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medical things in port-au-prince. and we have been working with bigger subsidies at the two places for the victims. but the emergencies is almost over so we close down the clinic in port-au-prince and just recently we closed down another medical clinic and then we started. we have started more health services projects. according to our data obtained by the clinic, there is so many diseases, skin diseases, venereal diseases, diarrhea. so if we could improve the water situation in camps and the community, we could prevent those diseases. therefore, we have now switched our position to more preventive health services. >> now, you talked about the long-term issues that you're moving on to now long term. they want to go back to their original places but unfortunately their houses are still collapsed and no recovery at all. therefore, the relocation issue from camps back to their house and employment issues. the jobless state of haiti is very high, even before the earthquake, more than 70%. >> that is before? >> that is bef
medical things in port-au-prince. and we have been working with bigger subsidies at the two places for the victims. but the emergencies is almost over so we close down the clinic in port-au-prince and just recently we closed down another medical clinic and then we started. we have started more health services projects. according to our data obtained by the clinic, there is so many diseases, skin diseases, venereal diseases, diarrhea. so if we could improve the water situation in camps and the...
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every family in haiti has someone in port-au-prince. pastor began work minutes after the ground stopped shaking. >> ople were praying without knowing what hapned to their loved once. one of our endeavor was to help them locate their families much >> madthe 6 hour journey from pignon to port-au-pnce 40 time following the quake helping feed people and fin loved once he grew his female by 2. these are brothers who lost their mom and dad in the quake. >> rendly of abraham you don't know that you are blessed unless the lord used to you to be a blessing. he blessed his country from adopting abandoned children and grow his churches to 42 churches in the most remost areas of greater pign and opening 20 schools much >> the lord helped me connect. called me to -- to reach out. >> deuteronomy the scripture speaks of one shaping a thousand and 2 putting 10,000 to flight much in pignon there are 2 brothers working every day to change the lives upon thousands living in poverty. you ha met jesa. >> here in the building we have a computer lab. the >> m
every family in haiti has someone in port-au-prince. pastor began work minutes after the ground stopped shaking. >> ople were praying without knowing what hapned to their loved once. one of our endeavor was to help them locate their families much >> madthe 6 hour journey from pignon to port-au-pnce 40 time following the quake helping feed people and fin loved once he grew his female by 2. these are brothers who lost their mom and dad in the quake. >> rendly of abraham you...
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ray suarez has returned to the heavily damaged capital port-au-prince. here is the first of his week- long series of reports on the situation in haiti, six months after the quake. >> suarez: in port-au-prince, deacon instruction comes before reconstruction. hundreds of thousands of cubic yards of rubble have been cleared from building lots and streets , yet shattered buildings still stand in every direction. when the tremors stopped, this metropolitan area had been shaken to pieces. an estimated 300,000 lives ended. tens of thousands of buildings destroyed. untold numbers injured. 060,000 people fled to the rest of the country. more than a million people are homeless in the haitian capital. more than a million. imagine putting the entire population of dallas out on the streets. it's the most visible sign of the work that remains to be done. >> there are clear plans, clear targets now. we need the resources. >> suarez: a uniteded nations deputy special representative in haiti. >> when you think about a million-and-a-half people in camps, while there has b
ray suarez has returned to the heavily damaged capital port-au-prince. here is the first of his week- long series of reports on the situation in haiti, six months after the quake. >> suarez: in port-au-prince, deacon instruction comes before reconstruction. hundreds of thousands of cubic yards of rubble have been cleared from building lots and streets , yet shattered buildings still stand in every direction. when the tremors stopped, this metropolitan area had been shaken to pieces. an...
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sanjay gupta are in port-au-prince tonight. they have seen a lot over the past six months and they join us for their perspectives. hi, guys, thanks for joining us. anderson, let's start with you. how does it look? >> look a lot like six months ago, to be honest, which is not to say hasn't been progress n fairness to the folks working here the last six months there has been no large, major outbreak of disease a major concern, which sanjay can speak to better than i can, no civil unrest and obviously, many, many people's lives were saved and had their lives improved with the hundreds of millions of dollars had been donated by many americans and people around the world that is the progress but not really progress you see. and what you do see are just communities filled with rubble, which is pretty much what we saw six months ago. the tent cities, the one right behind us, right in front of the presidential palace, those are all still there, more than 1300, more than 1.6 million people still living in those tent cities and no clear
sanjay gupta are in port-au-prince tonight. they have seen a lot over the past six months and they join us for their perspectives. hi, guys, thanks for joining us. anderson, let's start with you. how does it look? >> look a lot like six months ago, to be honest, which is not to say hasn't been progress n fairness to the folks working here the last six months there has been no large, major outbreak of disease a major concern, which sanjay can speak to better than i can, no civil unrest and...
