. >> another exodus of migrants from haiti was stopped today. 56 detained orp a boat near where a haitian vessel capsized three days ago. at least 30 people drowned in that accident. haitian boats often pass by the bahamas, trying to reach the united states. haitians are fleeing a nation still recovering from a massive earthquake nearly four years ago and now confronting another killer-- cholera, a disease spread through contaminated water has cholera can be prevented, but haiti doesn't have the millions of dollars it would take to do it. now jeff glor in haiti tells us a small army of volunteers is stepping in to help. >> this is the city where world water relief has most of their projects. >> reporter: in the town where haiti's cholera epidemic began, 19-year-old samuel marseila is trying to change his country. >> i don't like when my brothers and sisters die from something that i can prevent them doing, you know. >> reporter: you believe this work can save lives? >> of course. >> reporter: a lot of lives? >> of course. >> reporter: he is a te

>> haiti is like my heart. you know what i mean? for me to renew has to go back to haiti. you have to move ahead in life. i have to do that journey. by doing so, it makes me a better person and appreciate my and my parents's life a lot more. it's not easy. >> obviously last year haiti was struck by natural disaster. there was a huge rebuilding effort. you have been at the center of trying to help haiti become strong again. >> well, it's like i said. i can't be on the sideline and watch things go down and not do anything. at the end of the day it's like one of us, we are all hurt. >> to me it's about education. we educate one, we help raise a village. >> that's right. >> that's what i'm all about. >> mark is always in tune. it doesn't matter if you fast forward. we always come back to haiti. >> this movement going on, i see the movement and the people at the center of their life, like everybody else. so they lend a hand to other brothers and sisters who can't afford to do for themselves. >> who were the biggest influences in terms of photography? >> there was a lot. from bl

and this last one from when i was in haiti. haiti obviously is in the backyard of the u.s. so there were tons of well-intentioned people who came down to help out after the earthquake day. this was about people who were there and myself as well. look at those people, a colleague said to me when we were in port-au-prince, they were wearing matching blue shirts and cameras hanging from their necks, and inexperience dripping from their sweaty faces. of want to get it right we need to stop encouraging every volunteer who can pick up a shovel and for rocks on the back of a truck to come down here. if it were you in your family would you want amateurs determining how to respond? it is like giving people shotguns and sending them to afghanistan to fight the war. in other emergencies there are travel constraints, restrictions, the cost of a plane ticket, the length of the flight, the fact that the flight would end with them landing in the middle of a war zone, combined to dissuade most would be humanitarian from just dropping in. haiti was the one hour flight from miami and did not

alega que haitÍ violÓ uno de los puntos que es no acudir a ningÚn organismo internacional y buscar laconÓmicas y sociales. bajar un poco y de mejor manera posible. >>> esto se produce luego que la comunidad del caribe, en rechazo a la sentencia, suspendiera de manera oficial, la evaluaciÓn de la solicitud hecha por repÚblica dominicana para incorporarse a este organismo. >>> ningÚn presidente puede decirnos a nosotros, lo que aceptamos y lo que no es aceptable. el presidente con todo el derecho que tiene poder decidir eso en haitÍ. >>> pero aquÍ, decidimos los dominicanos. >>> a propÓsito el gobierno convocÓ a los jefes de los organismos de seguridad del paÍs para activar la vigilancia en la frontera. >>> se manejara con mucho tacto y mucha informaciÓn sale de repÚblica dominicana. mal manejada. en el sentido que hay sectores, que manipulan situaciones de antaÑo, para traerla por los moÑos a esta Época y eso, naturalmente tiende a oscurecer la situaciÓn. >>> en otra reuniÓn, las autoridades revisaron el plan nacional de regularizaciÓn de los extranjeros, en situaciÓn migratoria y regu

