. >> next edwidge danticat "so spoke the earth: the haiti i knew, the haiti i know, the haiti i want to know" talked to booktv about the earthquake in haiti. st >> now joins us here on the booktv set is edwidge danticat. who isjoinin ang author and heo recentk book is "so spoke the earth: the haiti i knew, the haiti i know, the haiti i want to know" in january 2010, where were you?januy >> on january 2010, i was here in miami. i was in a supermarket with my daughters when someone called me and said there had been an here earthquake i in haiti, of cours, so muchn so many lives werehait. changed them. i lost two family members in the earthquake, and many friends,li and the country lost something like 100,000 people.frie >> when did you get down haiti after the earthquake. when was your first visit down.o >> i i had a very little baby at the time. get back until a few weeks later to see some family and to see some friends and see how they were doing. >> you got haiti three weeksm after the earthquake. >> it was s a difficult trip. what was it like when you gote there? >> it was difficul

port au prince haiti. all right so there's plenty that could be said about haiti so far we've only touched upon a few the key issues so to talk a little more about what we learn and a haiti and more issues that make finding a solution to the ongoing crisis so important i'm joined by my own producer for breaking a segment while rob lowe is not only has gone for a good trip there and. so i just wanted to love i took a bunch of photos there that i wanted to play as as we're talking here what i noticed was really cute you know even as extreme as the conditions were all the kids you know they still dressed up to go to school the ribbons their hair really cute little girls there but we did go to the worst in port au prince. and it sounds cliche to say especially when you see conditions as bad as these but life does go on and i mean it was amazing how quickly once you i mean once we did leave the habitat for humanity camp we got a chance to go and see the rest of the city we had these two guys that didn't even .

in haiti. sally black a habitat worker from oregon who is returning for the third time speculates on what more can be done anything we can do to help them would be appreciated coming from to help them start micro businesses help them. to learn how to. dispose of trash why. there are a lot of things we can i just don't know how to do it how to get it started claude judy national director of habitat for humanity adds that laying the groundwork for sustainability is a crucial goal for the organization. will not be for ever so we trained them. in the not to take charge of his son but how to empower the entire nation it's a question shared by the international community finding a way to provide aid that also promotes sustainability world nations pledged nearly four to half billion dollars after the earthquake but according to the u.n. only about half of that money has been allocated to the haitian government a point president carter said is regrettable adding that the aid to haiti should be forthcom

it is "so spoke the earth: the haiti i knew, the haiti i know, the haiti i want to know." different women talk about this. it is a trilingual anthology in english, french, and creole. it's generational. we talk about the people who were surviving it. we talk about their friends and neighbors. there is an opportunity for people who don't know much about haiti to get to know katie through a variety of women writers wasted. >> host: is creole very different from french? >> guest: creel -- creole is a language of its own. it came from the french, spanish, english, all of these people came to haiti. and so creole is a very beautiful language. it is often maligned language, even within haiti. poems and stories and it's also an opportunity to celebrate language and celebrate creole. if you live here and grew up here is a haitian american or a haitian person, we wanted to present the anthology of what it is to have all of these voices together. >> host: bespeak all three? >> i do, yes. what is your story about? >> to grow growth and a haitian household, your parents are always tal

just two weeks ago my producer and i went to haiti where we helped build homes for habitat for humanity alongside president jimmy carter and his wife rosalynn the devastation in the country two years after the earthquake was hard to bear even more alarming than the rubble and severe poverty was learned about of the you and introduced cholera into the country two years ago it's a disease that has killed over seven hundred fifty thousand haitians i'm sorry seven hundred fifty thousand asians and infected six hundred twenty thousand more but of course the u.n. still hasn't taken responsibility for the outbreak thankfully there are other organizations taking the initiative to shed some light on the growing epidemic. in fact filmmaker all over stone who we just had on the show yesterday has just launched a petition demanding that the u.n. take urgent action to resolve the problem and ensure access to clean water so the talk about haiti's ongoing struggle and initiatives that are at work to fight the color of the demick and the country's political instability i'm joined now by beatrice lynn s

