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Confirmed Death Toll from Haiti Quake Tops 150,000 - The Americas - FOXNews.com
Confirmed Death Toll from Haiti Quake Tops 150,000 - The Americas - FOXNews.com
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Haiti Earthquake, Deforestation Heighten Landslide Risk
from nationalgeographic.com:
"The combination of widespread deforestation and the recent earthquake in Haiti could lead to more landslides in the already hard-hit country, scientists say (Haiti map).
(Read "Haiti Earthquake 'Strange,' Strongest in 200 Years.")
Many of Haiti's people, the poorest in the Americas, routinely cut down trees for fuel—either to burn "raw" or turn into charcoal.
As a result, the destruction of Haiti's natural forests is almost total, making the Caribbean country one of the most deforested in the world.
As Haiti's trees have disappeared, landslides have become a major concern, especially during the rainy season, and the destabilizing effects of an earthquake on soil only worsen the problem.
(See "Haiti Earthquake Pictures: Devastation on the Day After.")
Natural Buffers Depleted in Haiti
Forest canopies serve as natural buffers against wind and rain, and the deep roots of trees help keep the granular soil from shifting.
"If you remove the trees, you have no buffer. So the water"—and soil—"tends to very quickly move downhill," said Mark Ashton, a professor at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
During an earthquake, hillside stability is further threatened as the ground is shaken.
"Anywhere you have strong motion and steep terrain, you have extremely high risk of slope failure and landslides, and they can be extremely large," said Colin Stark, a geophysicists at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in New York.
(See "Haiti Earthquake Pictures: Aerial Views of the Damage.")
Earthquake Plus Rain Equals Trouble
Among the rare bright spots for Haiti this week are that its capital, Port-au-Prince, is on relatively flat land—making the landslide threat one less thing to worry about—and that the earthquake struck during the dry season.
"The worst kinds of landslides would be if you had an earthquake on rain-soaked soil," Yale's Ashton said.
The surrounding hilly regions may not be so lucky, he added. Even without landslides, post-earthquake pictures show collapsed houses sliding downhill.
"It's where foothills are that the worst landslides will occur," he said. "That's also where people tend to build their houses."
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Wyclef Jean: "I Spent the Day Picking Up Dead Bodies"
from eonline.com:
"Wyclef Jean is working hard to help Haiti—and to defend himself.
The Haitian-born singer spent time in his homeland with his wife, pulling dead bodies from the rubble of the earthquake-ravaged country.
"We've been picking up dead bodies because the morgues ain't taking no more bodies," Jean said Saturday after arriving back from Haiti, where casualties estimates could climb as high as 100,000. "We're literally picking them up...some are identified with tags, putting them in the trucks and bringing them to the cemeteries. The whole Port-au-Prince is starting to smell like dead bodies, because every two blocks that's what you have."
The 37-year-old Grammy winner said what disturbed him the most was that under the rubble he could hear voices of people saying "save me."
The devastating conditions in the Caribbean nation have impeded efforts to get equipment inside that could lift the large concrete slabs trapping untold numbers of victims underneath. To make matters worse, the former Fugee said, many Haitians are still waiting for life-saving supplies.
"Aid is finally coming in, but it still isn't getting to the people," said Jean, who has also found himself standing up for his under-fire charitable efforts."
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Suspect in JFK Airport Security Breach Arrested
from foxnews.com:
"NEW YORK — Police say a man of Haitian descent who left the island nation after the devastating earthquake caused a security breach at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport by opening a restricted door.
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey spokesman Steve Coleman says 57-year-old Jules Paul Bouloute was arrested Saturday on a charge of criminal trespass.
He says Bouloute lives in Brooklyn but was in Haiti during Tuesday's earthquake. The man took a flight from the Dominican Republic to Orlando, Fla., before connecting on a flight to New York.
Coleman says it's unclear how or when Bouloute got from Haiti to the Dominican Republic.
Bouloute's phone number is unlisted.
The security breach delayed dozens of flights and caused headaches for hundreds of travelers who had to exit the terminal and get re-screened.
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey spokesman Steve Coleman said security cameras recorded the incident just before 3:30 p.m.
Judy Erickson, a hairdresser who was waiting to get on a flight to Los Angeles, said it was shocking that the passenger was able to get through a restricted door.
