in jacmel the beaches are not exactly pristine. it's a chance to be part of the lives of people like samson who hope to draw surfers to these waves and hope to make tourism grow. >> i would love there to be haitian representation in the surfing circuit. once they announce yeah, this kid is from haiti and's ripping it, people go, haiti surfing and the whole industry will pay attention. >> surf haiti remains a small project, and they hope that that will soon change. al jazeera jacmel, haiti. >> so this is the scene live in washington, d.c. at the moment. just by the white house. respecting a statement from president obama shortly. we'll bring that to you shortly as it gets under way. patty, i guess you could say we've got two big international stories. you have the downed malaysian airlining, and then you have palestinians being killed, what are we expecting to hear from obama. >> reporter: the white house is saying that the president will come out and make a statement on ukraine. i want to preface that usually when the president mak