From the BBC news radio this is a special edition of perspective. Earthquake in hate.
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Even before Tuesday's quake Cheney was struggling for those living in the poorest country in the western. -- life was already challenge now for those of us watching and from miles away.
For days voices have been heard coming from the rubble. The window for survival is closing and the chances for those still trapped being pulled out alive are dwindling. However time is also running out for those who lived through the nightmare. His aid workers scrambled to get food water and medical supplies to those so desperately in need. Over the next hour during this special edition of perspective will bring you the stories of survivors the stories of those who lost loved ones. And the responders doing all they can to help. Will reach out to our reporters on the ground in Porter prints and in the air -- what's left. We'll talk to our medical experts about the remaining chances for those buried in the debris and for those crying in need of help. But we begin with our Kate Snow in Puerto prints she takes us back to the moment the earth shook. Yeah.
The quake struck right before sundown on Tuesday seven point oh on the richter scale almost directly under the Haitian capital Port Au Prince. He hit without warning. And with devastating force.
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Reporter Christine Webb was in Haiti on a church retreat. Earth could still -- split it was. Unreal Bob coffee works for the Salvation Army who wasn't bad enough.
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People are losing everything they have and it's so sad Cindy -- Marty runs a seminary in Port Au Prince funded by the cross world mission.
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when the quake was all over the city of two million people was left in ruins buildings toppled the power out. And after the sunset the rescuers began yeah. And we spoke with -- merits of the American Red Cross via Skype.
It's extremely difficult to estimate on the scale the magnitude is just demands that earthquake. And and we've spent all day and night in this. In the streets com. Just trying to get assistance.
Their own medical facilities severely damaged Doctors Without Borders set up trauma centers in parking lots and on lawns treating hundreds of patients many with broken bones. Many with burns from cooking gas containers that exploded during the earthquake. The Red Cross has been helping Haitians for decades but they're offices were in ruins they improvised tending to their own wounded. As well as the communities. -- entire mountainsides. That communities have come down collapsed. Outside the capital city Cindy McMartin and her husband who run a small seminary of about a hundred students. Are on their own to deal with the tragedy. Two of the buildings on their small campus collapsed trapping several of their students.
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One of the first reporters to make it into the capital Port -- Prince was -- rest -- He arrived in the midst of aftershocks and it's clear from his voice he was not prepared for what he found.
This is -- dreadfully awful scene everywhere I have been around the city there are just hundreds of thousands of people on the street. Everyone is wandering aimlessly as they're afraid to get any under any type of structure whatsoever. And along the streets as I have driven. Body after body after body. -- some of them not cover. We rushed upon a couple of scenes where they were trying to pull people out of -- structure that collapsed on them these people were already at it and yet another scene. Where you can hear the voices of someone underneath the rubble even I yelled -- them -- whole ball in the hurt me and said I'm hungry young hungry. Desperate cry for help everywhere we have gone is the city in absolute chaos. This is -- city of course and a country where the crumbling infrastructure. In crumbling for years even decades but now with this. Tremendous major earthquake upon them is this city that is a tremendous need of help. We have come across this several people we have seen people. We have heard their cry we haven't been able to see them but it expand -- building that is. -- reduced from five stories and one you can hear their voices and you can hear them crying for help. And you can hear them making their desperately. And own my own. Asians are trying to rescue them and is -- much. Fruitless effort in many respects because there is no heavy equipment to help them out. Everyone seems to just be walking the street because they don't wanna get local or 1 o'clock every out. It is in and out of along. Everyone beginning to. Run wild in the street once again and there was another weird grammar. Another aftershock. Doesn't aftershock people are racing up billions right now. We have Trevor had an aftershock hit YouTube -- her right -- Cry you fear in the street from literally hundreds of thousands millions in the street. And then it suddenly calm after the after --
The hotel Montana used to be a four star hotel it has been destroyed but ABC's Dan Harris says some of those who were staying inside survived. Barely.
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When the building crumpled. Richard Santos and Jim belly and three other people were trapped in a space that was the three feet high by eight feet long by five feet wide.