"All those doors that you're not supposed to go through should have a guard or security," she said.
Terminal 8 handles both domestic and international flights for American Airlines.
A spokesman for the airline, Charley Wilson, said some flights were being delayed, and some planes were waiting on the tarmac for permission to proceed to their gates. He said the airline had estimated flights would be delayed two to three hours.
Security officials began to let passengers back in around 6 p.m. but weren't sure how long it would take for everyone to pass through security checkpoints.
Inside the terminal, hundreds of people waited in a long line outside the security gate. Dozens of people sat on the floor with their bags.
"The rest of us are made to suffer," said Meganne Harvey, 22, who was trying to fly home to San Diego after a trip to Paris.
The incident is the third evacuation in five months at airports that serve New York City.
A man was charged last week with breaching security at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey on Jan. 3. Flights were grounded for hours and passengers were re-screened while air safety officials searched for him.
A Rutgers University graduate student from China, Haisong Jiang, 28, was charged with trespassing in that incident. His arraignment is set for Jan. 28 in Newark.
In August, a terminal at LaGuardia airport was evacuated after police tackled a disturbed man who was carrying a device that looked like a bomb but turned out to be harmless."
Freedom of the Seas to bring goods to Haiti
from floridatoday.com:
Royal Caribbean's Freedom of the Seas will leave Port Canaveral next week with a load of goods and supplies for earthquake-rocked Haiti, according to a spokeswoman.
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The ship, scheduled to set sail Jan. 24 for Labadee, is one of several the cruise line is sending to the catastrophe-struck nation in coming weeks as part of a $1 million donation to relief efforts.
Donations of water, cooking oil and dry food products, such as beans and rice, are being sought.
Ships carrying rice, dried beans, powdered milk, water, canned goods and other items donated by Royal Caribbean vendors and suppliers set sail Monday and Tuesday from Miami, and Friday from Fort Lauderdale, spokeswoman Cynthia Martinez said.
In addition to working with charity group Food for the Poor to distribute supplies, the cruise line said it would donate to the relief effort, as well as to the company's Crew Relief Fund, which more than 200 Haitian crew members can turn to for assistance.
Current and future guests also will be able to contribute to the charity's Haiti Relief Fund via the Web or their onboard accounts, the company said.
"In addition to our financial contribution, Royal Caribbean will continue to provide economic support through the continuous business we bring to Labadee," chairman and chief executive officer Richard D. Fain said in a prepared statement.
Royal Caribbean also is working with charitable organization Pan American Development Foundation and the Solano Foundation, the company's foundation in Haiti, according to a news release."
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Orlando students, adults on mission in Haiti return home safely, welcomed at OIA
from orlandosentinel.com:
"A group of students on a mission in Haiti, rescued with the help of the military and private donations, returned safely to Orlando early today greeted by banners, balloons and more than 100 well-wishers.
It was a carnival-like atmosphere at Orlando International Airport as the weary travelers passed through Customs and into the eager arms of friends and family. As the 44 missionaries – many affiliated with Baptist churches or schools in Orlando, Winter Garden and Oviedo – walked into the terminal, the crowd cheered and cried.
Carol Grosshans was on hand to meet her daughter Faith, 15, who also was greeted by her brother John and sister Joy. A big teddy bear wearing a "Take Me Home" sign and a dozen pale peach and pink roses were among Faith's welcome-home gifts.
"What she really wanted was Chick-Fil-A," said Grosshans, principal at The First Academy's middle school. The academy is affiliated with First Baptist Church of Orlando.
About 80 U.S. citizens who also got stuck in Haiti after Tuesday's 7.0 earthquake were airlifted out with the missionaries, said Carrie Hoeppner, a spokeswoman for the Florida Department of Children and Families. Department officials were on hand to offer cash and hotel rooms until the travelers could figure out a game plan.
The rescue began Friday when six helicopters – three private and three belonging to the U.S. Army – flew the missionaries to the Dominican Republic, said Tim DeTellis, president of New Missions, the Orlando-based group that sponsored the mission trip. The group had been stranded in Leogane, a city 20 miles west of Port-au-Prince, the nation's capital.
Later, a chartered 737 airplane, paid for with donations from families in The First Academy, completed the trip home. It touched down shortly before midnight.
Several Florida politicians, including both the state's senators, hand a hand in the rescue.
