Photos: Haitians & Helpers Search Among the Rubble (warning, images may upset)
Posted: January 16, 2010 Filed under: Analysis, Breaking News, Business, Community, Current, Politics, US & Foreign Affairs | Tags: 14, 2010, 7, 70, abundance, adult, americans, Bestof, capital cities, carried, charity and relief work, collapsed, county, dc, earthquake, eight, Emergencies And Disasters, Fairfax, Fairfax County Urban Search a, Haiti, horizontal, hospital, hotel, human body, including, january, Kelsey/US, Lee, magnitude, main, members, men, montana, Morgue, navy, People, Port-au-Prince, PortauPrince, rescue, Rescued, Richard, rubble, Santos, scale, search, section, sight, stack, survivors, topics, Topix, turning, UPI/Joshua, urban, washington 1 Comment[picapp align=”center” wrap=”false” link=”term=haiti&iid=7551323″ src=”2/9/f/5/Haiti_Struggles_With_d87e.jpg?adImageId=9053205&imageId=7551323″ width=”433″ height=”594″ /]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI – earlier today: A child sits in his father’s arms as they camp at a makeshift site after their home was destroyed by the massive earthquake. Planeloads of rescuers and relief supplies headed to Haiti as governments and aid agencies launched a massive relief operation after a powerful earthquake that may have killed thousands. Many buildings were reduced to rubble by the 7.3-strong quake on January 12. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
[tweetmeme] These photos were taken earlier today in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Please be warned: some images are graphic and may disturb.
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A man requests help to remove bodies from under the rubbles.
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People look on as rescue workers try to reach children begging for help from under the rubble of what is left of the St Gerard building.
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A man tries to quiet a crowd down so they can listen to the children begging for help from under the rubble of what is left of the St Gerard building.
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A women lies on her hospital bed as she waits for care at the main hospital after being injured during the massive earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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Haitians dig out rubble by hand at the site of a collapsed school where dozens of students are feared buried.
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Haitians walk on the fringe of a displaced persons camp days after the earthquake.
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Haitians look at the rubble of the once-ornate National Palace that collapsed during the earthquake.
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A Haitian man turns away from the sight of hundreds of bodies piled up outside the morgue and main hospital in Port-au-Prince.
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Hands from bodies pile up outside the morgue and main hospital.
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Local water company ‘Fraicheu Local’ distributes free water
Rubble of the once-ornate National Palace that collapsed.
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Members of FAIRFAX COUNTY Urban Search and Rescue search a collapsed section of the Hotel Montana on January 14, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti during a search for survivors. Eight people, including 7 Americans, have been rescued from the rubble of the hotel. UPI/Joshua Lee Kelsey/U.S. Navy.
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Members of Fairfax County Urban Search and Rescue scale a collapsed section of the Hotel Montana.
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Members of Fairfax County Urban Search and Rescue search a collapsed section of the Hotel Montana
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Richard Santos, from Washington DC, is carried from the rubble of the Hotel Montana by members of Fairfax County Urban Search and Rescue on January 14, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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BELGIAN emergency workers stand as they labor to free Rosemene Josiane, 28, who had been trapped in the rubble of her house for days after the earthquake.
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A group of B-FAST (Belgian First Aid and Support Team) members worked most of the day to free the woman, who had her legs pinned under concrete; in the end, the emergency workers had to anesthetize her and amputate one leg to free her. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images).
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Neighbors cry out prayers of thanks after Belgian emergency workers save Rosemene Josiane, 28, who has been trapped in the rubble of her house for days since the earthquake.
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People, earlier today, carry a coffin of a relative killed by the massive earthquake.
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Search and Rescue workers from MEXICO carry their dog as they searches for survivors trapped under the rubble of what is left of a building after the massive earthquake.
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A MEXICAN rescue team with search dogs attempts to save suvivors under a seven story building.
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People who lost their homes when the massive earthquake struck take up shelter under makeshift tents in the parks in front of the Presidential Palace.
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A women waits for care at the main hospital after being injured during the massive earthquake.
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A woman requests assistance as local water companies distribute free water as relief efforts continue.
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Earlier today, rescue workers educate and coordinate with the population relief efforts days after the earthquake.