take urgent action to resolve the problem and ensure access to clean water so the talk about haiti's ongoing struggle in the initiatives that are work to fight the color of the demick and the country's political instability i'm joined now by beatrice lim storm human rights lawyer an attorney at the institute for justice and democracy and he beatrice thanks for joining me. thanks for having me can you really quickly clarify i think i just butchered the number of how many have actually died from the cholera outbreak could you just correct you quickly sure so the official numbers are that since october two thousand and over seven thousand eight hundred people have died and over six hundred thousand have fallen sick so it's impacted around five percent of haiti's population but that just reflects the official number of people which are individuals who are actually able to make it to hospitals or to cholera treatment centers and it doesn't account for all those people who have fallen sick and have died in rural areas where they maybe weren't able to get to the hospital and so people specu

and they are so unique to haiti, it's fascinating. >> do you think of haiti a lot when you are here? you? >> for sure. it's part of your life when you see the good and the bad. it's not possible to live your life here and not know what they are doing down there. they have been through so much, and our history is so inter

special envoys office is estimated just in haiti. just leaves one wondering where all the money has gone. frankly if you look at as they have done where all the money has gone, hardly any has gone to strengthen the government. >> reporter: partners in health which has been in haiti for 5 years is trying to restore what it says is the appropriate role for the government. >> 60% of our beds have medica medical... electrical receptacles and data capacity. >> reporter: the group raised $22 million to build a 300-bed state-of-the-art teaching hospital in central haiti. however, it then partnered with haiti's ministry of health to design and run it. it will turn over the hospital to the government in 10 years. this doctor says haiti can never be rebuilt unless it has a strong, accountable government. >> it would be so much easier for us to run it and not coordinate with anybody but ourselves because we're really smart or at least we think we are. >> reporter: and you are the guys with the money. >> we are the guys with the money. again n.g

reporter: the 2010 earthque that devastated haiti may still loom large in americans' memory but in haiti itself, that was at least three disasters ago. before hurricanes thomas last year, isaac in august and recently sandy. each storm brought a grim reminder of yet one more ever-present disaster: the deadly cholera epidemic that started ten months after the quake. at the cholera ward of saint luke's hospital just outside the capital port-au-prin, this doctor says since hurricane sandy admissions have doubled from 20 to 40 patients each day. >> most of the new cases are coming from further up the hill in places where we had not seen them before. i'm not positive but perhaps the wells there have been contaminated. >> reporter: experts believe cholera was brought here by u.n. peacekeepers. untreated sewage from this base flowed into a tributary of the river, the major source of water foroth washing and drinking. cholera is spread by fecal-oral contact. two years on 200,000 patients have been sickened, 750 d 7,500 have died from diarrhea and fluid loss. each flood brings more contaminated wa

actor and director ben stiller is famous for his come dis, but the poverty in haiti made him get serious and get to work. >> i just wanted to be able to help people i thought were doing good work and actually getting things done. >> for decades, supermodel christie turlington burns is known for her beautiful face. now she is using her voice as a global crusader for maternal health. >> i was already holding my baby and bonding with my baby and i started to hemorrhage. >> he's is ready to perform at cnn heroes, r. >> reporter: b superstar's neotalks to a.j. hammer about the cause close to his heart, giving hope to kids caught in the dposer system. >> a lot of these kids get counted out before they get a chance a-to-even get into the game. >>> raising awareness, providing concrete solutions or simply lending a hand to those who go without, these celebrities are doing what they can to make a difference. join us as we take a look at how they are giving back and hoping to inspire others to do the same. >> one, two, three. ♪ >>> super mold it so title only a few women in the world have held but