"I feel grateful, and I feel humble knowing so many people worked so hard to get my daughter home to me," said Debbie Coan of Windermere, whose daughter Taylor, 17, was on the flight.
Allison Starcher, 17, who attends The First Academy, said surviving the hurricane was a peaceful experience. Afterward, people got together and prayed, and Haitian villagers could be heard singing songs of praise to God.
"I've never felt God's presence as much as I did then," said Allison, who plans to go back to Haiti eventually.
Her mother, Linda Starcher, who was a chaperone on the trip, said people didn't know at first what was happening. Then, "the earth opened up." Grateful to be almost home, Starcher said early today that she was looking forward to a shower and time with family.
Each group member was allowed to bring home one backpack or bag, forcing everyone to leave many belongings behind. Their mission had been to proselytize and deliver more than 7,000 shoeboxes containing items such as teddy bears, toothpaste and toothbrushes, pencils, candy and playing cards to children in the impoverished nation. New Missions operates schools there.
Newlyweds Jean Compas, 52, and Dacia Shillingford-Compas, 31, were visiting family when the house they were staying began to shake. They were among the group being cared for by the Department of Children and Families and were grateful to be alive and on their way home to Boston.
"Mostly, I'm thankful to God for those who lived, and I'm also thankful to God for those he called to heaven," Compas said. "You can never judge God for what he does."
First Baptist Church of Orlando is planning a fundraiser, a concert and comedy show, to benefit relief efforts in Haiti. The show is Sunday at 6 p.m. at the church."
Friday, January 15, 2010
Tiger Woods Back to Being One of the Good Guys, Sends Relief Haiti's Way
from eonline.com:
"Russell Simmons tends to know what he's tweeting about.
A day after the record mogul tweeted that Tiger Woods was earmarking $3 million for earthquake-ravaged Haiti, the Tiger Woods Foundation confirmed that the scandal-plagued athlete will be contributing to relief efforts in the Caribbean nation.
"Sorry about blowing up tigers 'anonymous gift' such a sweet gesture," Simmons wrote Friday morning. "People have cared so much about other'secrets' this is inspirng?"
He wouldn't confirm a dollar amount, but Woods Foundation President Greg McLaughlin did clarify: "Our plan is to be part of the relief effort to help rebuild Haiti by supporting organizations that provide critical resources to young people."
Really, this is nothing new. Before the recent unpleasantness, this is exactly the sort of benevolent gesture Tiger was known for.
Back in 2004, Woods donated $100,000 to aid tsunami relief efforts in Southeast Asia, and another $200,000 went to establish an educational fund for Hurricane Katrina victims the following year."
Report: Thousands of Haiti earthquake refugees could be sent to Orlando
from orlandosentiel.com:
"American Red Cross officials Thursday said more than 4,000 Haitian refugees could be coming to Central Florida soon.
The WFTV.com report shows the organization plans to bring the Haitian refugees, as well as more than 45,000 U.S. nationals living in Haiti, to Jacksonville and then divide them among other Florida cities, including Tampa, Miami and Orlando.
Orange County mayor Rich Crotty said the large number of evacuees coming to the area from Haiti could pose problems for Orlando.
"We're very stressed financially right now, and this is going to add to that stress," Crotty said. "So this is a balance we're going to have to work on strengthening."
Catholic Charities and other South Florida immigrant rights organizations also are planning an ambitious effort to airlift thousands of Haitian children left orphaned in the aftermath of Tuesday's horrific earthquake — a move mirroring Operation Pedro Pan in the 1960s.
"We will use the model we used 40 years ago with Pedro Pan to bring these orphans to the United States to give them a lifeline, a bright and hopeful future," Catholic Charities Legal Services executive director Randolph McGrorty said Thursday at a news conference in the offices of Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart.
"Given the enormity of what happened in Haiti, a priority is to bring these orphaned children to the United States," he said.
Archdiocese of Miami officials and other local organizations have already identified a temporary shelter in Broward County to house the children, McGrorty said.
He also said they had been in contact with the Obama administration to assist in bringing the children from Haiti with humanitarian visas.
Operation Pedro Pan was launched on Dec. 26, 1960, as part of a successful clandestine effort to spirit children out of Fidel Castro's new Cuba as communist indoctrination was spreading into Catholic and private schools.