si hablamos de los haitianos, en el caso de haitÍ, es mÁs restringido, porque en haitÍ, incluso los residentesmado la frontera, dice lo contrario, y dice que para repÚblica dominicana, la inmigraciÓn, descontrolada de haitianos es un serio peligro. >>> hablando de abusos y atropellos, dice por quÉ el delito de los haitianos, y dice por el mismo de los judÍos a los que hitler privÓ de la existencia legal antes de campos de exterminio por ser una raza despreciada. critica a repÚblica dominicana por despreciar a cientos de miles de haitianos por discriminaciÓn por racismo. >>> no despreciamos a ninguna nacionalidad. >>> los estÁn rechazando. >>> no, no se estÁ rechazando, cuÁntos haitianos fueron deportados de repÚblica dominicana cÓmo consecuencia de la sentencia? que es la misma que se produjo en el 2005, ni uno solo. repÚblica dominicana dio acogida a centenares de miles de haitianos. >>> de manera pacifica. >>> no habrÁ deportaciones masivas? >>> el presidente dijo que no, que nadie que resulte afectado por la sentencia puede pensar que sus derechos no van a ser re reconocidos, se buscarÁ una

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haiti project spring break 2010.ost were missionary groups or international ordinary people, extraordinary purpose. angel missions relief for recovery birth. love tv missions keeping hope alive. the last but not least church of the brethren i am headed to haiti, where are you going? meanwhile the relief team had batching baseball caps while the scientologists favored identical orange ponchos. no matter what the members wore come every group's agenda was always the same. they cleared out rubble, said prayers except for the vegans can't think of pictures and left. if thei they're sure to another brazen enough, the conversations were. on one of my many flights back from new york -- excuse me, back to new york i was joined by firefighters. after the baggage carousel stalled for a third time, some of the firemen started to get restless. the group leader admonished them. i told you it's like a fourth world country. you have to be patient. standing to the left were several haitians who understood him perfectly well. a few w

haiti with ten million people and little access to clean water.y prepared for a cholera epidemic. lucette paul's family has been torn apart by the disease. her daughter, father, and brother all died. when i think about them, paul told us, i know the pain they had to go through before they passed away. paul is now one of those suing the united nations for bringing cholera to the country, an epidemic that began after u.n. peacekeepers arrived follows the earthquake in 2010. nicole phillips is the attorney handling the case from the port-au-prince. if the united nations wasn't here after the earthquake, would this outbreak have happened? >> no. the people thought that that water was still safe to drink and they kept drinking it and now the cholera has spread so far into the river system that it would be impossible to eradicate. >> reporter: forensic studies have linked the spread of the disease to a flawed sewage system at the u.n. base from soldiers from any paul. they show that the bacteria came from southeast asia. cholera spread through human fee

serÍa la repÚblica dominicana nosotros fuimos invadidos por haitÍ. >>> los que se oponen seÑaquaneo queeva york, eni pichardo, univisiÓn. >>> el malestar mexicano por la intervenciÓn a un avion en venezuela, sigue dando quÉ hablar. las autoridades dicen que aterrizÓ en una pista clandestina, mÉxico habÍa pedido explicaciones y tambiÉn colaborar para esclarecer este incidente. >>> las urnas cerraros y falta los resultados para saber si habrÁ una segunda vuelta en chile. >>> son mÁs 13 millones los que tuvieron la posibilidad de elegir al prÓximo presidente del paÍs. y dos de las candidatas que cuentan con mayor posibilidad fueron acompaÑas por la prensa hasta la mesa de votaciÓn. bachelet quiere regresar, su comando de campaÑa fue tomado por estudiantes. y tambiÉn votÓ evelyn matei, al recorrer los centros de votaciÓn se reconociÓ reformar la carta magna. >>> cambio de la constituciÓn, y tener un parlamento que apoye al gobierno, porque si no tiene un parlamento que lo apoye no podÁa conseguir. >>> el estadio nacional es el mayor lugar de votaciÓn. >>> la gente igual sale en votar en mas

