our first show as the reflectors is in port-au-prince and the central platteau in haiti and going playic in haiti was really transform difficult, kind of made us want to make this record. >> stephen: your wife is from haiti. >> yeah. >> stephen: how is haiti doing right now? >> it's-- there's a lot of great things happening. port-au-prince is probably another 50 years before it's really back, i honestly think it's 50 years before it is back to where it was. but a lot of the rest of the country has really been bouncing back and we were there for carnival a couple years ago. which is mind blowing. and it's supersafe and anyone could kind of go and it's one of the best carnivals in the world, in the south. >> stephen: you are kind of doing a little travel agent work now for haiti. >> travel to haiti. (cheers and applause) >> stephen: you guys support any charities down there. >> we do a lot with partners in health. paul farmer has been working there for 30 years and they're incredible organization. real heroes of ours. (applause) >> stephen: actually, you and paul have a physical resembla

she was born in port-au-prince. countrylex view of the is at the heart.t has been praised by reviewers , using words like intoxicating and compelling. i am always intoxicated and compelled when i have you on the program. it's good to have you back. your kids are fine? >> yes. tavis: and this novel the sea is as much a are as anybody or anybody else. the sea is such an important part of our history. it's how most of us got to this lostof the world, and we so many people. this continues. it is an incredible point of view with which to explore the environment. >> tell me about the story. whoseire is a little girl mother dies in childbirth, so her father is struggling with this decision, whether he should keep her with him or give her a way to a richer woman. decision,tory of the and it's also the story of the villa where they live and how they interact. >> you wrote part of this novel before the earthquake and the other part after? >> yes. >> how did that impact or not the writing? >> the earthquake happened in on a and the town is based real town where my m

>> it was in port au prince, and i guess, it seemed it was probably more of a lone wolf kind of thing. because it seemed it was not the size of explosion one would typically equate with a bigger organized action. but almost more frightening for that reason, because it -- it is that lone wolf thing that is the hardest for agencies to track and to intervene on ahead of time. so the next thing, though, while i was -- all of my musings about all of this going on was the very thing again you were talking about, was with everything that goes wrong, when you see the strength of people bonding together. when you -- you know, hear the stories of courage, of love in the families that were devastated. you do have a reminder that we -- you know, that there -- there was a thing that the poet laureate of india had written, every new child born proves that god is not discouraged of man. we have to find out we just don't have to be totally discouraged. and sadly, it is too often out of tragedy that we get that reminder. >> when you see what happened in boston, of course, it raises this whole issue of

moise metellus lives with his parents and brother in a poor suburb of port-au-prince.y lost everything when their house collapsed during the dest dest -- devastating earthquake. >> moise metellus's father works as a father. he teaches his boys religious songs and hopes jesus will answer their prayers. his mother, wechline, worries. this is why. >> he was injured in the earthquake, what happened? >> translation: the foot was badly damaged. the house collapsed on he and his brother. >> moise metellus was buried alive. one doctor said there was no need to amputate. a second director delivered the terrible news. >> translation: the white doctor's if we don't cut the foot off the child will die. they did on 18 january. >> it must have been terrible to see your son. there are some words that need to translation. >> translation: it was horrible. i looked at him for a moment. just a moment. it was so painful. i didn't want to foot cut off. >> she feared the physical pain her son was facing and the life-time of hardship. in haiti, when you miss a lime you are considered an out

. >>> thousands of people have taken to the streets of haiti's capital, port-au-prince. they are protesting the high cost of living and some protesters have clashed with police. the demonstrators chanted slogans, calling for more jobs and demanding that the president step down. things started out peacefully, but someone set fire to barricades near the presidential office building. the police responded with tear gas. >> translator: people don't have enough to eat. they can't send their children to school. the situation in the neighborhoods has become more serious under the current government. they just waste money. >> a magnitude 7 earthquake struck haiti three years ago. more than 200,000 people were killed. about 280,000 people still live in tents and makeshift shelters. >>> delegates at the united nations general assembly have chosen five countries as non-permanent members of the u.n. security council. the new members are nigeria, chad, lithuania and the council includes ten non-permanent members. the council also includes five permanent members. it will be the first t