By the time it ended 22 months later, the unique exodus of children—ages 5 to 17 — had brought 14,048 unaccompanied Cuban minors to America, with the secret help of the U.S. government, which funded the effort and supplied the visa waivers, and the Catholic church, which promised to care for the children.
The late Monsignor Bryan O. Walsh, a Miami priest, was considered the father of the effort.
As the children filtered into Miami and their numbers swelled, many went to live with relatives and family friends, but others were sent to Miami-Dade group homes and camps called Florida City, Kendall and Matecumbe. They were then relocated across the country to archdioceses in places like Nebraska, Washington and Indiana. There, they went to live in orphanages, foster homes and schools until their parents could find a way out of Cuba. Sometimes the separation was brief; sometimes it lasted years."
Central Florida students stranded in Haiti
from orlandosentinel.com:
"A group of Central Florida students on a mission trip to Haiti is scrambling to escape the crumbling country in the wake of Tuesday's devastating earthquake.
Forty-one people — most affiliated with Central Florida churches — are stranded in Leogane, about 20 miles west of the capital of Port-au-Prince, authorities said.
"We certainly have a mess on our hands trying to get these kids out of there," said Bud Bennington, an Orlando lawyer who is working with government officials to fly the students home.
Faith Grosshans, 15, is among the nine students from The First Academy in Haiti. They left Saturday to deliver shoeboxes of toiletries, edible treats and toys to impoverished children, said Carol Grosshans, Faith's mother. Three adults went with them.
Grosshans spoke to her daughter Thursday night and said Faith was in good spirits. She was visiting with a teenager named Evelyn, whom the Grosshans family has sponsored for a decade. It was their first meeting after years as pen pals, and part of it was spent feeling the ground shake and fearing they would be swallowed up.
They spent the first night after the quake outside praying and slept inside a damaged mission school the next night.
"She wasn't scared," Grosshans said. "In fact, she said, 'Mom, we had a dance in the cafeteria.' Her spirits were very good."
People from Oviedo, Ocoee, Winter Garden and Pennsylvania, all affiliated with other churches, are among the group from Orlando-based New Missions, said Steve Whitaker, headmaster of The First Academy. The school is affiliated with First Baptist Church of Orlando. Missionaries from separate groups based in Tennessee and Texas also are stranded in Leogane, according to news reports.
New Missions' Web site says it is working on two evacuation plans. The first would use government help to rescue the missionaries. The second would be a private evacuation through friends in the Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti.
Parents are eager to fly their children home because the situation in Haiti is deteriorating, and more people are becoming desperate, making the students the target of possible violence.
"They have food and water," Whitaker said. "They're safe. We're thankful for that. But we definitely need to do all we can to get them out."
Desperation and Anger in Haiti as Aid Is Snarled
from foxnews.com:
"PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Aid workers hoping to distribute food, water and other supplies to a shattered Port-au-Prince are warning their efforts may need more security Friday as Haitians grow increasingly desperate and impatient for help.
United Nations peacekeepers patrolling the capital said people's anger is rising that aid hasn't been distributed quickly, and the Brazilian military warned aid convoys to add security to guard against looting."Unfortunately, they're slowly getting more angry and impatient," said David Wimhurst, spokesman for the Brazilian-commanded U.N. peacekeeping mission. "I fear, we're all aware that the situation is getting more tense as the poorest people who need so much are waiting for deliveries. I think tempers might be frayed."
The international Red Cross estimated 45,000 to 50,000 people were killed in Tuesday's cataclysmic earthquake, based on information from the Haitian Red Cross and government officials.
Hundreds of bodies were stacked outside the city morgue, and limbs of the dead protruded from the rubble of crushed schools and homes. A few workers were able to free people who had been trapped under the rubble for days, but others attended to the grim task of using bulldozers to transport loads of bodies.For the long-suffering people of Haiti, the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation, shock was giving way to despair.
"We need food. The people are suffering. My neighbors and friends are suffering," said Sylvain Angerlotte, 22. "We don't have money. We don't have nothing to eat. We need pure water."