. >> reporter: january 2010, a major earthquake devastates haiti. user her contacts, michelle helped -- using her contacts, michelle helped organize the largest earthquake effort in the bay area and spurred her on to tackle a big issue. >> energy is a huge problem. only one in eight people has access to electricity. without any access, you are lock in grinding poverty. >> reporter: at a recent event in watch the, michelle showed off the center -- in washington, michelle showed off the centerpiece of her solution. >> it's a solar generator 1.5- kilowatt solar array to charge portable battery packs. >> reporter: even generator placed in a village can charge and recharge 100 portable battery pack. >> pack gets carried in, plug it in, it recharges. >> reporter: each portable pack can charge cell phones and light a home for 5 to 7 days before recharging. that's 100 homes at a cost of just $6 a month when an average haitian family spends that now for kerosene. >> watching a child turn on the light first time is astonishing. it's miraculous. >> reporter: t

this was true after the 2010 haiti earthquake. hurricane katrina in 2005, and the indonesia tsunami in 2014. in that disaster americans donated $1.6 billion. the philippine crisis is in its early days but cash is rolling in to relief organizations. the salvation army says it now has received more than $1 million. another reports it has received $1.5 million from just over 10,000 individual donors. although aid is on its way, widespread infrastructure damage continues to hamper the relief efforts. >> we're not able to move, and residents of tacloban has not reached much so far. it's not anyone's fault. it's just the complexitier access. so aid is on its way. >> there is some process. many roads have been cleared, cellphones are beginning to work again, but aid workers struggle with the 4,000 dead. victims being buried in mass graves before families could even identify them. experts warn now is the peak period of danger for infectious diseases to spread. >> joining us now to discuss the aid and the huge task ahead in the philippines

you are talking about the storm that came to haiti. do you lock at similarities we these relief ach agencies are handling the enormous disasters. >> i was in new york after sandy. and there were a lot of similarities in the way that the people were reacting in new york and on the ground in haiti after 2010. >> like what? >> people know that tons of money is going into the american red cds cross. cd -- red cross. >> and it's often not obvious where that money is going if you have are somebody that is directly affected by the disaster. you won't see as many red cross personnel or trucks with their logo on it as you might ex-expect in the amount that they raised. in the case of haiti they raised 4$460 million. >> we had about three permanent foreign staffers own the ground at the time. when i was writing my book and i was going back and asking why wasn't there more visible presence on the ground immediately after the disas at the one of the responses they gave is there is only so much money they can push through at the time it's almost ad

president bush to together lead what they called the clinton bush haiti fund.ws how president obama will spend his post presidency time. i think he will only be 55 years old when he leaves oufs so that means he will presumably have a long time to be an expresident. or if you're george w. bush you could spend that time trying to convert the jews to christianianty. this is the one that is raising money to convince the jews that jesus is the messiah. so yeah. maybe this is the one that is weirding people out just a touch. especially the jews. there was the time when it was the 60th anniversary of the liberation of -- and he turned up like he was nine and this was a sledding trip or something. there was that moment. that happened. the george w. bush administration generally had a really good relationship with the jewish community. he got a lot of votes from the jewish community. no one has ever made the case that he is insensitive to the jewish faith in anyway. he is not that guy. but he apparently is still planning on doing this jews for jesus thing. maybe for mon

you've obviously covered some of the worst natural disasters from haiti to others. how does this compare to being where you are on the ground in tacloban to what you covered before? >> you know, obviously in death toll it's smaller. we don't know an official death toll, numbers vary and nobody really knows because there is no actual search for those who died. there is in accounting for those who died at this point n. haiti hundreds of thousands in puerto prince so it was concentrated. this entire area is just gone. the houses that were here are largely gone, and people have nowhere to go. there isn't electricity. there isn't food. there isn't water. it's not as if there is neighbors that they can fall back on. it's always hard to compare one to another. certainly for the people here it's the worst thing that's ever happened to them and the worst thing that ever will happen to them. there are families -- there are mothers living, having to sleep near the bodies of their dead children, having to smell their dead children and this is day five. it's been going on now fo