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Search and rescue team members from the Dominican Republic nap after working the night shift near the Port au Prince airport
Photos: Earthquake Shatters Haiti
Posted: January 14, 2010 Filed under: Analysis, Breaking News, Business, Community, Current, NZPacific, Politics, South Pacific Region, US & Foreign Affairs | Tags: adult, arm, Bestof, capital cities, clinic, earthquake, Emergencies And Disasters, Haiti, healthcare and medicine, horizontal, investigation, paramedic, People, Petionville, Port-au-Prince, rubble, Sitting, survival, topics, Topix, Waist Up, waiting, women 2 Comments[picapp align=”center” wrap=”false” link=”term=haiti&iid=7526241″ src=”a/5/4/5/Major_Earthquake_Hits_988e.jpg?adImageId=8973594&imageId=7526241″ width=”500″ height=”332″ /]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI: A father carries his daughter after a major earthquake on January 12, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. A 7.0 earthquake rocked Haiti, followed by at least a dozen aftershocks, causing widespread devastation in the capital of Port-au-Prince. (Photo by Frederic Dupoux/Getty Images).
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People search for survivors amongst the rubble of the Caribbean Super Market in Delmas. (Photo by Frederic Dupoux/Getty Images).
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A wounded person is carried on a stretcher. (Photo by Frederic Dupoux/Getty Images)
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A woman faints in the arms of a medic in an emergency clinic in Petionville.
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A private house in Petion-ville Rue Louverture is badly damaged. (Photo by Frederic Dupoux/Getty Images)
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Gregor Avril, the executive director of the Haitian Association of Industry, helps a wounded child with the support of artist/musician Mikaben.
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Women wait on the floor at the emergency clinic of Petionville.(Photo by Frederic Dupoux/Getty Images)
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Survivors sit in an emergency clinic in Petionville.(Photo by Frederic Dupoux/Getty Images)
Full Transcript of CNN Report on Missing Federal Funds in American Samoa
Posted: November 4, 2009 Filed under: Analysis, Breaking News, Business, Community, Current, Earthquake Tsunami Samoa/AmSampa 09, South Pacific Region, US & Foreign Affairs | Tags: AMERICAN SAMOA, american samoa homeland security, Arts Culture and Entertainment, capital cities, Celebrities, clear, CNN report on American Samoa, corruption, earthquake, Emergencies And Disasters, Eni FH Faleomavaega, following, horizontal, misuse of funds, natural disaster, People, Politics, rubble, strength, usa, vertical, Village, washington dc, weather, working Leave a comment[picapp src=”0/a/1/0/Clean_Up_Continues_a73c.jpg?adImageId=7110631&imageId=6701050″ width=”500″ height=”354″ /]
PAGO PAGO, AMERICAN SAMOA – OCTOBER 03: People work to clear the rubble near the village of Nuan Seetaga following the 8.3 magnitude strong earthquake which struck on Tuesday, on October 3, 2009 in Pago Pago, American Samoa. The quake triggered a tsunami wave up to 1.5 metres across areas of the island, with the official death toll in Samoa standing at 149. A further quake measuring 6.3 struck 85 kilometres south-east of Tonga, but no tsunami warning or additional casualties have been reported as yet. (Photo by Phil Walter/Getty Images)
CHETRY: You know millions of dollars in US aid is missing. It was originally sent to American Samoa for tsunami relief. Remember there was that devastating tsunami just in September. But our Drew Griffin, of our CNN investigations unit, has an exclusive report that may surprise you. That’s coming up. 23 minutes after the hour.
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CHETRY: Twenty-five minutes past the hour. Welcome back to the Most News in the Morning. We have a CNN exclusive now. When a devastating tsunami hit American Samoa at the end of September, the U.S. rushed in to help. The south pacific island has been a US territory for more than a century, so Washington was quick to send millions in aid and emergency equipment using your tax dollars. But as Drew Griffin of CNN’s special investigations unit found out, very little of that money is actually reaching its intended target. Drew joins us now with more on this investigation. Yesterday, you talked a little bit about the millions that went to get those tsunami predictors that never made it there either.
