every new hero we meet is a new beginning for haiti. we're going to keep telling their stories. for all of us here and all the people of cnn heroes back home, thanks for watching. >> larry: two weeks after the earthquake, the struggle continues. thousands have lost limbs to injuries. we have an urgent plea for help. >> most importantly at the moment are crutches to give someone the freedom and the ability and to take the pressure off the careers around them. >> larry: and the children left without parent ors families. new fears in haiti that they're the targets of child trafficking. but there is also hope. haitian adoptees find their way to loving parents and new homes in the united states.

stories of survival. an american pulled from the rubble days after the quake. how did he survive? plus musical superstars mary j. blige and andrea bocelli and a big announcement on what they're doing to help haiti's victims. it's all next on "larry king live." thanks for joining us. it's been more than two weeks since the devastating earthquake in haiti. as some victims begin to slowly rebuild their lives from scratch, others are still not getting basics, food, water, a roof over their heads, medical assistance for the almost 200,000 injured. still hard to come by. joining us from port-au-prince, dr. sanjay gupta, cnn chief medical koern and a practicing neurosurgeon. what's the latest on the medical situation? in the early days you painted a desperate scene. what's it like now?

>> i think in many ways it has gotten better. it's all relative, as you know, larry. a couple of things have improved. we have more personnel, surgeons, actually, on the ground, being able to take care of patients. you're looking inside one of the tents here. a lot of post operative patients, patients who have had operations including amputations. they're in tents like this. they're actually inside a hospital. but this ends up being a good location to try to take care of these patients. lots of doctors. still short of nurses, still short of physical therapists which will be necessary. there's still work to be done. to your point, it's a lot better than it was a few days ago. it looks like it will be even better a few days from now. >> larry: heather mill, an amputee herself, will be with us. the amputations of the crush injuries have become the

signature injury of this disaster. have we any sense how many amputations have taken place? >> well, it's hard to know. and we've tried to figure out that number ourselves. you know, there are so many various locations like this set up around the city. and really around the country. a lot of these places are performing amputations because someone has a crush injury and taking the arm or leg ends up being necessary. they estimate it could be up to 200,000 am putations, larry. think about that number for a second. that's staggering. 200,000 amputations necessary possibly as a result of this earthquake. they think 95% of people who have crush injuries, a lot of the patients in the tent behind me 95% would need an amputation. that's the reality of haiti. >> larry: joining us from london, heather mills. a charity activist. united nations good will ambassador. heather is working with physicians for peace.

she's urging people to donate their old prosthetics to the people of haiti. she is, as you well know, herself an amputee having lost part of her left leg in a 1993 road accident. staying with us in port-au-prince is dr. sanjay gupta, our chief medical correspondent. heather, you are working with physicians for peace. you want mobility supplies. can people actually donate their old prosthetics and it will work elsewhere? >> we started this program, larry, in '94 after i lost my leg, i was working in the war in the former yugoslavia. we had to find a quick way of getting limbs to the amputees. we fitted 27,000 people with the same system. and then in the indian earthquake, when we set up the tents, we went with the lion's club charity there. i always like to not reinvent the wheel and find out exactly which agencies, which clinicians have been working on the ground

in the countries rather than just go in and bombard and reinvent what people are doing. physicians for peace have been on the ground for several years. they had a great clinic for rehabilitation and prosthetic care that has been destroyed. what i'm trying to do is appeal to people to go to to all the hangar clinics, and most amputees will know what that mean, and contact physicians for peace and take back any limbs that are not used and we can reuse the components. i used to get the prisoners in england to take them apart and put them into come partmental boxes. most importantly at the moment are crutches. to give someone the freedom and ability and take the pressure off the carers around them, to get around, start getting mobile before atrophy sets in. >> larry: how do you know where to send them? what do you do with the limb? if you're watching now and you want to donate, where do you send it? >> you should contact physicians for peace.org. that's physiciansforpeace.org. and you can take it back to your

local clinic that you got it from in the first place and ask them to help locate the local hangar company who have offered to collect them all, store them for us. and what i'd like to do is get as many crutches as possible first because, while there's infection, we can't fit limbs. i've collected a number of pomade, which is a temporary sponge blowup leg because the sooner you can create circulation in the early days of healing, the sooner it will start to work and minimize infection. >> larry: sanjay, is the health care infrastructure in haiti ready to handle an influx like this? say, reaction to this program tonight, can they handle hundreds of crutches and wheelchairs and prosthetic limbs coming in at once? >> well, you know, that's a good question. they're certainly going to need that. whether now exactly is the right time, i think, as heather probably knows having done this sort of work.