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Compared to lead these survivors were lucky to of their fellow aid workers were pinned under debris at the ankles and in agony. One other American was stuck in an elevator shaft. So -- and Richard are as you might imagine thankful.
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Another survivor crystal growth spurt in Arizona State graduate student whose leg had to be amputated after her house crumbled. She is almost to call she describes her ordeal.
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And now for those left behind the challenge will be to keep going in some cases alone with very little family left. ABC's Eric a terse Ian Porter prints talk with a man named Joe O'Neill who made his way to the airports.
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Coming up. The good samaritans who became real life angels parents.
Waiting for word on their new children but next -- pictures -- on the streets supportive friends. These special edition of perspective earthquake in Haiti continues. After this. The images from Haiti are heartbreaking. Homes hospitals and schools such Troy. Family searching for loved ones perished trying to feed their children. But we can all do something. We can help the American Red Cross says it delivers the food water and medicine that can save lives. Donate ten dollars by texting Haiti to 90999. Visit Red Cross dot org or call 1800. Red Cross. Thanks for your help.
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From the BBC news radio. This is a special edition of prospective. Earthquake in -- here's ABC cherry -- Immediately after getting word of the year.
ABC's Aaron -- board the plane for the Dominican Republic. Landing Saturday may go into winding roads to the border the -- and eventually made it to the capital city of one of my.
ABC's -- ski joins me now. Parent cuisine.
It is grim and there is a sense of hopelessness on the faces of so many patients that you meet. In the streets here series many with -- else to go. Just walking aimlessly what's left of their belongings on their heads in and on their faces you get this sense of desperation. They are lacking food and water and medicine and and shelter and was nowhere else to go. They sort of filled the streets and in their past often. They encounter bodies so we have seen so many of them lying all over this city. Some art meet the lying in -- properly shrouded in white bed sheets and covered with cords. But others just -- haphazardly where the earthquake drop them. They are barely covered in rags and one wonders how soon these bodies are going to get picked up the stench. Through the city is is bearable only -- a mask and even then it's. It's it's pretty grim. You told the story of family members trying to bury some of the dead on the side of the -- are you seeing a lot of that. Syria it was so interesting when we ran into a group of men. Digging on on a hillside just enough in the bend of the road just off the side of the road that they hillside was strewn with trash. And it it certainly did not look like a cemetery but it's the only space these men could find and two families were actually fighting over the plots. There were two bodies laying right on the sidewalk one man said one of that the bodies was out of his mother. And he simply wanted to try and give her a proper burial and not let her be deposited into a mass grave.
You also told the story of what's going on at a gas station three women who were injured simply playing a piece of plywood one woman saying if you leave me here. I will die are those people getting the food and water and medical attention that they need.
They're not and and that is one of that the biggest needs here is these critically. Wounded people who have been pulled from the rubble. Thanks to -- to search and rescue efforts that are now under way. -- it does that worry is what happens to them if a search and rescue team from say Los Angeles or their facts or Miami. Pulls them out they have a better chance of getting some immediate medical attention. But in this case we saw three women get pulled out by a couple of guys from a from a house that had collapsed up the road. They were carried out on broken splintered pieces of plywood and simply plopped. And gas station parking lot and no one paid -- much attention one woman had a broken leg but there was no one around to help. And that the woman as you say -- told us that if he stayed there she she would die. There was just no one that seem to be able to. If you like you for the medical attention she clearly needed. ABC's caricatures in corporate stay safe. Thanks very.
For Americans with relatives in Haiti stories like that are chilling. The past several days have been unbearable for those who are here but whose families are there. ABC's juju Chang has more on the anguish for Haitian Americans -- slowly finding out what happened to those they love.