DREW GRIFFIN, CNN INVESTIGATIVE UNIT CORRESPONDENT: Yeah, Kiran, the tsunami warning sirens, which weren’t in place for this tsunami, even though they were supposed to be. You know what’s interesting about this story? The people in American Samoa were practically begging us to tell it to you, because for years this territory has been on the receiving end of literally billions of dollars in federal money, tax dollars, and over and over, we heard the same thing from the people who lived there. Where is it?
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GRIFFIN: In village after village, recovery in American Samoa is a do-it-yourself operation. On this day, a church group has come to hand out water. Workers at a fish cannery are clearing debris. College students clean clogged streams. For most of those devastated by the tsunami waves, like this boy picking through rubble in search of furniture, the cleanup and recovery will be purely self-help. The government of this island of just 65,000 people seems to be absent.
WILLIE TANU, SAMOAN VILLAGER: I don’t know what happened to the government. They said they were going to be here pretty soon, but not even coming.
GRIFFIN: It’s been a couple of weeks.
TANU: Yes.
GRIFFIN: And they haven’t showed up?
TANU: Nope.
HEINRICH TAVAI, SAMOAN VILLAGER: The government gets a lot of money from the US federal government. Every year, they get millions and millions of dollars. As you see, we look like a third world country when we should be looking more like a US territory.
A.E. PULU, SAMOAN VILLAGER: And this is my old village.
GRIFFIN: A.E. Pulu is a former lawmaker here. He points to an area where a federal grant was to build a gym. Where’s that?
PULU: Nothing.
GRIFFIN: It’s not here.
PULU: Not here.
GRIFFIN: A creek that had a $2.9 million grant for upgrades. It never happened. The money, he says, just seems to vanish. Remember, Samoa is an American territory, so we’re talking about your money. And while there have been some federal investigations, many government agencies that send money here, he says, don’t seem to care. PULU: They need to come down and look, make sure that — follow-up the report.
GRIFFIN: This is you — you were a member of this government and you are telling the federal government, you need to come here and look at where you’re throwing money.
PULU: Exactly right.
GRIFFIN: Because it sounds like you’re telling me they’re throwing it away.
PULU: Well, that’s what I’m saying.
GRIFFIN: The one person who should know where the money is going is the person who takes much of the credit for getting it here. The Web site of Samoa’s longtime congressional delegate, Eni Faleomavaega, is filled with notices of government grants he has won for this tiny island. But he told us his responsibility doesn’t include making sure it’s spent correctly.
ENI FALEOMAVAEGA, AMERICAN SAMOA DELEGATE TO CONGRESS: I’m very much aware of the fact that, yes, we do have a lot of federal funds that come here in the territory. And I make no excuses it’s the American taxpayers’ money, the public’s entitled to know how this money should have been spent or should be spending.
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GRIFFIN: And in the meantime, you are about to send even more. $24 million in emergency housing funds just announced and, yes, even stimulus money for an island of just 65,000 people. Among the $68 million in stimulus funds heading to this island, $7.4 million from the Department of Energy to develop, among other things, solar power, on an island that receives 200 inches of rainfall a year.
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GRIFFIN: The money, Kiran, just seems to evaporate. That’s the only thing evaporating on that island. So what is happening? Number one, the federal investigators are thousands of miles away in Washington and literally told us on background that it’s too far to keep track of this money. They’d have to send too many people there, would take too long. Also, what American Samoa does is it basically survives on federal tax dollars. The big prize is to get a government job. Which our sources tell us, are handed out as a way to control the political power there. There are more than 6,000 government workers on American Samoa getting a tax-funded paycheck. But as we saw in the aftermath of this tsunami, we just didn’t see any of those government workers working — Kiran.
CHETRY: As a result of your reporting, is anything going to change?
GRIFFIN: It’s rattled a lot of cages down on American Samoa. The FBI, as we reported yesterday, has opened up an investigation into where that tsunami warning system money is going. But I think internally there’s a lot of people now in American Samoa beginning to talk about this, at least question, where was the money for that gym? Where are the moneys to clean up that creek, you know, trying to follow their own money if these federal investigators in Washington, these agencies that hand out the money aren’t going to do it for themselves.
CHETRY: Drew Griffin, some great reporting there. Thank you.
