. >> arnie gundersen, i want to turn south for a moment to patrick elie, a pro-democracy activist in -au-prince, haiti. the death toll in haiti is the worst of any place right now as a result of the superstorm. patrick, welcome to "democracy now!" can you describe what has happened in haiti was to mark what are the effects of the storm? i'm going to see if we're able to get him on. we keep losing and through the show. >> it has been devastating, even though the eye of the storm did not go through haiti but dumped a lot of rain, especially on the western area in the southern peninsula. given the vulnerability of the haiti environment, it is greeted tremendous devastation -- created tremendous devastation. roads have been destroyed, whole villages have disappeared. it is a pretty serious situation. >> the storm left a trail of destruction in making its way to the eastern seaboard in the united states, already leaving jamaica, cuba, haiti, government officials reporting 65 storm related deaths across the caribbean, 51 in 80, which had three days of continuous rainfall that ended only on