they're still sort of in the acute phase of things. amputations are still being performed, larry. it takes some time after an amputation is performed. the wound has to heal, the swelling has to go down. eventually the prosthetic gets fit, but that could be a few weeks from now still. there are several different organizations which have been performing these amputations. there have been so many of them, larry. we're standing outside a swiss tent right now. the partners of help organization, mt. sinai in new york that you're familiar with, larry. there are so many organizations doing this. it is going to be a little time before we're in that phase that's coming, no doubt. >> larry: heather, i know you did this historically on our show once. i would appreciate it if you did it again. would you show us your limb so that people around the world can get an idea of what -- how they'll be helping. >> this is actually the kind of limb that we need to find to

donate, but lime sanjay said, i'm fully aware that they're not going to need the limbs for weeks. but it takes weeks to coordinate and it takes weeks for people to donate. it takes weeks to get them pablged an shipped as you saw when disasters happened before they got food, before they got things. it's thinking three or four steps ahead. it will be very soon they will need crutches most importantly. this is an artificial leg typical. this is a socket on my leg which has a screw attachment. and what we do is you have an attachment in here and the leg goes on and pops in and it actually screws in. that is the attachment we need to have to make it simple for people to be able to get about so it doesn't get hot. we need to collect as many as possible. it takes weeks to take this limb apart and find the components

and put them boxes. what we don't want is when they are able and ready to have a limb fitted, that we're still messing about and struggling to do this. this is why i work with companies that are already doing it down there. so you are not just going in blindfolded. you are working with people who have been there for several years as physicians for peace have. >> larry: if you want more information go to physiciansforpeace.org. we'll take a break. an american survivor will join us next to talk about her road to recovery. said she's lucky to be alive even though she lost part of her leg. i'm congested right now in this area.

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>> larry: gianting us now an american who survived the earthquake, but her crushed right leg had to be amputated below the knee after she was evacuated back to the united states. she's at jackson memorial hospital in miami. how are you doing, christa? >> i'm doing great. >> larry: now you're obviously grateful. you have access to major medical care. how long before you'll get a prosthetic? >> it will still be a couple weeks for me. last friday the surgeons were finally able to close up the wound on my leg. so now the skin needs to heal, and the swelling needs to go down, an then i'll be able to be fitted for a prosthetic.

>> larry: have you been able to see what heather just showed us? >> no, i wasn't. >> larry: okay. well, it looked pretty simple. heather, what advice would you have for christa? >> just she obviously looks quite positive. i can see in her face that she's gone through a very difficult time, but i'm sure she's got a lot of love and support of her family and friends around her. the most important thing is to take care of your health and get the best kind of prosthetic that you can in america. the most important thing is not cosmetic immediately because you're residual limb will shrink as time goes on, as i'm sure you've been told. i have a forum of 6,000 amputees that all talk to each other that probably live in an area near you. if you go to heathermills.org you can talk to many people and learn things. if you've got a blister or bleeding later, you don't need to be off your limb. you can use blister plasters,

lots of little tips that help go forward. one of the quickest ways that i healed was to go on to help other people. it's like a natural adrenaline feeling that you are connecting with other people. so if you get in touch with us when you're feeling ready, then you can go on and help a lot of the victims from haiti yourself if you feel that you want to do something like that. but you obviously and hopefully are going to get the best care. we'll communicate. >> larry: you'll be in touch. it's heathermills.org? heather, is that it? >> that's it. heathermills.org. >> larry: sanjay, how is haiti going to be able to handle all of these amputees? i know your specialty is brain surgery, but you know the body pretty well. it's going to be an enormous task, isn't it, assuming they get a lot of help coming in? >> yeah, there's no question, larry, it's going to be an enormous task.