port-au-prince got hammered. >> we are in one of the most famous places in north korea.>> live in boston where terrible violence and killing today at the annual marathon race here. >> this young man at 20 years old. i i told him to stay down. he's okay. the help is on the way right now. we want to help you. i pretty much stayed with him. because the scene what i was seeing on this young man, his legs were really tragic. >> who called who to come down here? >> we have done this. this is the third time. >> he did. this is his hometown. >> he called you? >> yeah. i said, sign me up. >> how did the call go? does the call from bush 41, how does that work? >> whatever he asks, i say yes. >> a call from roger, same thing. >> every time you call, he says yes? >> he's generous with his time? >> i'm a just say yes guy. >> we are live where police say a fiery stand off ended the hunt for christopher dorner, accused cop killer. police can't say for certain the body pulled from a burned cabin is his but they say the manhunt is over. >> four minutes after takeoff and then hell. live a

she was born in port-au-prince. countrylex view of the is at the heart.t has been praised by reviewers , using words like intoxicating and compelling. i am always intoxicated and compelled when i have you on the program. it's good to have you back. your kids are fine? >> yes. tavis: and this novel the sea is as much a are as anybody or anybody else. the sea is such an important part of our history. it's how most of us got to this lostof the world, and we so many people. this continues. it is an incredible point of view with which to explore the environment. >> tell me about the story. whoseire is a little girl mother dies in childbirth, so her father is struggling with this decision, whether he should keep her with him or give her a way to a richer woman. decision,tory of the and it's also the story of the villa where they live and how they interact. >> you wrote part of this novel before the earthquake and the other part after? >> yes. >> how did that impact or not the writing? >> the earthquake happened in on a and the town is based real town where my m

on a steamy day, our team meets her at the bustling port-au-prince airport. >> good to meet you!g business from home in seattle. years ago, the images of the earthquake seared her heart she jumped on a plan to help. she spent her days washing the feet of the weary fitting shoes for people who had none. a journey that would change three lives. >> i looked outside the bus window and locked eyes with ricksa, it locked. electricity that came through my body. i jumped up out of my seat and exclaimed i found my little girl. >> reporter: ruth surprised herself by this. she wasn't looking to become a mother. after months she decided to return to haiti to see the girls. they laughed together and played. [ laughing ] >> reporter: and they learned to trust her. she began the adoption process. taking seven trips to be with them over the next two years. the girls started to look forward to her week-long visits and overnight trips to her hotel. they told her they loved her. and she told them the same. but every time she left, they were left behind to wonder if their adoption could be believed.

in october 2010 haitians of port-au-prince gather outside of the nation's headquarters protesting againsthe renewing of the operation. >> it is for haitians. >> reporter: that ended in clashes with police. later that month cholera first appeared. something unseen in the region since the 19th century infecting thousands of people. they published lab results linking the cholera to south asia, not haiti. point to go foreign workers, riots lasted for days, leading to looting of warehouses. >> we're asking the removal of them, removal of them from wherever they are. it is not only an issue of cholera. they have to remove them from haiti. >> reporter: three years later haiti is still reeling from the outbreak. small tents act as makeshift hospitals in local villages. >> what we have in haiti cannot really cope with the demand. we know that it is a germ that if you drink unclean water you can get, and once you have it, you can die, if you don't have access to medical care. if we are able to provide clean water to our people, if we are able to give them sanitation, hygiene, to help our people, i'

back at their headquarters in downtown port-au-prince the fruits of the lawyers' painstaking labor is kept in a dusty store-room, still waiting for the day it will be used in court. >> these are all the case files in here? >> yes, this is the first five thousand filed. not only have we filled the form, they're notarized. they said "we received the complaints, we will give you an answer and respond in due time" - i don't know when the reasonable time will be. >> but it's been more than a year? >> more than a year, yes. >> and you've heard nothing? >> nothing, nothing. >> faced with the un's silence, the lawyers decided to expand the lawsuit, adding more names to the thousands who'd already filed a complaint. >> un have to respond. >> un must respond. they promote human rights. we will continue to fight. until they respond, we will file complaints. for all the people! the 2010 earthquake killed more than 220,000 people - those who lost their lives are remembered each year with dignitaries from around the world coming to pay their respects. but for those who've died - and continue to die

