has some steps been taken toward building a different kind of port-au-prince, one that wouldn't kill its own citizens when the earth starts to shake again as it will some day? >> i think some steps have been made and i am not as familiar as i should be with what is going on in terms of urban reconstruction. steps have been made, for example, new building codes promulgated, commitments have been made for financing, safer construction. some construction actually has happened in port-au-prince, some buildings have been rebuilt or raised and are building rebuilt now. in terms of the urban planning that a lot of people dreamed of that is a safer city, a cities that's less congested that has proper water systems and security, that hasn't come to pass yet. and i think part of what also needs to happen is, i mean how do you, you said it very well. people when they don't have help rebuilding their homes, they're going to try and do it themselves. and i think a lot of those who have moved out of the tented cities that hit maybe 1.3 million and are now down to 650,000 people, a lot of those peo

it has been almost a year and a half since the earthquake that devastated haiti's capitol, port-au-prince. haitian struggle to rebuild their lives, a unique television show, la boone nouvelle is giving them a sense of hope. stan jeter reports from port-au-prince. >> reporter: joel trimble has offered haitians a unique tv recipe for the past 6 years, part travel log, part food show, spiritual counsel and encouragement. >> i love the haitian people and love to minister the gospel. i want to go where the people are and show them the beauty of their nation. >> show has built a strong audience around haiti and haitian communities overseas. the most popular feature is the food segment. >> they love to watch my reaction, a white person eating their food. >> program takes viewers to a different part of the country every week. its travel with a purpose and antidote to all the bad news about haiti. >> could be the clinic, hospital, coffee or mango exportation. we show them the beauty of their country, positive story around something taking place and do a documentary, a travel-channel type of format

first heard this, you know port-au-prince is one of the most fgileities everywhere. >> every year when there's a bad rainstorm there are casualties. so it's a very crowded... everybody knows w crowded it is. it's also on a sep mountainside that ru dn from... right into the water. so it's fragile on the... in the st of seass and as erosion continues in haiti it becomes moreulnerable to ecological... to mudslides and floods. >> rose: what kind of natial guard nation w there between organizations? >> it was difficult. and some of that difficulty was borne of, again, telecommunications system was out, the power grid. so just the logistics of communicating was not easy. and then again there's been a al profetionn haiti of non-governmental organizations, which is well known now. and as the... ashere's been chronic weakness in the public sector, in the government, the breach has been filled, the void has been fild to some extent by n.g.o.s. and that's, again, i'm part of that movement, that world of n.g.o.s. but we really have to do more to strengthen the public health and public education sy

maybe we worked together in haiti, i was part of the invasion in 1994, not at port-au-prince. i was in the separate brigade. you probably had just about as bad of food as we did too. i'm not a military policeman. don rider is a military policeman. i'm an infantryman, paratrooper, rangers, i came to police work quite by accident. i was in haiti, the first night that i was there. the marines that i was relieve had a firefight that killed 11 police and army guys. they all ran away. the marines left and said over to you. i found myself responsible for providing police for the second largest city in haiti. then two days later, my division commander called me up and said jim, restart the police force. i said, sir, i don't think we're ready yet. he said, no, no, just go find two guys that weren't that bad. and put them back on the streets. it was a complete disaster. the disaster that luckily led to meeting my wife, who was not in haiti at the time. that's a different story. maybe for afterwards. but from then, i went on to a little less involvement, but with a special police in bosn

and in terms of trying to bring some stability and development to a very troubled part of port-au-prince to look at where security was deployed and development resources really had an impact. i think those things working together can do it. >> anyone else? >> i have a comment briefly on the "can-do" approach and working in a note can do environment. trees certain extent, when you're working with the justice and security sector, you're dealing with people who do not want to change, or if they do want to change, it is difficult. they do not want to move forward. that is a reality. from my perspective, when i look at it from programming situations, i am such a firm believer of setting the landscape and achieving all but as possible. things do not move at the same rate. with the drought would is needed and come up with a strategy. it would all work out because everyone would work together and the strands would catch up. that is not reality. from a problematic standpoint, you figure or you can move. it is like an amoeba. why would we waste millions of dollars pouring that intra program were n