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when love was there is port-au-prince and then there are areas outside port-au-prince because we haveomewhere between 400 to 600,000 people migrated outside of port-au-prince. the present different challenges but to start with port-au-prince what we as the international community to do is help the government to build a master plan. the need to have a vision of what they want port-au-prince to look like. where do they see the residential mer redds? there are some camps in neighborhoods that are viable and areas for new settlements and there are others that are not because of te terrain. the need to be this kind of master decisions made. there are other key issues that have to be booked through. one of them i mentioned and others mentioned as rubble removal. we need to help them accelerate the rebel removal in a robust way and their needs to be planning to do that which includes things such as increased number of disposal sites. ere's one major disposal site and that is a significant impediment. the roads used for normal traffic are being used for rebel removal and we need to help them
when love was there is port-au-prince and then there are areas outside port-au-prince because we haveomewhere between 400 to 600,000 people migrated outside of port-au-prince. the present different challenges but to start with port-au-prince what we as the international community to do is help the government to build a master plan. the need to have a vision of what they want port-au-prince to look like. where do they see the residential mer redds? there are some camps in neighborhoods that are...
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at one level there is port-au- prince and areas outside port- au-prince. we had 600,000 people migrate outside port-au-prince. they present different challenges. i think what we as the international community needs to do is help the government develop a master plan. they need to have a vision of what they want port-au-prince to look like. there are some camps in areas that are potentially viable as areas for new settlements and other places that are not because of the terrain. the need to be master planning decisions made. there are other key issues that need to be walked through. one i mentioned, and others have mentioned, is rubble removal. we need to accelerate rubble removal in a robust way. there needs to be planning to do that, which includes an increased number of disposal sites. there is one major disposal site, and that is an impediment. roads that were being used for traffic are being used for rubble removal. we need to help them plan increased numbers of roads. a network of crushers' around the city. so you can reduce the amount that is being ph
at one level there is port-au- prince and areas outside port- au-prince. we had 600,000 people migrate outside port-au-prince. they present different challenges. i think what we as the international community needs to do is help the government develop a master plan. they need to have a vision of what they want port-au-prince to look like. there are some camps in areas that are potentially viable as areas for new settlements and other places that are not because of the terrain. the need to be...
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we have to find a way to bring back job creation to port-au-prince.ou take a situation, over 700,000 people in one area. now, job creation is a problem. the recent job creation is a problem because you've never had a stable government. why would a business group come in and say, man, okay. we'll spend $100 million in port-au-prince. we believe this place is the future. so the thing about it is, unless you come up with job creation, then you are always going to have the same problem in haiti, which falls on the second aspect. and the second aspect of job creation is charity and business development. and when we say charity, we don't mean like, bringing us food this week. we saying, charity in the sengs of sense of using the charity as micromanagement. where you're actually giving people jobs. where they're not getting it for free. but at the same time, you're actually developing a country. >> let me take you as we wrap up back to music and i asked you what you wanted to do on the building side, the philanthropic side. what do you want to do musically w
we have to find a way to bring back job creation to port-au-prince.ou take a situation, over 700,000 people in one area. now, job creation is a problem. the recent job creation is a problem because you've never had a stable government. why would a business group come in and say, man, okay. we'll spend $100 million in port-au-prince. we believe this place is the future. so the thing about it is, unless you come up with job creation, then you are always going to have the same problem in haiti,...
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john lapook, cbs news, port- au-prince, haiti. >> mitchell: and the "cbs evening news" continues after a break. a completely blocked artery, >> mitchell: it has been another bloody weekend in mexico. this time 17 are dead after an ambush, and once again police say mexico's violent drug war is to blame. bill whitaker has more. >> reporter: even in a country grown almost numb to drug violence, this was shocking, a massacre at party in the northern mexico city of torreon. witnesses say gunmen broke down the door and opened fire, killing 17 partygoers, including young people and women, and wounding at least 18 others-- this on the heels of a massive car bomb explosion thursday that killed three people, including a police officer and a medical technician, on the streets of juarez, just across the border from el paso, texas. investigators believe it was remotely detonated with a cell phone, the first time in mexico's bloody drug war that drug cartel gangsters have used a car bomb, a device usually associated with baghdad or kabul. more than 25,000 people have experienced drug violence across
john lapook, cbs news, port- au-prince, haiti. >> mitchell: and the "cbs evening news" continues after a break. a completely blocked artery, >> mitchell: it has been another bloody weekend in mexico. this time 17 are dead after an ambush, and once again police say mexico's violent drug war is to blame. bill whitaker has more. >> reporter: even in a country grown almost numb to drug violence, this was shocking, a massacre at party in the northern mexico city of...