Watching the news -- grace love CC's two world crashed right there among the wreckage the family recognizes the home their grandfather built the once she spent her whole life saving -- when it's happened I think are I had lost everything all the pancake building used to be three stories that house fifteen members of her family. Until what did you think. IC card. Are not that day. You can add to this story. When the news finally came her Brothers and cousin made it through but two nieces and -- sister she's called virtually every day for 28 years are gone. But still some are not accounted for missing nieces and nephews -- has supported for years. Since she came to the US she's what -- a housekeeper and an overnight nurse's -- often on the clock for twenty hours a day seven days a week. She sent most of her earnings home to loved ones. If you aren't a hundred dollars how many of those stars and into Sunday handing it -- back. Several got us going. Patients call their friends and relatives living in America that just for -- and they depend on them. In fact a billion dollars a year about 15% of Haiti's GM -- Comes from Haitians living in the US and other countries when you come you with a dream. And that all not only for yourself. What do you want to share -- the army jasmine the first patient -- New York State is a leader among Haitian Americans even she doesn't know where her husband it is. My guts just like -- Tied up yeah I can eat I can't think I can't I can't sleep and then as if I made -- free -- good -- valley mayor. -- jasmine husband has been found the information is still sorely lacking and what news there is is often of little comfort. He's alive yes uninjured. I don't know yet unable to do little more than wait for word Haitian Americans work to keep up hope for the missing while making arrangements for --
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On the phone her brother in Haiti she pleads with him but he says there's no way to properly bury her sister's body it's heading for a masquerade.
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Best to help save lives. The special edition of perspective earthquake in Haiti continues. After this. The images from Haiti are heartbreaking. Homes hospitals and schools such Troy. Family searching for loved ones perished trying to feed their children. But we can all do something. We can help the American Red Cross says it delivers the food water medicine that can save lives. Donate ten dollars by texting Haiti to 90999. Visit Red Cross dot org or call 1800. Red Cross. Thanks for your help.
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The main staging area for humanitarian aid has been the Port -- Prince airport and delivering all the supplies necessary for the survivors has been difficult at best. At first they were too many planes on the tarmac then they were leaving without being fully loaded. ABC's -- got a look at the destruction in order prints from the air in the early days of the relief mission.
As we took off there were at least half a dozen planes and helicopters. Waited to take off behind us some of them carried it only if -- 200 pounds to get it. -- How little. These aid effort has been so Clark getting needed supplies through. Portal -- and how massive they needed to would have billion people require her -- Housing blanket cool water and they needed as soon as possible on the ground it's -- city gateway bank which locals are. -- over piles of debris just a thousand feet beneath me. -- to the helicopter that'll bring a few journalists and aid workers but little supplies. Earlier the reports of aid workers shot at by suspected looters. Into the -- applies a full brigade of US soldiers from the 82 airborne. The pilot aboard helicopters now it has the advantage in the outlying villages surrounding border raids were just about. Ten miles out. Doesn't seem as disasters because they're built with more flexible materials he says it's the buildings filled with concrete that were shattered -- rise. By that shaking of the earthquake.
Americans have a long tradition of volunteer work in Haiti just one example the Houston Rotary Club. Member of -- Breton and her friends were on the ground for only half an hour when the quake struck. At that moment Breton told ABC's Matt tuchman there mission took a very different term than they'd expected.
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It'll take more than capitals of Ibuprofen to -- all of Haiti's wounds a country ravaged by poverty for centuries ABC chief medical editor doctor Richard -- Says overcoming this latest challenge will be a monumental task. Especially when it comes to the children.
They're the smallest victims and some of the biggest need can UMass turned to tell us what happens. -- he said he may be exact amount. He's techie community feedback. Behind me. If you think fifth black vote is so they made this food yes beans. And then after it was over cooked it put it on the table had been doing the earthquake -- film. To fill in the postseason. Concerned content and yeah -- here at saint Damien it's the only -- pediatric hospital in Haiti. Injured children. Even some adults have been pouring in since the quake hit. Father Rick trichet doctor increased welcomes them all -- pediatric pads with a and we have a lot of adults coming here. You know with severe crush injuries and open compound open fractures so we're trying to set up an area. If it's just under that Hillary if this quake you can still went out with everybody.
