>> all right, thank you, paula newton. stay tuned to cnn. our dr. sanjay gupta is on his way to haty with a team and we'll be following this story next week as well. >>> still ahead, an american swimmer training for the olympics dies suddenly during an open-water race, and check out this video that we just got in from a cnn i-reporter in from texas where several tornadoes have touched down and caused significant damage. >>> and then what city do kids stand the best chance of getting the most halloween candy? well, no, it's not hershey, pennsylvania. we'll tell you straight ahead, and don't just sit there. we want you to be part of this show, part of the conversation. send us a message on twitter or facebook. cnn.com/don or check us out on foursquare as well. >>> let me check the top stories on cnn. a 26-year-old american swim star died today during the ten-kilometer marathon swimming world cup in the united arab emirates. fran crippen died during the last leg of the race and his body was recovered about two hours later. the university of virginia gr

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paula newton is at the capital on the phone. update us. know a big concern was trying to keep this from spreading to port-au-prince. has that been the case? >> the big concern is there are five cases of cholera within the capital. they're on medicine. doctors are now rushing to that region. the scene described a ed at the hospital still chaotic. 're hoping to turn around that situation in the next couple of days. the problem is if the infection reaches on the port-au-prince, they're still struggling with the aftermath of the earthquake, that the consequences in there will be disastrous. t.j.? >> all right. paula newton with the update for us near port-au-prince in haiti. thank you so much. >>> npr fires williams after he makes contentious remarks about muslims sparking a big debate about bigotry. ♪ >> have you heard this before? that's an art form in some churches. are you able to move it up? more importantly, can you do it? stick around on cnn this sunday morning. to do that so well. ♪ ♪ where'd you learn to do that so well. ♪ the new cad

our paula newton is there. the death toll, indeed, is climbing and cases have reached port-au-prince. paula? >> reporter: alarming for many officials here. i am at st. nicholas hospital in st. mark's. behind me still scenes of chaos, unfortunately, fred. i can tell you outside these gates people continually come every hour, they are hunched over, vomiting, they have diarrhea. some people already have been sick for two or three days. they come here to get care and every hour that level of care gets better and better. if we go back to the death cases, though, i was here touring the hospital with members of the cdc back home and they were saying to me that the death rate for this outbreak is going down so that is positive. the problem, fred, is that to try and contain this kind of epidemic or outbreak is going to be very difficult. the sanitary conditions were already not very high and in port-au-prince millions living in tent cities shoulder to shoulder it will be a huge challenge. right now, the u.s. government,

cnn's paula newton is about an hour north of there. paula, you are at ground zero, so to speak.t are you seeing? >> reporter: just to give you a snapshot of what's going on here, i mean, it's later in the day but people continue to arrive at the entrance to the hospital. fred, behind me they are supposed to be staying in an isolation area but the kind of medical area they are getting is still quite crude and improving, we should stress. we've seen many, many children, you know, lying very weak desperately with their parents trying to rehydrate them with those kits and with some ivs. now what they are trying to do on the larger scale is to be able to prepare the country just to make sure that they are prepared if there is a cholera outbreak in other areas. that means upgrading sanitation and telling people how to wash their hands and make sure they are drinking clean water and not to go into. some of the rivers around here which perhaps are now contaminated with cholera. fred? >> all right. paula newton, thanks so much from saint marc. the links between hormone replacement therap

cnn's paula newton is about an hour north of there in saint marc which is the epicenter of this cholerasources in place to go out and look for victims as opposed to waiting for cholera victims to come find help? >> what they have tried to do is actually get the word out to tell people, look, if you're vomiting, your diarrhea is severe you must come to a medical facility like this. having said that, they have more mobile health teams out there, but what they really want to do is to spread the word about sanitation, washing your hand and not using the water and the rivers here which are now most likely contaminated with cholera, and the other thing, fred, it's been the end of a very chaotic and long day here for everyone. they started to get some of this orange netting up behind me and that means isolating those patients that are being treated for cholera, and that is key. fred? >> so the majority of those who are coming down with cholera, are they children, or are they the more vulnerable older people? is there a real profile here? >> reporter: there isn't a profile, and the doctors say

paula newton is at a hospital being overcome by the sick and the dying. >> reporter: there is that chaotic scene outside. inside, we're on the grounds of the hospital here and people are lining up to get the treatment they need. they are feeling terrible. children down here are sprawled out in the open air just waiting for something, for someone to come and help them. there are many people here just lined up, we've spoken to many who haven't had care for several hours. the staff here are doing the best they can, but as you can see, people continue to line up. i want you to follow me into the t triage area. you can see people line up. they are starting to help them as our local staff here determine who is most ill and at risk and trying to get them rehydrated and perhaps antibioti antibiotics. >> all right. thank you so much for that. make sure you stick with cnn. we're going to follow that story throughout the week. >>> a 26-year-old american swimmer with six ncaa championship titles dies suddenly after a race overseas. after the break, i'll talk to his coach. >>> plus, a u.s. congressman

our international security correspondent paula newton is live in st. marc, haiti. ning. if they didn't get clean water sources to people, this would happen. >> absolutely, kiran. and what's so puzzling is it happened in ten months after the earthquake in a region that wasn't hit by the earthquake. but what happened, though, this country all over the country, the water resources are under such strain that health experts have said they've been warning for months it was still a risk. and i'm at the hospital here this morning in st. marc. and things are much calmer. when we left yesterday, they were still carrying bodies to the morgue, a lineup outside the hospital, the triage was in real chaos. that seems to be the anecdotal evidence i can give you from experts who say fewer cases and perhaps a lower death rate, which is key here. because people need to know how to prevent cholera. and if they get it, they need to know to get care urgently. people say, look, once the bug is here, you know, cholera is here to stay. and this will be something that haiti will deal with. t

paula newton was at st. nicholas hospital. what's the risk to the capital of port-au-prince that this could spread there? >> reporter: well, the risk is there. five people from this area are nowport-au-prince. there are no signs that cholera has spread to port-au-prince. considering what's happened here at the hospital i'm at where you had this hospital overwhelmed, people coming who were violently ill and then unfortunately 253 dying, the good news here is that the death rate is coming down. the challenge, you know, the faces this country is how now that cholera is here after 50 years of being absent, how do they deal with it, get sanitary conditions up in terms of washing hands, clean water, using clean water sources. that is the challenge. they are going to do not make sure that that cholera does not spread to the capital. we have more than a million people living out in the open and things there in terms of diseases can spread quickly. >> so what's the next big challenge in fighting this outbreak you think, paula? >> repor

paula newton takes us to the hort of this latest crisis. >> reporter: while the deathle to has rison, so have the confirmed cases, it's interesting that authorities are showing cautious optimism that the situation has stabilized. it's difficult to see from the chaos behind me here in saint nicholas hospital in saint marc. more and more, people are receiving care more quickly and people are beginning to get the word out that if you have severe diarrhea and vomiting, you need to come to these health facilities, and, also, that public health campaign, people being told to wash their hands, make sure they're happens drinking clean water, watch where they are going in terms of using facilities and also staying away from the river in this area which is almost certainly contaminated with cholera. going to port-au-prince, they have taken measures to come up with hand-cleaning stations, to really try and take the level of hygiene up a notch as difficult as that is with about 1 million people living in the open in tent cities but they have isolation tents. they got them up here really only earl