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port-au-prince, devastated city. but i could find great and intact houses with chefs and swimming pools and in every one of them lives an n.g.o. and that's where they're living and that's... >> rose: you're living in a camp with... in a tent. >> yeah, which is not to simply say because you're living comfortably and you have time to organize your office space, because some of them are very effective. but it is to they there is an entrenched culture. and it feeds itself in supporting its donorships' eye and its grantors, the grantor being in particular u.s.a.i.d. lack of presence. because for one thing, both in the n.g.o.s and... and i have some very helpful contacts in u.s.a.i.d. and i think that dr. shaw is a formidable guy who again, this is a very new job and emergency there. i'm very optimistic about what u.s.a.i.d. will do. but to date one of the problems is rotations. just as n.g.o.s are developing relationships with the on-site people from u.s.a.i.d., just as they're developing relationships with each other, bo
port-au-prince, devastated city. but i could find great and intact houses with chefs and swimming pools and in every one of them lives an n.g.o. and that's where they're living and that's... >> rose: you're living in a camp with... in a tent. >> yeah, which is not to simply say because you're living comfortably and you have time to organize your office space, because some of them are very effective. but it is to they there is an entrenched culture. and it feeds itself in supporting...
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massive earthquake devastated haiti, killing nearly 300,000 people and laying waste to the capital, port-au-princethe picture remains bleak for the island nation. only 2% of the rubble has been cleared. plagued by corruption and a weak government. relief camps have swelled. 1.6 million people are living under plastic tarps or in tents. >>> and it's fiesta time in spain. from madrid to barcelona, spaniards took to the streets to celebrate spain's first world cup championship, defeating holland 1-0 to take the title. for >>> well, for a lot us, the need to fit "in" with a group can often make you feel left out. but cliques don't have to complicate your life. felipe has the story. >> reporter: let's face it, we all look for friends who like the same things we're into. it's when certain groups of friends become "cliques" that problems start. >> most cliques flaunt their exclusivity to others by not allowing others to participate in it. >> cliques can be bad because they're kind of exclusive. >> i'd say a cli of friends who can be sometimes exclusive. >> exclusive. >> exclusive. >> exclusive. >> some c
massive earthquake devastated haiti, killing nearly 300,000 people and laying waste to the capital, port-au-princethe picture remains bleak for the island nation. only 2% of the rubble has been cleared. plagued by corruption and a weak government. relief camps have swelled. 1.6 million people are living under plastic tarps or in tents. >>> and it's fiesta time in spain. from madrid to barcelona, spaniards took to the streets to celebrate spain's first world cup championship, defeating...
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when we arrived in january, the good samaritan orphanage outside port-au-prince was overwhelmed.even before the earthquake, orphanages like this were common, because desperate families often feel forced to abandon their children to the care of others. but, now, new arrivals were pouring in. we found moise vaval and joe knittig of the global orphan project as they rushed food and tents to desperate orphanages. >> joe knittig: one of them, when we showed up the first time, had one cup of flour, and the children were asking their pastor, the caretaker, whether they were going to die. >> pelley: they had one container of flour for how many? >> knittig: not a container, a cup. >> pelley: at this children's home, when the quake hit, the kids just happened to be in a prayer service under this mango tree. their building crumbled. global orphan discovered the children... >> knittig: we're really excited to have you come with us. >> pelley: ...loaded up the survivors, and checked them into an emergency camp that it's set up outside the capital. moise vaval is global orphan's country direct
when we arrived in january, the good samaritan orphanage outside port-au-prince was overwhelmed.even before the earthquake, orphanages like this were common, because desperate families often feel forced to abandon their children to the care of others. but, now, new arrivals were pouring in. we found moise vaval and joe knittig of the global orphan project as they rushed food and tents to desperate orphanages. >> joe knittig: one of them, when we showed up the first time, had one cup of...