From Europe, Asia and the Americas, more than 20 governments, the U.N. and private aid groups were sending planeloads of high-energy biscuits and other food, tons of water, tents, blankets, water-purification gear, heavy equipment for removing debris, helicopters and other transport. Hundreds of search-and-rescue, medical and other specialists also headed to Haiti.The U.N. World Food Program began organizing distribution centers for food and water Thursday, said Kim Bolduc, acting chief of the large U.N. mission in this desperately poor country. She said it was remarkable there were no widespread reports of looting, but added that "the risk of having social unrest very soon" made it important to move quickly.
Governments and government agencies have pledged about $400 million worth of aid, including $100 million from the United States.
But into the third day following the 7.0-magnitude quake, the global helping hand was slowed by a damaged seaport and an airport that turned away civilian aid planes for eight hours Thursday because of a lack of space and fuel. Aid workers have been blocked by debris on inadequate roads and by survivors gathered in the open out of fear of aftershocks and re-entering unstable buildings.
Across the sprawling, hilly city, people milled about in open areas, hopeful for help, sometimes setting up camps amid piles of salvaged goods, including food scavenged from the rubble.
Small groups could be seen burying dead by roadsides. Other dust-covered bodies were being dragged down streets, toward hospitals where relatives hoped to leave them. Countless dead remained unburied, some in piles. Outside one pharmacy, the body of a woman was covered by a sheet, a small bundle atop her, a tiny foot poking from its covering.
Aid worker Fevil Dubien said some people were almost fighting over the water he distributed from a truck in a northern Port-au-Prince neighborhood.
Elsewhere, about 50 Haitians yearning for food and water rushed toward two employees wearing "Food For The Poor" T-shirts as they entered the international agency's damaged building.
"We heard a commotion at the door, knocking at it, trying to get in," said project manager Liony Batista. "'What's going on? Are you giving us some food?' We said, 'Uh-oh.' You never know when people are going over the edge."
Batista said he and others tried to calm the crowd, which eventually dispersed after being told food hadn't yet arrived.
"We're not trying to run away from what we do," Batista said, adding that coordinating aid has been a challenge. "People looked desperate, people looked hungry, people looked lost."
Engineers from the U.N. mission have begun clearing some main roads, and law-and-order duties have fallen completely to the mission's 3,000 international troops and police. About 5,500 U.S. soldiers and Marines were expected to be in Haiti by Monday. Their efforts will include providing security, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said.
Wimhurst, the mission spokesman, said Haitian police "are not visible at all," no doubt because many had to deal with lost homes and family members. The first U.S. military units to arrive took on a coordinating role at the airport.
Batista, the Food For The Poor project manager, went back to the Dominican Republic late Thursday and awaited the arrival of 100 shipping containers loaded with rice, canned goods and building supplies.
"I don't think that a word has been invented for what is happening in Haiti," he said. "It is total disaster."
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Florida Student and Two Professors Missing After Haiti Quake
from abcnews.com:
"One student and two professors from a Florida university mission group are missing in the chaos and rubble of Haiti's earthquake, despite the efforts of a private search team hired by the school to find its missing staff and students.
The private contractor was commissioned by Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla. So far, the contractor has located 11 members of the aid group Food for Poor that had landed in Haiti just a day before the earthquake hit.
The search is still on for 22-year-old Christine Gianacaci and faculty advisors Dr. Patrick Hartwick and Dr. Richard Bruno.
"The game plan today is to try and find these people," university spokesman Jason Hughes said. "The mood here is somber, but hopeful."
"We still have three members of our community that we're eager to hear about," he added.
Hughes did not name the contractor on the ground in Haiti helping to evacuate the students and look for the three missing group members, but said that the contractor's staff were provided to them by the insurance that the university routinely takes out for groups traveling abroad.
The severity of the situation in Haiti, said Hughes, prompted the use of a private search team.
"It is not routine in any way to use this sort of service," said Hughes. "Only in extraordinary circumstances would you have this ability."
Hughes said that the contractors arrived Wednesday morning on two helicopters, but did not know how many people were involved in the rescue effort.
Hartwick is the dean of the schools' college of education and Bruno is an assistant professor in the College of Liberal Education.
A MySpace page appearing to belong to Gianacaci was last visited on Jan.3, and lists elementary education as her major. A quote on the pages says, "These are the best days of our lives."
The group of 14 had been staying at the Hotel Montana in Port-au-Prince when the earthquake hit shortly before 5 p.m. Tuesday.
The 11 students who have been found are reported to be in or near the U.S. Embassy, according to Hughes, and the university is working with the contractor to get them home.