[canta] >> este hombre emigrÓ hacia repÚblica dominicana en el aÑo 2011 luego del terremoto en haitÍciÓn para vender mÁs. es una canciÓn por la maÑana. el palito de coco. preparse bien, baÑarse y salir a la calle a vender. despuÉs, todo el mundo te gusta a mÍ. >> tal es la popularidad que ha adquirido que cantÓ en el estadio de bÉisbol ante miles de fanÁticos de ese aporte. >> tambiÉn ya grabÓ hasta un vÍdeo con la canciÓn que lo popularizÓ. [♪ mÚsica ♪] >> esto sucede precisamente en medio de la polÉmica sentencia del tribunal constitucional que establece que no son dominicanos los hijos de indocumentados que nazcan en territorio dominicano. >> parece como si fuera chocante, como el Éxito de santo domingo, con Él de nacionalidad haitiana. >> vive al norte del paÍs e increÍblemente por dÓnde camina, decenas de niÑos, jÓvenes y adultos corean su canciÓn. tal es el Éxito que en los prÓximos dÍas viajarÁ a haitÍ donde serÁ recibido por el propio presidente haitiano. esperanza ceballos, univisiÓn. >> el servicio de rentas internas advirtiÓ sobre una estafa telefÓnica muy sofisticada. se

se intensificaron acusandose de algunos asesinatos. >>> las tensiones entre repÚblica dominicana y haitÍrices como si nada. >>> ante la estampida cientos tuvieron que refugiarse en la fortaleza, desconocen el paradero de dos haitianos que acusan de responsables. >>> hasta el momento se refugiaron 263 nacionales haitianos que luego de ser entregados a la policÍa fueron puestos a disposiciÓn. >>> desde que tuvo lugar el asesinato cientos fueron deportados, pero dijeron que lceo regresaron de manera voluntaria. >>> algunos haitianos, 172 en total pidieron auxilio para su seguridad, de los organismos como el estado y el ejercito, y las autoridades brindaron protecciÓn de vida, 172 de ellos pidieron retornar de manera voluntaria. >>> desmintiÓ que 34 haitianos fueron asesinados. y piden que adopten medidas urgentes para que no se vulnere el derechos de los hijos de n haitianos nacidos en el paÍs. >>> el llamado niÑo sicario cumpliÓ una condena. edgar, conocido como el ponchis tenÍa 14 aÑos, confesÓ haber participado en 4 asesinados, dijo que fue obligado a trabajar para el narco trÁfico. el a

>> it is not just haiti, but it's become a permanent feature in haiti and has spread to the anyone can republic. via their humanitarian responders, they took it back to cuba. and from cuba it's gone to mexico where now there's 180 cases reported so far in mexico. and at least five mexican states. so you're seeing how a calamity can become a second calamity, a third calamity, a fourth calamity, if you don't get appropriate responses right in the beginning. now, the good news, and i think we have to admit there is some good news in this picture, is that we are on a learning curve as a global community to how we respond to the catastrophic events. we have a lot less back-biting and squabbles between the responders. we have better coordination going on. and i think each time, each episode, each horror seems to find the international community trying, gapling with ways to coordinate better. and less suspicion, for example, of military responders, such as steve is referring to, having the u.s. military go in. and hopefully all of this is going to mean we'll have less errors made by the respo

>> it's not just haiti.now endemic so it's spread to dominican republic and own responders took it back to cuba and from cuba it has gone to mexico where now there's 180 cases reported so far in mexico in at least five mexican states. you see what happens if you don't get appropriate responses right in the beginning. now, the good news -- i think we have to admit there is some good news in this picture is that we are the learning curve as a global community so how we respond to these catastrophic events. we have less backbiting and squabbles between the responders. we have better coordination going on. i think each time -- each episode, each horror finds the international community trying and grappling with ways to coordinate better and less suspicion of military responders such as steve is referring to having the u.s. military go in. and hopefully all of this is going to mean we'll have less errors made by the responders. the problem now is just simply logistics. you don't have functioning hospitals. you do