heather should know that the types of patients that this is going to help -- we met a 7-year-old boy not that long ago, marie-claude is his name. he's 7 years old. this house literally fell on his leg. he required an amputation. he's back there with his mother. he had four other siblings and his father that all perished in the home. he needs a leg. if he doesn't have a leg, he can't get around. if he can't get around port-au-prince, it's hard to get around in wheelchairs so you need to be able to walk. with this amputation he needs help even with the prosthetic device. how is port-au-prince going to be able to deal with this? it's going to be very, very tough. the infrastructure is going to change completely. this is going to be a country that's known for amputations. and they didn't do a good job, frankly, before all this taking care of people with different disabilities. this will need a lot of focus with the help of heather and a lot of other people. >> larry: heather, we salute you again.

we'll be calling on you again. it's physiciansforpeace.org. >> that's it. please get in touch and help us. anything medical would be great. also one last thing, larry, before you go. >> larry: quickly. >> one last thing before you go. any pros thetists who want to volunteer, please contact physiciansforpeace.org. we do a two-week rota system that won't take you away from your own practice. >> larry: thank you. christa, we'll keep in touch with you on your process and check back, of course, with dr. gupta. the wilkins family was in the process of adopting a haitian boy when the earthquake hit. we told you their story last week. we have a happy report for you tonight. little samuel is in the united states flown in from haiti with 80 other orphans. he's right here. ♪ ♪ ♪

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did i wake you up? >> there he is. sleepy face. we made it to the airport. they're coming home. here they come. ready or not. ♪ >> larry: this is a happy night for us around "larry king live" here at cnn. joining us are joe and jill wilkins. they were in the process of finalizing their adoption of little samuel when the earthquake struck. joe traveled to haiti last week to help bring their son and other children from god's little angels orphanage home to the united states. joe, jill, and samuel are here with us now. joining us in a while, jason and jamie stanley. they were the adopting parents of 6-year-old twins from haiti when the earthquake hit. the twins jean-dani and denise arrived in the united states on friday with wilkins' son samuel.

the stanleys' daughters ali and whitney are also there with the family. first we'll concentrate here on the wilkins. what's it like, joe, to finally have him home? >> it's wonderful to have him here. we've been looking so forward to this for the past several months and over a year now. and being a dad for three days, everything is new and -- >> larry: first child? >> and exciting. first child, yes. >> larry: how did he handle the flight? >> from haiti he slept the whole flight, and -- so that was nice. of course, i had two other kids next to me, so i was kind of -- they were a little more -- >> larry: you had 80 on the plane altogether? >> we had 81 on the plane. >> larry: they dispersed in miami? >> we went through immigration for 7 1/2 hours while they did the paperwork. that was a time i'll never forget. >> larry: when can he become a citizen? >> well, you know, larry, that's one mountain we have ahead of us.

i think a lot of us were at the legalization point where we had -- he had our last name, since that time since they had the humanitarian parole, we've lost that. we have to start over. we don't know what it entails yet. we haven't had a lot of information shared. we're just praying that the government does the right thing and possibly grants these kids u.s. citizenship. i think they've been through so much already. and starting over it just seems like way too much of a mountain in front of us. >> larry: samuel is 20 months? >> yes, 20 months. >> larry: what happened to his parents? >> his parents were killed in a natural disaster in 2008 when he was only about 4 months old. >> larry: the hurricane? >> i believe so. >> larry: he's been at the orphanage ever since? >> he came in in november 2008 to the orphanage and we were matched up in december of 2008. >> larry: do they give you a lot of information about his health? >> definitely. at least when he was at the orphanage, we got monthly updates on his size, his height, his weight.

if there are any illnesses with him. >> larry: do you expect a long battle on citizenship? >> i pray not, larry. because, obviously, we've been at this since our adoption process since 2007. we just need it to be over. we're so tired. we need him to be with us for good and not worry about it. >> larry: you stay here. let's go to des moines, iowa. jason and jamie stanley are in the process of finalizing an adoption from the same agency. how are the kids doing, jason? >> they're doing very well, larry. thanks for asking. you may notice, we're down one daughter. everything was a little overwhelming for us. whitney is off the screen right now, but here in person. >> larry: and ali is there, right? >> ali's right here, that's right. and jean-dani and denise. they're doing very well. it was a little overwhelming for them, but they're really fitting into the family well. we got a new puppy for christmas and that seems to be breaking the ice. denise is really mothering her and having a great time with her. >> larry: do they have the same citizenship issue as the wilkins? >> they do, yes.