>>> coming up, in haiti we report on one successful ministry of healing and shelter. despite natural disaster and failed bury rock sees. >> the surprise to everybody including to us is that we could do it all pretty much without batting an eye lash. >> a prominent evangelical leader reflects on 25 years in the culture wars. plus, menorahs and lighting the hanukkah lamps. >> welcome. i'm bob aber nathy. it's good to have you with us. members of congress came together for the annual lighting of the capitol christmas tree, although they were deadlocked on matters. religious groups advocated for action on the fiscal cliff and other issues. a coalition of religious leaders, law enforcement and business people urged lawmakers to prioritize immigration reform. the group included both liberal and conservative clergy who called for legislation that respects the dignitiy of immigrants and creates a pathway to citizenship and secures the border. >> it's time to secure on you values, values that include, faith and hope and charity. >> jewish groups are divided over israel's plans

he's the founder of one of the largest medical care facilities for children and many adults in haiti. it's grown by necessity often out of tragedy. he's a member of the community of passion did tates and he beg years ago with what seemed a more straightforward mission, a shelter and school for orphans. today 800 children are housed at several centers. this one taking in the overflow functions out of converted shipping containers. the shelter's young managers themselves grew up here. billie jean is one. he was brought at age 3 to the orphanage. today he works to master english and is in law school. >> my mother was pregnant very early, about 16 years old. my father took off. then my mother couldn't take care of me. she decided to -- she heard about it, and she decided to put me there. >> his mother visits occasionally he says, but the orphanage is very much his family. >> that's our goal, it to restore the family over one generation to raise the children together so they have memories of their own childhood, restored childhood and later in life they become aunts and uncles to each othe

haiti. as you know, a few years ago the haitian people suffered an earthquake and the initial problem was crush injuries. yes, infection and dysentery and water supply and all those things would follow fairly soon, but the initial catastrophe was crush injuries, trauma, and the hospitals were gone. so what did we do? the world responded as best it could. what we did, the naval maritime forces, we sent our balts group down there which was patroling the area, we sent the hospital ship comfort down. so you have the comfort on the east coast, you have the mercy on the west coast. the mercy is parked down in san diego. it just got back from its asian humanitarian assistance from guam, indonesia, vietnam, an amazing number of nations we're partnering with. those hospital ships with 1,000 beds, 12 operating rooms, they produce their own medical oxygen, they have ct scanners and they can do almost anything a hospital on the west coast can do and we can park them offshore as we did in haiti and in ha

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the isar team remains in haiti for ten more days. they don't find anymore survivors. >> as we left, it was like being torn apart. we wanted to do more, but we couldn't do more. >> one of the most difficult things was all the people that we didn't rescue. so i think about that a lot. >> the haitian government estimates the earthquake claimed more than 300,000 lives. for veradia, this rescue team from across the globe has made all the difference. she has her life. >> because it was to me incredible and impossible that all this would happen. these people are heroes >> i felt very connected to her. this is an experience that will follow me the rest of my life. >> it's a pleasure to see her. to be able to help my country. >> coming up, a tourist captures something extraordinary. >> then you hear this noise. like a click, click, click. >> when a centuries old sequoia crashes to the ground. and later for these tourists, a day trip in italy ends in terror when caught on camera: what on earth? continues >>> when a giant sequoia tree falls in

you know, $3 a day to someone in haiti is huge. >> reporter: this 10-year-old lives in haiti and sheetting around on a broken wheelchair until she received her new p.e.t. and while it's 2,000 miles from haiti to leighton, iowa, he says the tangible amount of his work shortened the distance. >> i feel like we're not doing enough. >> want me to tell you a joke? >> reporter: for these old men, generosity truly is its own reward. dean reynolds, cbs news, leighton, iowa. >>> coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," an update on washington's fiscal cliff negotiations. we'll hear from republican senator bob corker, plus the damaging economic strikes looming at more than a dozen of our nation's forts. >>> a guy getting fit will sit with the best-selling authors of "fit" this year. that's the "cbs morning news" for this friday. thanks for watching. i'm duarte geraldino. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald >>> hi, everyone. good morning. it's our last friday of 2012! december 28th. i'm frank mallicoat. >> i'm m

. $3 a day income to someone in haiti is huge. >> reporter: ten-year-old jevaleen benjamin lives in haitigetting around on a broken wheelchair until she received her new p.e.t. and while it's 2,000 miles from haiti to leighton, iowa, bruxvoort says the tangible results of his work shorten the distance. >> i feel like we're not doing enough. i'd like to do more. but to be able to do something for other people is just so rewarding. >> want me to tell you a joke? [ laughter ] >> reporter: for these old men, generosity truly is its own reward. dean reynolds, cbs news, leighton, iowa. >> that is the "cbs evening news" tonight. for scott pelley, i'm jeff glor. i'll see you tomorrow on "cbs this morning." good night. captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com >>> >> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald. >>> good evening, i'm elizabeth cook. >> i'm allen martin. they say the first step is admitting you have a problem. and tonight oakland city leaders have done exactly that. three -- three months ago they acknowledged there is no plan to reduce crime now they admit they n