in haiti, you had hundreds of thousands of people who died in port-au-prince alone. but in terms of actual devastation, this entire area is just gone. the houses that were here are largely gone. and people have nowhere to go. there isn't electricity. there isn't food. there isn't water. it's not as if there's neighbors that they can fall back on. so it's always hard to compare one to another. certainly, for the people here, it's the worst thing that's ever happened to them and the worst thing that ever will happen to them. there are families, there are mothers having to sleep neared bodies of their dead children, having to smell their dead children, and this is day five. it's been going on now for five days that their child has been laying near them, that they have been smelling their child while they search for their other children who are still missing. and they're searching all by themselves or they're searching with the help of just a few relatives. but many of those relatives are searching for other relatives who are missing. so there's not really a concerted, o

the ahead of usaid who took office days before the haiti earthquake.should all remember as we begin to help in the ways that americans do is follow up. i know, mike, we'll all be on this, because the aftermath of haiti still is not nearly where it should be. so this is something which we all need to stay on. thank you, mike taibbi. >>> there are many ways you can help the typhoon haiyan victims. you can donate through the american red cross at red cross.org, or you can go to red cross.org.ph to donate directly to the pill peeps red cross. or go to wfpusa to donate to world food program which does extraordinary work around the world. think of that. keep everyone in your minds and hearts. be generous. we'll be right back. bl blan. was a peacekeeper in haiti... before william hughes fought in vietnam... and john hughes jumped into normandy... and john anderson hughes served in world war i... and before robert hughes joined the spanish-american war... there were families connected to the belief that freedom was worth fighting for. we're proud to help veter

the 2 billion raised by governments and private enterprises and the like and i was recently in haiti.ething, it is just disasters with famine and abuse as it ever was. so that is what worries me. so you wrote today that the number of children that are dying every year has gone to 8 million and those with extreme poverty have been cut in half thanks to foreign aid. i see examples where that's not the case. >> well, wait a minute. you should've gone to haiti before the earthquake. >> i did. >> it was a vy tough place before the earthquake. >> a lot of the money didn't get spent, a lot of it did get spent to put things back to restoration. so there you are just making up for a huge setback and in terms of health, where you get families to be more healthy, they choose to have less children and their the numbers could not be clearer. my money is in the same pot and it's a fairly small percentage. the money from the foundation, this evening. and it's really under the bush administration that this global health piece went from being a tiny piece of the budget to over half of aids and malaria

. >>> and prime minister of haiti on a whirlwind tour through the bay area.ave that and more coming up. >>> welcome back, everyone. a very good wednesday morning to you. taking aqxd live look outry w yes. slick roadways out there. be careful. this is a live look at bay bridge toll plaza approach.p, folks getting an early st)áv on their way into the city of san francisco. the president and first lady will visit thei] grave side of president john f. kennedy.Ñi there was a moment oft( violenc inth$rjjju of the 35th presiden. friday marks 50 years since president kennedy wase1w3 assassinated in dallas. >>> mountain view's computertú o history museum getting a blast from the pastjf for its new exhibit this is cool. visitors getting a hands on experience with a recreation of a 1950s qibm demo lab. the lab accurately shows computer operations fromÑi that including the use of pun keyw3 cards and tape drives.çólp we've come a long way,fá baby, with ipads. museumq volunteers took a decad to bring the computers- to life which are nearly 50 years old. saw thatqlr apple

devastates haiti. her contacts, michelle helped organize the largest earthquake effort in the bay area. it spurred her on to tackle one of their country's biggest issues. >> energy is a huge problem. only one in eight people have any access to electricity so without any access to electricity, you are locked in grinding poverty. this is a slowly lar generator 1.5-kilowatt solargen rater array and that equipment is designed to charge portable battery packs. >> reporter: each generator placed in aville large could charge and recharge 100 battery packs. each portable pack can charge cell phones and light a home for five to seven days before charging. that's 100 homes of at a cost of just $6 a month when an average haitian family spends now for kerosene. >> watching a child turn on a light bulb for the first time is an astonishing thing to witness. >> i think it's nothing short of miraculous to be honest. >> reporter: volunteer jennifer shedd marvels at the impact michelle has had. so far her nonprofit is o