>> larry: so you think you're going to have a battle on your hands? >> we might. we haven't had an opportunity to talk with our social worker yet, but we're looking to do that hopefully here this week. so we can understand what we need to do and whether we can get an adoption attorney involved. we've come three years and we won't stop now. >> larry: will the state of iowa be involved? >> most likely. that's our understanding, yes. unless there's some other change that we don't know about that we're hoping will happen. as jill mentioned, we're hoping there's an opportunity for them to not make all the families go through this, but we will do what we need to do because they're our kids. >> larry: more with our new families. is this joyous or not? outdoors for your indoor cat.se fueling an exhilarating adventure... each entree is bursting with high-quality protein... plus wholesome grain and garden greens. specially formulated to promote hairball control... and healthy weight. friskies indoor wet cat food.

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saw me. i said his name. and he ran to me and hugged me stronger than i thought a 6-year-old could hug. then denise looked at me with a shy kind of a smile and gave me a hug. she was a little sick, so her emotions were maybe a little tempered, but they are happy. >> larry: subdued. >> they were happy. >> larry: joe and jill, is the united states government getting involved in your hopeful matter to expedite things? >> we heard from a senator today through e-mail that said they were going to check on it. they had so many e-mails and they were behind on so many issues. we need to say this is priority, and we're hoping that they stay involved and really do help us out. >> larry: we hope so, too. the same with you jason? do you expect the government to get involved? >> we hope so. we hope so. we don't really know. we haven't heard anything yet. we're waiting for that to be worked out, but we know there's other things on their minds as well with orphans that have just been created in haiti. we want them to be taken care of, too.

the orphanage expects to be full again in two weeks tops. with the adoption status still up in the air down there, they need support. who knows how long those kids are going to be there. >> larry: good luck to all of you. we'll stay on top of this story and keep in constant touch. >> great. thank you. >> larry: great meeting the little boys there and the boy and girl -- rather, the twins in des moines and here in los angeles, to finally see samuel. say l.a. >> l.a. come on. >> larry: come on. he's been saying l.a. >> l.a. >> la? >> larry: good enough. >> l.a. >> larry: la. ivan watson covered this story from the beginning. he's in port-au-prince with the latest. i understand you have the story of a man, construction worker. what's that about, ivan? >> reporter: yeah. he was a realtor, larry, and basically, i found the guy. he was starting to try to take apart what's left of his house and try to salvage a few things. i followed him home to where

he's now living. this guy had a three-story house. he was renting out the bottom floors to help pay for his college kids' tuition. now he's living in a sprawling refugee camp in a makeshift tent. it's filthy. he's embarrassed about it. his whole family, they survived, thank god. but they're sleeping on the ground in this filthy place. even if he gets some food from the u.s. military or from the aid organizations, this guy's dignity right now is crushed. he's accustomed to working and struggling to make a good life for his kids and his family. now they're sleeping under a sheet. it's just really, really tough to see this guy in this awful position. >> larry: ivan, wouldn't construction workers be in demand in haiti now? >> reporter: this man was actually a real estate agent, and i think he was making a lot of money renting out the ground floor of his building as --

renting it out, basically, to help pay for his family. that's gone now. i asked him, you know, everybody is alive and everybody is okay, and yes, everybody is okay, but now what? what does this guy do now? what do hundreds of thousands of other people like him do? getting a bag of rice, it's wonderful and it will keep them alive for a week maybe, for four days. but imagine how much they've lost. i asked his daughter does it make you sad living here? i mean, the tent was like a sauna. she kind of said, very, very, very. she just stared off into the distance and tried not to cry. it's a 17-year-old girl. >> larry: that was cnn's ivan watson. reporting from port-au-prince. next fear over the safety of haiti's orphans. are they in danger of being bought and sold and what can be done to prevent it? we have ev. a car that can help awaken its driver if he begins to doze. keep him in his lane if he starts to wander. even stop itself... if he becomes distracted. if you want to see the future of the automobile, look at where the e-class is...today.

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>> larry: joining us now to talk about the risk of child trafficking and abduction in haiti after the earthquake, lisa louman at save the children. also maggie boyer, communications director for world vision in haiti and cnn's own anderson cooper. lisa, how worried are we about child trafficking in this tragedy?