Photos: Villages of Lalomanu, Saleaaumua, Lepa After Earthquake & Tsunami
Posted: October 8, 2009 Filed under: Analysis, Breaking News, Community, Current, Earthquake Tsunami Samoa/AmSampa 09, Environment, NZPacific, South Pacific Region | Tags: adult, Apia, assistance, capital, clothing, collection, delivery, earthquake, Emergencies And Disasters, family, following, hill, home, horizontal, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, Lepa Aleipata Upolu Samoa, Lino Leifi, looking, men, natural disaster, People, photos of samoa tsunami, preparation, quake triggered a tsunami, remains, rubble, samoa, samoa tsunami, samoan village of lepa, shelter, shore, stand, strength, supplies, taking, tent, tools, tourist, Tourist Resort, Village, village of Lalomanu, village of Saleaaumua, volunteer, weather Leave a commentLALOMANU-Red Cross volunteers deliver aid supplies of clothing following the 8.3 magnitude strong earthquake which struck 200km from Samoa’s capital Apia on Tuesday, in the village of Lalomanu on October 1, 2009 in Apia, Samoa. The quake triggered a tsunami wave up to 1.5 metres across areas of the island, with the official death toll in Samoa standing at 149. A further quake measuring 6.3 struck today 85 kilometres south-east of Tonga, but no tsunami warning or additional casualties have been reported as yet.(Photo by Phil Walter/Getty Images)
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LALOMANU – A man survey the debris at the beach in Lalomanu, Samoa. (Photo by Phil Walter/Getty Images)
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LEPA – Locals sit among the debris on the beach in Lepa. (Photo by Phil Walter/Getty Images)
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LALOMANU – A man looks over the debris on the beach of Lalomanu, Samoa. (Photo by Phil Walter/Getty Images)
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LALOMANU – A man looks at a book as he stands amongst the devastation in Lalomanu, Samoa.
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Latest Photos: Earthquake Devastates Haitians; Waiting for Aid (be warned, some pictures may disturb)
Posted: January 15, 2010 | Author: PacificEyeWitness.com | Filed under: Analysis, Breaking News, Business, Community, Current, Opinion & Commentary, Politics, US & Foreign Affairs | Tags: (Carl, (Patrick, 03000000, 03002000, 12, 13, 13015001, 14, 2010, 43, a, adult, aerial, alive, american, Aminise, Amputated, areas, assessment, assistance, attention, bed, Bestof, boarding, body, boy, capital, capital cities, Casualty, center, charity and relief work, city, coffin, Come, Confirmed, Creole, cross, damage, daughter, dead, debris, department, devastates, devastation, dis, disaster, disbelief, doctors, down, Downtown District, earthquake, ecstatic, Eliazar, Emanuela, Emergencies And Disasters, facility, Farrell/Miami, fear, field, fire, general, Geographical Locations, Germain, gets, girl, Gladys, greeted, group, Haiti, Haiti's, Haitian, HAITIEARTHQUAKE, Headshot, help, Herald/MCT), hold, home, hope, horizontal, hospital, hotel, hours, HTI, human body, human toe, hundreds, injured, injuries, inside, january, jeune, joseph, Juste/Miami, krt2010, krtcaribbean caribbean, krtdisaster disaster, krtedonly, krtquake earthquake quake, krtworld world, lap, large, left, leg, lie, Loiuis, looks, magnitude7, makeshift, male, man, mct, medical, men, missing, mission, Mother's, mourn, Nearly, news, NGO, occupation, officials, outside, People, perished, Physical Injury, placing, Port-au-Prince, PortauPrince, pulled, quake, React, recovering, red, remains, reports, Resourceful, rest, Roselyn, rubble, ruined, school, seek, seen, shelter, street, surrounding, Tag, Thousands, thursday, topics, Topix, town, transport, tries, turns, underneath, UPI/American, victim, villa, waiting, water, woman, women, young | 2 Comments[picapp align=”center” wrap=”false” link=”term=haiti+earthquake&iid=7542868″ src=”f/e/6/a/Major_Earthquake_Devastates_b159.jpg?adImageId=9000764&imageId=7542868″ width=”500″ height=”343″ /]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI: A women tends to an injured relative at a small clinic after she was caught in the massive earthquake on January 14, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Planeloads of rescuers and relief supplies headed to Haiti as governments and aid agencies launched a massive relief operation after a powerful earthquake killing possibly thousands. Numerous buildings were reduced to rubble by the 7.3-strong quake on January 12. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
[tweetmeme]In a country that has been totally dependent on the United Nations and the Red Cross even before the earthquake, the biggest blow to a swift humanitarian response in Haiti is the United Nations Mission has suffered a major blow with more than 150 staff still missing, presumed buried under rubble.The UN Haiti mission has about 1700 staff including 1200 Haitians. Among those reportedly still missing in Haiti is the head of the UN mission.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI – JANUARY 13: A man holds a severely injured woman, while waiting for assistance in the town of Canape Vert January 13, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Planeloads of rescuers and relief supplies headed to Haiti as governments and aid agencies launched a massive relief operation after a powerful earthquake that may have killed thousands. (Photo by Frederic Dupoux/Getty Images).