the former p >>> a business trip to haiti changed the life of a woman in pacifica. >> that's right.and mother of three now dedicated to improving the lives of families by bringing clean energy and the home of -- hope of a brighter future. kate kelly introduces us to this week's jefferson award winner. >> the property is so extraordinary, it just doesn't seem possible. >> reporter: michelle couldn't believe her eyes when she visited rural haiti for the first time in 2009. >> there was something inside of me that said you have to do something. let's do something. >> reporter: so from her home in pacifica she started a small sustainable buy oh fuel -- biofuel program to help farmers but that was the beginning. >> we begin tonight with breaking news, a major earthquake hit the country of haiti. >> reporter: january 2010, a major earthquake devastates haiti, using her contacts, michelle helped organize the largest earthquake effort in the bay area and -- tackle one of that country's biggest issue. >> energy a huge problem. only one in eight people have any access to electricity. without

magnitude of this effort, a journalist and author who has covered zones including extensive work in haiti during the 2010 earthquake. joining us from north carolina. as i am watching particularly the coverage of this story, from other broadcasters, and the sense i get, is that the real relief effort is now. fully underway with the arrival in force of the americans is that your sense. >> well, it is hard to say, i'm not there. and that is one of the really important things to touch on, gauze every disaster is different. but very often, the response is the expectations we have coming into the disas fresh the outside is the same. and the worst part about that is the expectations we have from the outside are often very very wrong. >> so let's talk about that, the expectation is that the call vary is going to roll in, and you can take a horrible situation, like in haiti, in the philippines and that you can get aid on the ground almost at the blink of an eye, snap of a finger, and it just doesn't work out that way, does it. >> no. and the other thing is often the wrong perceptions is the people

take the haiti earthquake you mentioned, a very important event, but with no real major open digs that came immediately in its wake, people know there was a cholera epidemic, but it was divorce brad the earthquake itself. we know after these natural disasters although the risk is appreciable, in fact, open digs of infectious diseases don't usually occur. proslideing these basic requirements of life, and restoring the infrastructure, we can bring the situation to relatively normal in the acute faze. that's not to say there aren't longer term consequences. philippine government people will suver from post traumatic stress syndrome for example. >> final thoughts as we wrap this up, what do we need to do going forward? >> we need to get on the ground, provide the basics. make sure we are getting information systems set up so that we can detect the occurrence of p adverse health events and respond to them. and starting now we need to look forward to the future to rebuilding the system, together with the philippines with doctors, nurses health professionals on the ground, and providing peopl

nancy, i saw you in haiti after the earthquake and i've seen you go to other disasters. but the scale of this is so terrifying. an island nation where we don't even know who is not getting any help at all and where refugees and the homeless have no escape route. >> that's right. i keep thinking, a little like katrina because of the water, a lot like haiti by the sheer devastation. but it's impossible to get a body count. when the local official tossed out 10,000 people, the international press just sort of jumped on it because we like numbers we can wrap in tidy boxes. but when you have a nation made up of 7,000 islands, as we flew over in a chopper you can see one house, villages of three or four. it's easy to put your intellectual capital in a place like tacloban. the reality is we don't know who is missing and who is dead because the storm surge affected so many people. when you see from the air the sheer width of it all is what stunned me. it's like a giant eggbeater came out of the sky and whipped trees, animals, water, this big soup of humanity and spit it out. it'

cholera outbreaks in haiti have killed thousands. just a few drops can be deadly.ers live in this mud-and-thatch house. they sleep on the dirt floor. life is incredibly harsh. but violette's biggest worry is food. >> [ crying ] >> announcer: this week, the girls have already gone three days without eating anything. >> [ speaking native language ] >> interpreter: today, i have nothing. i don't know what i'm going to give them tonight. if it's rice, if it's sorghum, if it's corn, only god knows. i have nothing. i have no idea what i'm going to feed them. i feel like it's my wound inside because of the pain of knowing i can't give them anything. >> announcer: esther's hair is orange, a sign of severe malnutrition. she suffers from parasites and worms. constant sickness has stunted her growth. at 6, she's about the size of a 3-year-old. she's never been to a doctor. [ rooster crows ] to forget the pain of hunger, esther escapes to her secret hideaway, a patch of shade under an old tarp at the side of her house. here, she becomes a little princess in a play world. >> [

