it will make it even tougher for this country to recover now. >> tom forman walking us through it hereing from past disaster in haiti, this rescue operation will be slow. their government is not equipped to handle this disaster. cnn's david mattingly saw this firsthand during a much, much smaller disaster that happened back in 2008. listen to this. >> listen to these reports coming in. i can't tell you how distressing it is to hear this, because we can't overstate how vulnerable port-au-prince is to a natural disaster like this. you have so many shanty towns around port-au-prince built up hillsides. very shoddy construction. the government does not have any kind of ability to police any sort of building codes. when i was there in 2008, we were looking at a single school that collapsed because the concrete was too brittle and there was not enough steel reinforcement in that. in that single building collapse 90 children were killed and 150 others escaped, many with cuts and broken bones. in terms of a rescue effort, the government was not able to get in there except for bare manpower, go