>> well, larry, we were worried before and we are worried now. i will say there are a lot of stories out there, a lot of rumor, and a number of organizations, unicef, save the world, world vision, are trying to follow them up. to date, we haven't found evidence that any of these stories are true. but it doesn't mean that children aren't at risk. all humanitarian actors remain vigilant. >> larry: maggie, it is a danger isn't it, since so many children are scattered around. we don't know whether their parents are living or dead. they're certainly open to this, aren't they? >> that is correct, larry. before the quake, there were about 380,000 children labeled as orphans in haiti. you can imagine that number has increased since the quake. world vision is mindful of that number and working very hard to keep track of those children and ensure their well-being. >> larry: maggie is coming to us via that skype gadget.

which is amazing how it works. anderson cooper have you seen evidence of this at all in your reporting? >> we've looked into it. we were given a heads up on two allegations. two stories that were floating around. unicef turned us on to. we did not get evidence of trafficking in those two incidents. we talked to unicef and save the children who say they are clearly on the lookout. and what's really important, larry, is that now a lot of these organizations really want to start tracking, trying to get their hands around how many orphans there really are. who really is an orphan, who may have family members that they're separated from that want to take care of them. we saw this in the wake of the sue nam ne sri lanka. we investigated those. it was hard to find actual evidence of it. haiti does have a history of not just child trafficking internationally or going to a dominican republic but also

internally. kids are sold, often, or given to other families living in the city. those kids will grow up as domestic servants working for a family. that's something that's a form of trafficking which happens right here in haiti and happened long before the earthquake. >> lisa, how does trafficking work? give us the modus operandi. what happens? >> it's dilt to say, obviously, because it's a clandestine form of activity. but often traffickers are people who are known in communities. they develop relationships. often the kinds of trafficking that happened in places like haiti, the restavec, in french, stay with, phenomenon, is something that happens when a family feeling it can't care for their children adequately and they send them to what they presume to be a wealthier family in the area to provide domestic service in exchange for food and shelter and clothes and possibly an education. whapts often, however, is that

the terms of the child's living there are not very well -- they're not monitored at all. they're not very well established. children are often treated harshly. sometimes there's violence. sometimes they're not provided the entitlements and sometimes they're sexually abused. often they're caused to leave those families before they turn 15, which is the age for which they should be legally paid and then they go on the streets. >> larry: how much sexual slavery, maggie, is involved in this? >> larry, i think when children are abandoned or separated from their families and not in the care and affection of their parents, they're exposed to all kinds of dangers, including sexual exploitation, which, of course, is not unheard of in haiti. we have seen some statistics suggesting that up to maybe a third of our young women, especially in the city do suffer

some kind of sexual violence. so it is a danger even before the quake. and there's no reason to think that those numbers have decreased. >> larry: anderson, how do we know an orphan is an orphan? you see a little child on the street there. how do you know if the parns are living, if the father is living, mother dead, how do you know? >> well, you don't really know. you can talk to them. but oftentimes they are simply separated. they can tell you that i heard my mother died, but i don't know. people just disappear here in the earthquake. a mother goes out to buy something in the store, the store collapsed on her. the child hasn't seen her but heard through stories that she's dead. there really needs to be a system in place. unicef is working on it, save the children and i'm sure the red cross will be in trying to identify and cataloged all these uncompanied minors out there with the aim with reuniting them with their parents, if parents are out there, reuniting them with other family members or figuring out these kids really are orphans and we'll need some

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>> larry: lisa, is it possible that a lot of children are being adopted haphazardly? >> larry, we don't actually know. we know some children have left haiti already to go to other countries. i understand that the children who have come to the united states so far were children who

were in the process of adoption and so far along that there was almost no question or no question at all about what their status should be. i think the concern now is that we not rush to adoption and we not rush to the adumgs that these parents don't have parents or extended family that might want to care for them. adoption may be an important and necessary option for them down the line, but the first thing that we need to do is make sure that if they have family that is out there, if there are neighbors and community members who want to and have the capacity to care for them ethically and responsibly that we're in a position to let that happen before it's too late. >> larry: maggie, i know that you met with the president and first lady of haiti. did you discuss the possibility of this problem with them? >> larry, i did have the honor of meeting the president and the first lady this morning. and i did have the opportunity to bring up to them world vision's concern about the