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we have $20 million cubic meters of rubble in port-au-prince. removing them will cost $1.5 billion. in the first phase we estimate to remove... we'll be removing two million cubic meters. that is of course $120 million. you can see that the $35 million that we have seen cannot perform a job that would cost $120 million. when the clean-up phase will be over, then we'll have to start building... rebuilding the roads. we'll have some engineering work to do. we'll have to be building shelters. this will cost a lot of money. however we did launch the operation. we hope that the interim commission will take over as soon as possible. >> suarez: mr. president, you make the point that the government of haiti did not receive the money from individual donors around the world. but that money did go to organizations that are interested in helping here. will they be paying part of the costs of clearing your streets, of resettling people from the camps? can you access that money for the purposes that you feel need to go ahead with the reconstruction? >> the government issues $25 million. now the n
we have $20 million cubic meters of rubble in port-au-prince. removing them will cost $1.5 billion. in the first phase we estimate to remove... we'll be removing two million cubic meters. that is of course $120 million. you can see that the $35 million that we have seen cannot perform a job that would cost $120 million. when the clean-up phase will be over, then we'll have to start building... rebuilding the roads. we'll have some engineering work to do. we'll have to be building shelters. this...
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there has been rumored that he might enter the presidential contest is all made or near port-au-prince raising money through his foundation and purges debated in the earthquake relief fund as well. >> back with more headlines in a moment latest news making stories a live picture of a 80 headed towards san mateo bridge configurations maybe it's causing confusion we have right flights in the distance with full details of a live report flights in the distance with full details of a live report with george d internet from at&t, you can connect to the internet at blazing fast speeds. wow, look at that! so you can go online and check out the news, or you can just catch up with old friends -- hey buddy. you can download videos and -- wow, that was fast. you can do it all from the comfort of home. so, as you can see, it's a -- whoa. i'm gonna just go grab a sandwich. [ male announcer ] introducing our fastest internet with speeds up to twenty four megabits per second. switch to high speed internet from at&t and get one-hundred dollars back via promotion card. switch to high speed internet from
there has been rumored that he might enter the presidential contest is all made or near port-au-prince raising money through his foundation and purges debated in the earthquake relief fund as well. >> back with more headlines in a moment latest news making stories a live picture of a 80 headed towards san mateo bridge configurations maybe it's causing confusion we have right flights in the distance with full details of a live report flights in the distance with full details of a live...
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. >> reporter: when port-au-prince began to fall on its three million people, thousands were crushed by collapsing ceilings and falling walls. and thousands who didn't die, must now learn to navigate a broken city, missing a foot or a leg. these haitians must make their living in a city that runs on manual labor with just one hand, arm. it is estimated that up to 4,000 people underwent emergency amputations after the january 12th earthquake in haiti. and while six months have passed since the devastating event, the journey for this newly disabled population is in some cases only just beginning. adults are learning again how to do what they've known longer than anything else to walk. and children, who all need to keep replacing their prosthetics throughout their growing years, are getting back the futures almost stolen by falling cinder block. >> ( translated ): i would like to go back to school so i can finish education and become a nurse. >> reporter: 13-year-old monica paul is back for another fitting. she was trapped in the rubble of her home for a day. she had been washing dishes
. >> reporter: when port-au-prince began to fall on its three million people, thousands were crushed by collapsing ceilings and falling walls. and thousands who didn't die, must now learn to navigate a broken city, missing a foot or a leg. these haitians must make their living in a city that runs on manual labor with just one hand, arm. it is estimated that up to 4,000 people underwent emergency amputations after the january 12th earthquake in haiti. and while six months have passed since...
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. >> reporter: doctors without borders runs a vast field hospital in port-au-prince. there psychologist marie treats children at risk or already exhibiting mental health problems. they've survived loss of parents and siblings, homelessness, trauma, injury and marie is pushing back against their terrible sadness. >> ( translated ): what we try to tell them is, this has already happened, and they still have their life, and so that's what they need to be grateful for need and so we try to encourage them to see it that way, and be grateful for it, as much as possible. there is no way to go back. there is no way to change, so we try to do our best to give them strength. >> reporter: the children are getting a variety of what's called psycho-social treatment. sometimes, it's nothing more complicated than getting those who need the help away from the camps and clinics as mercy corps did recently, to a soccer stadium, to be entertained by a popular disc jockey to play the haitian version of simon says to run and dance, to just act like a kid. >> psychology is all about balanc
. >> reporter: doctors without borders runs a vast field hospital in port-au-prince. there psychologist marie treats children at risk or already exhibiting mental health problems. they've survived loss of parents and siblings, homelessness, trauma, injury and marie is pushing back against their terrible sadness. >> ( translated ): what we try to tell them is, this has already happened, and they still have their life, and so that's what they need to be grateful for need and so we try...