. >> thousands of demonstrators marched through the streets of port-au-prince on monday, picking september two marks the anniversary of the coup. many protesters are unhappy with how the current leader is running the government. >> the protest is to tell parliament to take responsibility. >> martelli has been dogged by allegations of -- firing tear gas at demonstrators after they veered off their approved route. support for aristide lend credence to the idea that he may try to return to the political arena. even if the constitution bars him from running for president in 2016, because he has already held that post twice, aristide could enter legislative elections, theoretically to be held later this year. >> this is president martelly. look at the proactive attitude, the way it affects people. >> aristide has been laying the groundwork for a political comeback for a file. he first reappeared on the scene two days before the runoff election in march 2011 all stop after eight years of exile in south africa. this past may, aristide testified in a court hearing concerning the assassination of j

there were scuffles with police and his supporters shot down several blocks of downtown port-au-princeg barricades it's not known exactly why andrÉ michelle was take then to custody on tuesday, however he is known for bringing corruption cases against the government and the president's family. >>> the instability in egypt is having a devastating effect on the country's tourism industry. visitor numbers fell by an estimated 80% after the july coup. bernard smith reports now from luxor. >> reporter: it's a tourist's dream. but luxor's nightmare. this is high season. the few visitors have got these ancient sites to themselves. >> it's nearly disaster, you know, looks here better than -- it's safer, you know, that moment of the year we are in season, we are in the beginning of the winter, and to see this is empty and a regular place for the tourists, it's absolutely something very very bad for us and our economy and for our future. >> reporter: on a normal day, thousands of people would be walking through the funeral temple of the queen. just two turned up while we were there. >> we was ve

from his village north of port-au-prince, they use hammers and chisels to sculpt scenes of haitian life>> this is my life. >> reporter: he's come to the market nine years in a row, and over that time, he and two other oil drum art i felts have made more than $200,000. the average wage in haiti is under $2 a day. it's that kind of success that has artists clamoring to hang their wares in this market. but the rules are strict. only about a third of the artists who apply are accepted. and don't just come here for the money. >> we are going to address costing and pricing. >> teach artists the business side of art, managing materials, shipping. >> thank you. and even teach marketing and tips on how on to export products. >> it's halfway there. >> i need price tags. >> reporter: spending much of her life growing up in the u.s. arch her family fled kandahar, afghanistan during the rug invasion. >> the political situation of the country for the last three and a half decades, and the environment -- but in the midst of that violence, women are creating beauty. >> reporter: their gift to the world

. >> reporter: few places this port-au-prince are accessible for the handicap.d therapist says the tragic earthquake could have a silver lining. >> a lot of people in the beginning before the earthquake they used to reject people with handy caps and after the earthquake they are starting to see them in another way. >> reporter: this is his new reality. every few months he'll travel to and from the city's downtown to get a new leg. so him it's like an answer to his prayers, the ones he sings about with his father, especially in places like haiti where the next steps are anything but certain. what has been absolutely critical for success if you ask the folks that work at any facility, they would say what has been key is putting all of the efforts into the hands of haitians. they would say the experts are there to train though haitians, they are there to take over the facility. and everything is done with an eye to leaving it all in hair haitian hands. >> it's so reassuring to see some money making a difference there in haiti. and we have watched your previous repo