well-being of children. and i'm glad to report that the first lady was already aware of that and is working on an initiative and world vision is looking forward to perhaps assisting the government in the coming weeks and days, especially first lady's office about this initiative concerning children. can i just add one more thing. from earlier, the haitian prime minister had, in his daily meeting with heads of agencies, made it very clear in no uncertain terms a couple of days ago that adoptions are not likely to succeed. the government has granted some expedited adoptions, but those were already in process and they were done on formal requests from embassies here. so i do think the government is aware of the danger of hasty adoptions. the impulse is certainly understood and i don't mean to

impugn those who would want to do that. i understand the impulse of wanting to help children. but just to clarify, the government is aware of this problem and is very, very much on task about not allowing that to happen. >> larry: anderson, trying to get a picture of this. are there a lot of children just running loose? >> you come across kids all the time who are identified as being on their own. you go to general hospital. i met a little boy named johnny who was 5, didn't know his last name. the nurse told me he had no one watching over him. she was keeping an eye over him. i met another restavec girl who 20 kids were said they were orphans. there was even an indication they were willing to let me just take these kids. there's a lot of kind of kids floating around in ad hoc groups with maybe some adults, some locals looking after them. but they really need to be

watched over in a much more organized setting by international groups, by haitian orphanages and really get a sense of how many there are and exactly what their needs ever. >> larry: thank you all very much. coming up, a hopeful story about survival. what kept dan woolly alive under the rubble of a hotel in haiti for 65 hours? ♪ throughout our lives, we encounter new opportunities. at the hartford, we help you pursue them with confidence.

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montana in port-au-prince for 65 hours. you can see he survived the ordeal. his wife christy joins us, too. how did you do it, dan? >> you know what? i had a lot of people praying for peay, praying for safety for this trip. and god was there. he was listening to their prayers. and he helped me survive. >> larry: what were you doing in haiti? >> i worked with compassion international. and i was there with a filmmaker, david haynes. we were shooting a documentary to shine a light on the poverty, extreme poverty of children there. >> larry: i understand you wrote notes while buried under the rubble to your wife and your two sons. how did you do that? >> well, i realized that i was always hoping for a rescue, but i realized that i may not have that opportunity. that may not be god's plan for me at that time. so i had a camera with me and i was able to use the light from

the focus on the camera to shine on a page, then i'd write a couple lines, and move my finger down, then write a couple more lines. i just wanted to say to my wife and kids the things i would want them to carry with them if i wasn't able to get out. >> larry: christy, have you seen those notes? >> i've seen some of them, yes. >> i'm not ready -- >> larry: what did you say, dan? >> oh, i'm not ready to share them all yet. we're still working through some of that. >> larry: christy, what was it like for you? did you give up hope? >> i did in the end. i did give up hope because, oh, gosh, i kept praying out to god. didn't know if dan was in heaven or in haiti. i went from times of despair to times of hope. but it was hard to go back and forth, and then we have two

young sons. and hard to stay strong for them and say daddy's coming home, daddy's coming home, and then not know for sure. >> larry: how did you learn he was okay? >> the state department called me at 6:00 in the morning, friday morning. i started packing. and they said that they found him. he was alive, but he couldn't get to him. so i packed my boots and my gloves and my hat and my sunglasses and i was on my way to haiti to dig. and i got a call in the dallas airport that they had been able to extract him. >> larry: i understand there was another man buried and you were talking to him, too, dan, is that true? >> that's right. i was able to communicate with about seven other people, but right next to me in the elevator shaft next to me was a haitian gentleman. and we actually -- we could hear each other well. and we talked a lot. and we prayed together. and we sang songs together. and just really encouraged each other. you know what?

holding on to hope in a situation like that was just really vital. and i wanted to do everything i could to get back to my wife and my boys. >> larry: christy, when that phone rang at 6:00 a.m., that could have been anything on that call. that could have been bad news. >> yes. >> larry: do you remember what you felt before you picked up the phone? >> well, my sister answered it, and then she brought the phone to me. and she said, christy, it's the state department. they're calling. and i had to fall on the floor. i couldn't even stand up. my legs were shaking so badly. and i just said, have you heard anything from my husband? and they said, well, a man named dan woolly has been identified. and i said, is he alive. and they said, yes, he's alive. could he identify himself? can you tell me his injuries. they didn't know anything and also, they couldn't get to him. but you know, yeah. >> i'm doing great. i've got a big cut on my leg that's healing.

i'm going to have a great scar there. and other than that -- >> a broken leg, a broken foot. >> but i'm alive and i'm with my family and just grateful to god and all the people around the world who were praying for me. >> larry: congratulations to both of you. what a story. next mary j. blige, an degree ya.

