, really critical. if you think of something to donate, formula is a good and important thing to get to everybody. and a big thank you for the folks who have been helping out with all their information and advice tonight. hundreds of people's lives were impacted by this earthquake and on my second day in haiti, i met an 11-year-old girl who i will never forget. >> reporter: she was the pride
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of her family. an 11-year-old girl who sang in the choir at church and at school. she hoped to study law one day like the aunt that raised her. the dreams were shattered last tuesday, on the day that the earth shook port-au-prince. >> she was terrified and in a great deal of pain. later we learned that she finally escaped after being trapped 48 hours but she did not survive the terrible injuries, in part, because there were not enough doctors to treat her. >> friday night relatives held a funeral in a little church and then buried her in this cemetery. her mother is visiting for the very first time.
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her uncle says the 11-year-old displayed strength throughout the ordeal. before she died she said she was willing to have her crushed leg amputated. >> what did she say? >> she said to me, thank you, god. because you saved my life. i lose my feet, i always have a life. i got some tears in my eyes so i -- it's hard to explain. >> it's all right. >> i will always wonder why this girl had to suffer so much before she died. and i will always ask myself whether it was something more that we could have done to help her live. >> it's not easy.
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neighborhood, port-au-prince, considers them the worse, bel-air. >> as we walk the streets of bel-air, one of the things you notice is people have white substance above their upper lip. it's toothpaste. what the people are doing is the rumor has spread through the community if you put toothpaste there t. will not only protect you from the smell, the growing smells here in the area, but also protect you from the dangerous substances in the air as well. >> today there are no bandits. we are people dying. >> when i think about my time here, you obviously think about
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all of the horrible images that you have seen while being here but what i always try to do is i look for that one bright spot and for me, that came from the form of an e-mail, from before i even left, he sent me an e-mail that basically said, i'm trying to find my father. i don't know if he's alive or dead. i'm going to send you his picture and his address. if you have any time at all, please look for him and please know that he's okay. >> he tried everything but communications were down. the u.s. embassy is out of reach. >> it was a sense of hopelessness for the person that you love. i didn't know what to do. >> so he took a chance and sent an e-mail to cnn asking for help. >> and i took that information and carried it around with me. i still have the e-mail and this picture right here on my blackberry and at one moment.
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>> it's so good to see you there. are a lot of people looking for you back in the united states. yufr son. >> how are you? >> i'm all right. >> yes? >> i'm all right. >> this is how we found you. this is picture. this is you. >> reporter: word got out that we were looking for him and the minute he found us, he threw his arms around me and he said, thank you for finding me. i got my producer and we got this man on the phone with his son and it was just -- for us it
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was a beautiful moment and i think it was obviously a very happy moment for them. >> okay. i'm fine. everything will be okay, okay? >> what was it like to finally hear your son's voice? what was that like for you? >> nice? >> very nice. very nice. and a grateful and relieved son. >> i speak to him now again and it's hard to explain the emotions. i was extremely happy. >> and out of all of this mistery and destruction, to be able to do that for this one family, i think for me was my most memorable moment.
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>> in some cases, piles of bodies, passing the bodies by, looking sad for lauren and watching small children with parents smiling as they cross the bodies and trying to imagine the horror that the families were going through, not possibly understanding the hour hour that they were going through there's an immense amount of traffic because people trying to pick up supplies and blockades in the roads. this particular blockade. >> >> were 80 men and women who lived here. six were killed in the earthquake.
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the other four survived. not watching how they survive. it's very difficult. >> what will also say in my mind is a nursing home we visited. the nursing home is destroyed. six residents were killed. 64 survived. they are living without any food or water with one doctor who showed up a week later with almost no equipment. and many of them are very ill. many of them have did i dementia. we saw them in diapers that were in change. and many without pants on. and it was such a pitful situation. there are absolutely no plans whatsoever for these people. 64 oerld people who live in nursing homes, who were indid i jent to begin with and now live on soiled mattresses with bugs all over them with no plans whatsoever for their welfare. it's something i'll never
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learn the extent of the devastation. >> the people are helpinging us. >> it's easy to see how haitians might have wondered if anyone heard their cry, if anyone was going to help them. well, the world listened and responded. >> when we tag along with the world food program and we hand out the high energy biscuits and high purification tablets and get down to the area where they are going to hand out all of the stuff and for a while it was orderly, people just starting pushing and shoving and a lot of
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people push out of their way and they are trying to get up to where the food is. and after that they were reaching in and just a few people, the majority of people were fine. but just a few people got completely out of hand and what i noticed was the strong taking from the weak and that people would snap something out of the hands of someone that was weaker. that women and small children were getting pushed totd back and were not getting anything. it was very, very frustrating. i think i credit it in one way to the u.n. guards. perhaps they could have done more to stop the crowd but they didn't overreact. it was just pushing. it was taking but there was no real violence.
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and i think it would have been very easy for them to come in and start beating on people and start firing shots. and a few people caused the crowd to get out of hand. >> the other thing that really stood out to me is when we were driving back from the store, we were doing a store and delivering aid and all of a sudden the paramedic came running out in front of us and flagging us down and saying, stop, stop. we need your truck, we need your truck. suddenly they had just pulled a 23-year-old woman a. college student out of the rubble and they only had one truck. the truck had to look for other survivors and he needed our
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flatbed pickup truck. so it was like, of course, of course. >> and the paramedic is in the flatbed truck. he's got one hand on the iv and another checking the pulse. he's trying to comfort her. and it was just an amazing thing to watch him work. trying to figure out what was wrong and it was clearly short term. she's laying there on the sidewalk and we think it's over. they were like, no, we need your truck again. she needs to go to a proper
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hospital. we don't have the facilities here to really treat her. so we load her back in the pickup. it was amazing to see them work. standing up in the back of this pickup. and i just think nothing was better when we pulled up back at that last hospital and it's nighttime now and they take her in and her name is maxi and she was conscious and talking and she said, she said she was catholic. she said, she's prayed every day. we barely understand, six days, no food, no water.
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