Other Americans Missing in Haiti
"What we know is that when students are identified they are taken to the safest location that they can be taken to the quickest, and that may be the Dominican Republic," said Hughes. The Dominican Republic shares the island of Hispanola with Haiti.
Several family members who had children traveling to Haiti convened at Lynn University to wait for news together, said Hughes.
Around the country, student groups and missionaries are working to account for members of their communities.
Two student groups traveling from the University of Wisconsin-Madison were accounted for and are now trying to get out of the country.
In Indianapolis, two churches are still waiting to find out whether members on missions trips to Haiti are safe, according to the Associated Press. The nine-person group was working at an orphanage 45 miles from the epicenter of the earthquake.
According to the Virginian-Pilot, Andrew Foster, an eighth grader from Virginia Beach is missing in Haiti with an older relative, according to the child's father, Robert Foster.
Foster said he spoke to his son just after the earthquake hit when he was driving with his uncle from the airport in Haiti. The last he heard was when the uncle said, "Oh, my god, I have to get out of here," before the line went dead.
Two New York University students, Nathalie Pierre and Greg Childs, who arrived in Haiti just before the earthquake have not been heard from since.
The missing are both history students, doing research in Haiti as part of their doctoral program."
Obama Announces $100 Million for Haiti Earthquake Relief
from foxnews.com:
"President Obama announced Thursday that the United States has committed an "immediate investment" of $100 million to help with the relief and recovery efforts in Haiti in the aftermath of its devastating earthquake.
He said that fund -- to cover everything from food to medicine to equipment -- would grow in the coming year and encouraged Americans to donate toward the relief efforts as well.
"This is one of those moments that calls out for American leadership," Obama said. "We need to summon the tremendous generosity and compassion of the American people."
To the Haitian people, Obama said, "America stands with you. The world stands with you. ... Help is arriving. Much, much more help is on the way."
U.S. troops, ships and supplies are either in or on their way to Haiti to join up with international relief teams that have pledged help. The 7.0 magnitude earthquake did untold damage to the island, but casualties are feared to be at least in the tens of thousands.
The USS Carl Vinson, an aircraft carrier, is on its way and expected to arrive on Friday. The ship is carrying 19 helicopters and has several dozen hospital beds, three operating rooms and a water purification system on board.
Two-thousand Marines are also leaving for Haiti on an amphibious assault ship equipped with disaster relief supplies and hovercrafts that can operate on land and water. Three-thousand troops from the Army's 82nd Airborne will begin arriving Thursday. And the hospital ship USNS Comfort is expected to arrive by Jan. 22. It is equipped with 250 hospital beds and 12 operating rooms.
Earlier, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the United States is providing the "glue" to hold together Haiti, explaining that the country is suffering from a government vacuum as aid pours in from around the world.
"It is beyond our comprehension as yet," Clinton told Fox News.
The government in Haiti was hit especially hard. The presidential palace collapsed into itself and the country's parliament building was destroyed, trapping the Senate president inside. Clinton said the United States and other nations are stepping in to fill that void and help the Haitians "piece together governmental authority" again.
"The government's been destroyed. They have no communication system. The president did get out alive, but most of his government is unaccounted for," Clinton said.
"The United States is providing a lot of the glue that is keeping people communicating, working together, as we try to assert authority, reinstate the government and begin to do what governments have to do to rebuild and reconstruct this damaged country," she said.
Clinton said United Nations peacekeeping troops will be providing "law and order."
"We're going to be on the ground in force and we're going to do everything we can to help alleviate this," Clinton said."
Brangelina Pledge $1 Million to Aid Haitian Relief
from eonline.com:
"Haiti needs help, and Hollywood is making an effort.
Joining Wyclef Jean, whose Yelé Haiti Foundation raised relief funds in the wake of Hurricane Gustav and other tropical storms that battered the area in 2008, stars such as Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Oprah Winfrey, Ben Stiller, Adam Lambert, Paris Hilton, Coldplay's Chris Martin and many more have sounded the call to send support to the island nation.
The big-pocketed Jolie-Pitt Foundation pledged $1 million to Doctors Without Borders, one of Brangelina's pet causes, which has said it will be flying in additional staff and a portable hospital to treat those injured by the massive earthquake that rocked the island nation Tuesday."
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