the one-year-old and three-year- old were found about half an hour later on sweeney street in port-au-princend is described the scene. >> it seems like things like this all happen in our neighborhood so it's kind of a shock. . police described the suspect only as a thin caucasian female with short curly brown hair. they say she ran after ditching the car. for 34. and other headlines. fire crews battled a one alarm fire at a home in pleasant hill. the fire started just before 130 this morning on dole's courtnall lockwood lane. crew still remain on the scene since there are live power lines on the ground there were no injuries. no word on what caused the fire. pg&e is sworn in san bruno resident status no natural gas a day. but not to worry. the utility company is entering the gas at the intersection of the states in glenview drive street in east to be done so crews to work on a pipeline in that area. the cause of death of an america's cup sailor who died when his team's boat capsized has been released. 36 year-old andrew bart simpson died of blunt trauma with drowning. he was a member of the

thousands gathered in port-au-prince to challenge the cost of living. protesters approached the presidential grounds. the demonstration took place on a national holiday honouring haiti's founding father. coming up on sport - one of the nfl's best was on the national stage. we have more after this. >> millions of people around the world took cover as part of a major earthquake drill. nearly 10 million people in california were part of the exercise, designed to reduce earthquake deaths and improve rescue efforts. stephanie stanton has more. >> this is only a drill. a mock scenario played out in elementary schools of what might happen if a major earthquake strikes los angeles. emergency responders helped those injured in the quake. the drill is part of the global earthquake movement called the great shake out. injuries are fake, but the threat of an earthquake hitting los angeles is real. >> there could be many earthquakes of different sizes that can happen. over 300 faults with a magnitude six or greater. when the big one hits the earthquake simulators gi

from his village north of port-au-prince, they use hammers and chisels to sculpt scenes of haitian lifethis is my life. >> reporter: he's come to the market nine years in a row, and over that time, he and two other oil drum art i felts have made more than $200,000. the average wage in haiti is under $2 a day. it's that kind of success that has artists clamoring to hang their wares in this market. but the rules are strict. only about a third of the artists who apply are accepted. and don't just come here for the money. >> we are going to address costing and pricing. >> teach artists the business side of art, managing materials, shipping. >> thank you. and even teach marketing and tips on how on to export products. >> it's halfway there. >> i need price tags. >> reporter: spending much of her life growing up in the u.s. arch her family fled kandahar, afghanistan during the rug invasion. >> the political situation of the country for the last three and a half decades, and the environment -- but in the midst of that violence, women are creating beauty. >> reporter: their gift to the world wa

thousands of people rallied in port-au-prince, haiti to mark the 22nd anniversary of the first u.s.-backed ouster of them president aristide, haiti's first democratically elected leader. the current president is facing pressure to call long-delayed senate and municipal elections. a pair of hunger striking canadians jailed in egypt for over a month without charge spoken out for the first time about their ordeal. john grayson, a toronto filmmaker, and tarek loubani, a doctor, were arrested in cairo on august 16. they were slated to visit gaza were grayson was to film tarek loubani as e train emergency room doctors. in a statement smuggled out of their prison cell, grayson and tarek loubani said they were arrested after rushing to the scene of a mass shooting by state forces of supporters of ousted president morsi. grayson says he began filming the shootings aftermath while loubani treated some of the injured. they said they were then -- "arrested, searched, caged, question, interrogated, videotaped with the syrian terrorist, slapped, beam, ridiculed, hotbox, refused phone calls, strip

she was born in port-au-prince. countrylex view of the is at the heart.been praised by reviewers , using words like intoxicating and compelling. i am always intoxicated and compelled when i have you on the program. it's good to have you back. your kids are fine? >> yes. tavis: and this novel the sea is as much a are as anybody or anybody else. the sea is such an important part of our history. it's how most of us got to this lostof the world, and we so many people. this continues. it is an incredible point of view with which to explore the environment. >> tell me about the story. whoseire is a little girl mother dies in childbirth, so her father is struggling with this decision, whether he should keep her with him or give her a way to a richer woman. decision,tory of the and it's also the story of the villa where they live and how they interact. >> you wrote part of this novel before the earthquake and the other part after? >> yes. >> how did that impact or not the writing? >> the earthquake happened in on a and the town is based real town where my mother'