she is in pain. >> hang in there, janette. we're almost there. >> reporter: but within three hours of first hearing her voice, she emerges. >> 1, 2, 3. >> reporter: her first words thank you, god. and then an astonishing moment. (singing) >> reporter: the words of her song "don't be afraid of death." she told me she always thought she'd survived but she wondered why this had happened to her. did you think you would live, janette? did you think you would live? >> yes, why not? >> reporter: she is alive. for her husband it's a miracle. but her survival is the exception in a city of death. she drove away as if nothing had happened to see for herself the horror that had been hidden from her. >> suarez: transportation and distribution bottlenecks continue to choke the massive international aid effort. some 7,000 u.s. troops will be in country or offshore by this evening. the u.n. secretary-general asked the security council for additional police and peacekeepers to join the 9,000 already on the ground. their mission: to break up th