US President Barack Obama ordered a swift and aggressive US rescue effort, while the European Union activated its crisis systems and the Red Cross and United Nations unlocked emergency funds and supplies for the destitute nation. Much of Port-au-Prince was reduced to rubble by the 7.0-strong quake on January 12 but the airport was operational, opening the way for international relief aid to be ferried in by air as well as by sea.
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BBC World Service’s Andy Gallagher reported this morning that there isn’t really any sense or signs of any kind of organised international aid relief, or search and rescue, in earthquake-stricken Haiti.
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Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince is seen from an aerial assessment mission by the American Red Cross.
BBC’s Gallagher, as he walked the rubble-strewn streets of Haiti:
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People walk in the streets after the earthquake.
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An injured women is seen at a makeshift field hospital in Port-au-Prince
Queried about reported problems getting aid into the international airport at Haiti, Gallagher said:
On The Ground in Haiti BBC World Service: interviews with people on the streets, aid worker, Hillary Clinton, international aid experts
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People wait in line for water from the fire department after the earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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A casualty is identified with a makeshift toe tag on January 13, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (Photo by Frederic Dupoux/Getty Images).
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A car remains parked outside the ruins of a cafe January 13, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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Outside the Villa Creole Hotel in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, January 14, 2010, the injured from surrounding areas have come for shelter and medical attention by a medical NGO, Hope for Haiti. (Carl Juste/Miami Herald/MCT)
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Haitian men transport a male earthquake victim after recovering him underneath debris in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (Carl Juste/Miami Herald/MCT)
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Haitian men transport a male earthquake victim after recovering him underneath debris in Port-au-Prince. (Carl Juste/Miami Herald/MCT)
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Roselyn Joseph, left, gets help in placing the body of her daughter, Emanuela Aminise, 14, inside a coffin, in Port-au-Prince.(Carl Juste/Miami Herald/MCT).
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A group of women mourn and react is disbelief as the body of the daughter of the woman in the center turns missing in Port-au-Prince.(Carl Juste/Miami Herald/MCT).
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A woman whose leg was amputated tries to lie down on a make-shift bed inside the Eliazar Germain General Hospital where the injured seek medical help, but the medical facility has no doctors in Port-au-Prince. (Carl Juste/Miami Herald/MCT).
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A man looks at the body of a dead man outside the Villa Creole Hotel in Port-au-Prince.
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A young girl gets medical attention for her injuries outside the Villa Creole Hotel in Port-au-Prince.
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A young boy tries to rest on his mother’s lap outside the Villa Creole Hotel
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Gladys Loiuis Jeune is pulled alive from the rubble of her home after nearly 43 hours where she was greeted by her ecstatic daughter in Port-au-Prince. (Patrick Farrell/Miami Herald/MCT)
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A woman reaches joyously to Gladys Louis Jeune.
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The body of a person is trapped in the rubble of a home destroyed by the massive earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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A man carrying a coffin through the streets. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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People look on as others search for survivors under a church in Port-au-Prince.(Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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Christopher Holmes from the Fairfax County Urban Search and Rescue searches for survivors in the rubble of a building in Port-au-Prince on 14th January.
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A corpse is carried on a stretcher down a street.