for young children in developing countries one only needs to look back to two thousand and ten when haiti experienced a massive cholera outbreak after un peacekeepers dump human waste in the country's main tributary nearly nine thousand people died as a result and the cholera is now spread to surrounding nations ironically world toilet day is a u.n. right. ignited that event even though the organization has still not accepted responsibility for its role in haiti's cholera outbreak the issue is still as important as ever in fact in the aftermath of typhoon haiyan in the philippines the main concern is the destruction of sanitation infrastructure and a lack of adequate bathroom to so.

for young children in developing countries one only needs to look back to two thousand and ten when haiti experienced a massive cholera outbreak after un peacekeepers dump human waste in the country's main tributary nearly nine thousand people died as a result and the cholera has now spread to surrounding nations ironically world toilet day is a u.n. recognized investment even though the organization is still not accepted responsibility for its role in haiti's cholera outbreak. the issue is still as important as ever in fact in the aftermath of typhoon haiyan in the philippines main concern is the destruction of sanitation infrastructure and a lack of adequate bathroom facilities for thousands of people unfortunately the taboo surrounding this topic is widespread but the more time we spend skirting around the issue the more people will die every day from sanitation deprivation so the next time you're on the john consider these facts and don't bring the issue.

we saw it in pakistan, haiti, here and other places, including japan, of course a very close ally. this is a graphic example of imagine a world without an engaged united states. this response effort would not be at the stage it's at right now. it's obviously the right thing to do, but calls attention to how important we remain engaged not just in this region but around the world. thank you both for your service. >> senator rubio, thank you for your comments. senator flake. >> with regard to chinese involvement, there are also issues they have disputes with philippines in the south china sea. how much has that played, do you think, in their inability or unwillingness to help out? >> senator, it's a good question. the disputes between china and the philippines over maritime boundaries in particular is well known. i don't want to try to speak for the chinese government because i don't know how much that affected their response. certainly the disputes have been getting a lot of attention and something we pay a lot of attention to, as well. >> we heard mostly about the efforts in taclab

a major earthquake has hit the country of haiti. >> january 2010, a major earthquake devastates haiti. using her contacts, michelle helped organize the largest earthquake effort in the bay area, and it spurred her on to tackle one of the countries biggest issues. >> only one in eight people have any access to electricity. without any access to electricity, you are locked in grinding poverty. >> at a recent event, she showed off the centerpiece of her sustainable energy solution. >> it's a solar generator. it's a 1.5 kilowatts solar array. that equipment is designed to charge portable battery packs. >> it's generate current charge and recharge 100 portable battery packs. >> the battery pack gets carried in. we plug it in, recharge it. >> each portable pack can charge cell phones and light at home for five to seven days before recharging. that's 100 homes the cost of just $6 per month when an average family spends now for kerosene. >> watching a child turn on a light bulb for the first time. it is an astonishing thing to witness. i think it's nothing short of miraculous, to be honest. >

. >>> plus tech support for haiti. we'll tell you why the prime minister of that country is coming to silicon valley instead of capitol hill looking for help. > >>> looking through the fog overlooking san francisco. >>> and down to the south bay, much clearer look over san jose, as the colors come into picture. christina will talk about all that weather coming your way. mike has your roads in a matter of minutes on "today in the bay." >>> honoring president john f. kennedy nearly 50 years after his assassination. we'll tell you how the obamas and the clintons both are paying tribute to his lasting legacy. >>> plus here comes the rain again. all over the bay area as we give you a live look at san jose. we'll tell you where you might want to start up the windshield wipers. >>> and a live look at opening bell. that's at the new york stock exchange. we also flip you over to the nasdaq as well. advanced energy ringing in your day on this wednesday, november 20th. this is "today in the bay." >>> the time now is 6:30. thanks