Each year at this hospital -- 35000. Children. They averaged a two month stay in this country where so many died from waterborne illnesses like diarrhea and hepatitis. As well as malnutrition and HIV. Little wonder that Katie ranks 181. In the world in life expectancy. Those that make it to adulthood often do so completely on their own. Even before the quake poverty unemployment crime and disease meat for long for survival. Hundred telling that in.
Have a lot of sad cases like these even with their workers it's really really sad. So this boy. Like with so many people of the whole host wolf it's not like -- the big building like this would have to thank you Leo there's checks right. You know they said it happened so fast you didn't even know what's happening it just boom boom he goes and gets he gets hit his brother was killed and helping others in the post it -- he's here alone he's here alone so I staff. Becomes mother and father could go to a mean and teach here it's becomes much more than medicine.
And then it's continuing mission of saint Damian and father Rick. Not just to cure disease and broken bones but to provide a measure of hope for so many who have so little.
Coming up when the child that's supposed to soon be a part of your family is caught up in the nightmare.
The special edition of perspective earthquake in Haiti continues after.
Seen. The images from Haiti are heartbreaking. Homes hospitals and schools such Troy. Family searching for loved ones perished trying to feed their children. But we can all do something. We can help the American Red Cross says it delivers the food water medicine that can save lives. Donate ten dollars by texting Haiti to 90999. Visit Red Cross dot org or call 1800. Red Cross. Thanks for your help.
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From BBC news radio. This is a special edition of prospective earthquake in hey here's ABC -- pressed him.
You have been saying the pictures and hearing the sound from Porter prints but what the outlying areas. Many buildings and hillsides are also ruling including an orphanage run by Mark Stuart --
Thousand. Private. Homes have been destroyed. The hospital in this or. What the local school collapse. Many people are many people are so many people without water.
He says as time goes on the anger mounts as does the fear. The situation there is no less dire than in the capital and the people there know less desperate.
Begin to feel well enough -- he thought frustration and anxiety. People are starting this. And the fact it. Whereabouts of -- here and we are here at this -- beginning so worried about. Rioting and looting as well multiple -- people. I -- anybody -- appliance. There's one bulldozer. That's China -- The rubble while children often that people that it's the city starts now. That is absolutely you know also we have to get the word out so by the people hear that wonderful heroic but -- he's --
And you you can get pretty frustrated pretty easily thankfully that is not the story -- all of the countries orphanages. Thousands of Americans have adopted children from Haiti and hundreds of families are waiting to bring home the young ones they now call their own. Or at least they were until the quake hit. ABC's Barbara Pinto says today are now unclear of what to do next they are tiny victims caught in a colossal tragedy. With waiting parents powerless to help.
I think about this little -- life lost one parent possibly lost another live earthquake. And three Lisa -- was just two months away from bringing little Nelson home to Chicago it's. The suspense -- and she just turned three in December cute little Indian recently flown to Haiti to meet two tiny sisters who was legally become her -- this summer. Within two days I felt by. I'm sure every parent whose -- and not let their child up -- and now anguish I woke up this morning and impair her feeling like it was a nightmare around the country nearly 300 families have little choice but to wait and war. In Indiana Kim and Warren wise are desperate to -- morsel of something that. Gives us hope. That there orphanage just standing in the he's lying in Portland Oregon the brown and -- are worried sick about adopted sons Lucas looser and Thomas.
A local -- there. Said that the children were okay. And that they were meant neighboring church. With no food -- water.
Families here want to rush the adoption process asking the state department for help but the hurdles may be greater than ever for corporate office was destroyed. Which means -- paperwork is very. Pollen Marissa -- were hoping to bring two children a brother and a sister home to Michigan next month just wanna know that my -- make the best of that we can. Yeah and homelessness we -- family split apart I disaster. Barbara Pinto -- ABC news Chicago. So say it's wrong for journalists to become a part of the story they're covering but when ABC's Robin Roberts found out about a little girl who had been adopted by an American family. She and her crew set out to try and find her. And they did in this instance intervention may have saved -- life.