>> [inaudible] my experience with the haiti response. in this casey i was working at the deputy principal committee level and working at the white house. but it was really the first opportunity for this administration to work with a very complex response, and then recognizing for us the supported commander was usaid that normally isn't in the emergency response business. so, it was an educational process of how to move forces and yet support usaid and the role of the country team and port au prince. so, it was very informative there. and to back up when we had the first no fooling hurricane that worked its way up the entire gulf coast, the principal committee calls that were generated during the haiti response were then turned around and then bringing all of the governors into a conference call with the president to make sure that all their needs were being met in the advance of a hurricane arrival. so, we really had all of government, from local all the way up to the white house, fully included in that response. but the haiti response w

former president jimmy carter working in heat nearing 100 degrees, with wife roselynn in haiti. during a break, the carters describe one of the people they helped. >> she cried a couple of times when she saw the walls going up in the mid many. she had tears going down her cheeks. >> maria lived in a tent for two years after the 2010 quake. >> it was a big honor for the president to build my house. i was really happy about this. >> a year after marie received her house, carter remains moved. a reminder of his decades-long focus on international human rights. his crowning international achievement, middle east peace. the 1978 camp david peace accord. many years later, carter remain as tough critic of the current players, including benjamin netanyahu. >> the netanyahu policy needs to change. because he's the first prime minister in the history of the israel that has shifted to a one-state, instead of a two-state solution. he's determined, think to have israel control all the way from the jordan river to the caribbean. >> and some criticism of president obama as well. >> he made a s

we have ongoing projects in cambodia, haiti, and south africa and helping out in areas just as the tsunamia we tributed one mill object pounds of food aid. [ applause ] >> and all of that is coming from the lgbt and friends community. so we work as ambassadors for our community and we help change people's minds and hearts about who we are and what we care about. besides providing humanitarian aid, we try to inspire hope in all of our projects and we have found that hope is really just as important as aid, if not more so. and we have worked with a lot of communities in desperate situations arounded world and we found that providing a little bit of humanitarian aid and a lot of courage and hope it is amazing that people in desperate circumstances can do to improve theirs life. so seven years ago we really have a feeling that in the united states, we really need to increase our hope also. and we decided to do that by creating a global art project, the world, tree of hope. and what you see behind you is a live, 23-foot christmas tree and it is covered with 10,000 pieces of oragami and most of

. >> ifill: fred de sam lazaro profiles a priest who became a doctor to help haiti's poor and orphaned children. >> brown: and we close with a conversation with the editor of a new anthology of verse: 100 poems written over 100 years. >> it doesn't have poetry. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> brown: gunfire tore at the nation's holiday mood again today, with the emotional wounds from a school massacre still fresh. there were more fatal shootings, including one in western new york, where an attacker lay in wait for a fire crew. >> responding firefighters when they pu

>> there is from haiti. >> this is made out of what? >> a reup cycle second-degree oil drum. >> that is. >> an up-cycle oil drum. >> that is amazing! who would have thought. where do you get this stuff. >> >> if you go to macy's, they have a whole section for haiti's artisans. >> and finally, are you going to mail cards or do you -- . >> i will not mail cards. i do not like to discourage people from sending greetings, but paperless post has designs you can email. and they donate to charity. >> i stop sending cards. >> i call somebody up and have a conversation with them. >> exactly. 2.65billion christmas cards purchased every year. >> away they go in the trash then. >> yes. >> thank you for being here. sierra magazine has more ideas. you can get that or take a look at it at sierramagazine.com. that isiermagazine.com. -- sierramagazine.com. more ahead. don't go away! thank you! . >>> well, what a popular event, what to do if you are jewish on christmas? the answer, jewish comedy and a chinese restaurant, known as kung pow! >> welcome bac