>> larry: welcome back to "larry king live." joining us now mary j. blige, nine time grammy award winning recording artist and andrea bocelli. along with david foster, 15-time grammy winning music producer. they have an announcement to make. you make it, david. >> we got together, the 40th anniversary of this song "bridge over troubled water." the producer of the grammys picked this song for mary and andrea to sing as a tribute to that song and also a tribute to -- i mean, to raise funds for what's happening in haiti. and it's been a labor of love

with these two great but diverse voices. >> larry: they will sing it on the grammys sunday night? >> they will, yes. >> larry: how does it benefit haiti? >> all the proceeds, from steve jobs, target, interscope records, warner records, everybody is donating 100% to the red cross for haiti relief. >> larry: mary, have you sung with andrea before? >> yes, i have. on his christmas album wee did "what child is this," the duet on his album. >> larry: what's it like to sing with him. >> it's amazing. it's a gift. >> larry: a challenge. >> it is absolutely a challenge. it's so different from me. i'm so happy, so honored. >> larry: andrea, you are so famous in the world of opera. >> oh, come on. >> larry: is "bridge over troubled waters" difficult for you? >> this is a beautiful song. very beautiful song. but i think that in this case it's very important song because we know that there are many, many children suffering in haiti. and this is the first reason for

which i am here. i love this country, i like very, very much to sing with mary j. blige, but i know that together we can do big things for many children suffering in this moment. and this is the most important thing. >> larry: david, it must be quite a to bring these two together. >> it was. >> larry: you produced the christmas album. >> with mary sang with andrea. he and ken ehrlich brain childed this system. they're so different. it took a while to crack code. we did. such an important project. to talk about haiti is just redundant, such a problem down there. >> larry: the song is 40 years old? >> 40. which makes you and i, larry -- >> larry: the song is older than

you. >> yes. >> larry: you must know this from your childhood. >> my mother used to play the aretha franklin version when i was a child. i used to listen to her when she played it and even sneaking listening to it when she wasn't around. >> larry: does it have great meaning to you, andrea? >> what's that? >> larry: does it have great meaning to sing the song? >> i remember when i was a child, i knew already this song. and i sang also this song in the piano bar when i was younger. >> larry: in the piano bar? >> yes. >> can you imagine andrea bocelli in a piano bar. >> during the university i played in the piano bar all the evening. with the money, i bought many, many keyboards, it was my passion. >> larry: when are we going to the karaoke bar together? >> what i love about them is they're so fearless. they come together so beautifully. that's the true mark of a superstar, i think. >> larry: how has the haiti story affected you, mary?

>> i mean, very heavily. because it's like a two-hour plane ride away, haiti. so it is home. so it's affecting me just as -- you know, not to the extreme that's tha it's affecting them. but i have to put myself in their shoes to understand their pain. it is home. i am them. >> larry: how is the concert tour going? andrea has sold out everywhere, right? >> we did a christmas tour together. and now more projects coming. hopefully i'll be involved with mary and andrea in the future. can you imagine sitting there getting paid toen to these voices. >> larry: have you got a tour coming? >> i definitely have a tour coming. when? proubl this spring some time. >> larry: are you going to record more with female singers? >> i like it. i record only with women singers. >> mary, you have an album out right now. >> yes. "stronger with each tear".

>> larry: "stronger with each tear." >> that's right. with each tear we cry, we can only get stronger, i hope. >> larry: we're going to hear that song coming up now. the grammys sunday night. we'll see that performance. >> andrea bocelli and mary j. blige. >> larry: the money goes to haiti. >> the red cross. >> larry: mary j. blige's rendition of "each tear." ♪ you're much more than a trouble that you go through ♪ ♪ you're not defined by your pain ♪ ♪ so let it go ♪ you're not a victim you're more like a winner ♪ ♪ and you're not a defeat ♪ makes you rise up ♪ make you stronger than you know ♪ ♪ each tear