She's safe where was -- when this happens. Who wish list this you have somebody that it should be there for her.
What we met Matt advance people to reinstate it reminded us how the quake in Haiti hit close to home we're so many Americans.
The pollsters say it's just adopt that little Mya answer.
Still out of orphanage supporter prints an earthquake struck. Now all her new parents should do is anxiously awaited Iowa for word if they're little girl what's safe. Armed with directions from the pollsters we set out of searchable little girl known simply as Esther. We found the -- and miraculously was still standing. And there are still shaken for the past few days the reason performance. -- always -- all quiet as a -- perhaps survive. We immediately called -- with the good news and I am looking.
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Asked -- she had a message for her daughter.
Can you tell that mommy and daddy -- Greg will give her a hug and tell mommy and daddy day there are some pictures out there that's her I don't know what they're so there it. Just tell there will be moment general comments it is expanding it bring her home.
And cast. Your mommy and daddy -- I -- very much. Consider the coming -- as soon as they kid.
And here's the story of another set of parents who found their newly adopted babies and interacted with them. For the first time after the quake.
We have the babies they are.
And here I am.
Yeah don't quote. It's. That I'll save it and they're saying are you --
And are not and it. We're glad you're saying you doin'.
Better known -- do and how far it. Thank you all -- we learn --
How the rest of the children.
We got we got on a bus stop Bernard was brilliant and I know you're sitting here. He was brilliant in the lady organized this thing is we got down there the children were being held out on the patio. It's actually a church is being built but it was it it was a flat -- basically and they turned into a -- in this would be lady in a church that kept them their forests. The what the organization. Was watching them we found out where they were so we wouldn't -- And doctor Bernard got us a school bus and that it didn't write down for about three hours the -- of about three hours that they are here now. Pound they're safe and now they're being thin women and children have to.
Coming up what's still left to do and why it matters the earthquake and its aftermath. These special edition of perspective earthquake in Haiti continues after this. The images from Haiti are heartbreaking. Homes hospitals and schools such Troy. Family searching for loved ones parents trying to feed their children. But we can all do something. We can help the American Red Cross says it delivers the food water and medicine that can save lives. Donate ten dollars by texting Haiti to 90999. Visit Red Cross dot org or call 1800. Red Cross. Thanks for your help.
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From the BBC news radio this is a special edition of perspective earthquake in Haiti.
Here's ABC -- since the earthquake hit Haiti we have been hearing the voices those -- those in need. And those crying out for help.
Both landline and I'm staying alive. --
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It's. Some of these guys were jumping out there who were -- ramble on about how weird it was going on.
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And I -- the building kind of collapse. -- my my. Who. Yeah.
Worst I've seen you know obviously it's who's pretty nice deal. -- There's some -- and it's underground and we didn't just blended you don't have it is loaded into the did.
when I'm in Tacoma mall like yeah and matches and come away.
It's an incredible amount of devastation and a little less people than others who -- And our supporters to know love comedy that our communities it. And I think that.
hand the the ground. To the people of Haiti we say clearly and with convictions and will not be forsaken. -- will not before --
To break -- okay okay.
A lot of -- The destruction and the suffering that we see the images. That are coming out of that country are deaths. Overwhelming.
Yeah. Yeah at least a week. -- we found an hour ago. In this room -- yeah. And after suffering so much for so long to face this new war. What's caused some to look up and ask. Have we somehow been forcing.
country agonizingly -- before the earthquake and now left. Next to nothing. What's next. ABC's parent pristine -- princess aid workers from around the world are there now.
But how long they stay in how long this -- legal -- to hold out until proper relief yesterday. Who knows but there is going to be a tremendous amount of rebuilding to do after. -- devastating toll especially devastating loss of life.
For now the dead are -- and survivors wait for help to arrive while those of us here at home listen and watch. And pray. Producer of the special edition of perspective has been life Kessler for those on the ground in Haiti and for those helping them bring their stories to you. I'm -- Preston ABC news.
