our coverage of haiti continues. campbell brown is up next. welcome, everybody. for the people of haiti, help is beginning to arrive and not a moment too soon. tonight, this is what hope looks like. take a look. this is two-year-old regison cloud in the arms of the spanish rescuer who pulled him from the rubble of his own home. at this hour, u.n. troops are in port-au-prince. they are now handing out food and water to survivors. but we are also seeing scenes like this. starving, thirsty people, clamoring, battling for relief supplies. the situation on the streets is increasingly tense. we have heard reports of rioting, and the u.n. has told its doctors to pull back for their own safety. cnn's team of reporters is going to bring us the full story tonight. the u.n. has set up a food distribution center tonight, serving up to 10,000 plates of chicken and rice to survivors. anderson cooper was there. take a look at this. >> i've seen what it's like in downtown port-au-prince where some of the big structures have collapsed. we haven't been out to some of the shanty towns where so many of port-au-prince's people actually live, makeshift structures, corrugated tin houses, so we're heading to an area called city soleil, which is among the poorest of the neighborhoods. in different parts of the city, u.n. peace keepers are starting to distribute food. they're doing it as early as possible. these are peacekeepers from bolivia. they have lines of people who have been waiting for some time now. they're in small groups letting these people come through to trucks over here. there is no real central organization in port-au-prince right now determining where the greatest needs are. everything seems to kind of be impromptu. they're trying to get things organized, but at this point nobody can tell you where the worst off people are. so these peacekeepers just basically came down to a poor area and set up this themselves and they're distributing a hot meal as best they can. it's essential for them to keep order, because in a situation like this, there are a lot of desperate people. in the last ten minutes we've been here, this line has pretty much doubled in size. the peacekeepers are trying to keep order as best they can, ask that's a key component here when distributing aid. and it's one of the things that aid workers and peacekeepers have to keep in mind. they can't just start handing out food. it's got to be done orderly or else literally a riot can break out. >> and anderson cooper live for us right now in port-au-prince tonight. anderson, describe what's happening right now at this hour. >> you know, nightfall, it is yet another night here and people behind me, we hear them clapping, kind of singing songs, rallying their spirits. we saw a lot of people praying today. on this friday, a lot of people in makeshift churches out in open fields, testifying their faith and praying to god for their salvation and for help. we have a lot of people coming up to you on the streets as you drive by, motioning with their mouths that they're hungry, they want food, asking, where is the aid, where is the help? and we are seeing more organization on the streets. i saw more haitian police out at gas stations today trying to maintain order, make sure that people weren't fighting one another over gas. but it is nowhere near the kind of presence that is needed out there on the streets right now, and at this point it's not clear what tomorrow is going to be like. >> and anderson, you also discovered a mass grave earlier today, and we should tell people that the images you're about to see are very disturbing, but it is the reality of what you're seeing on the ground there. >> yeah, it is the reality for so many families here. the haitian government is now saying they've buried up to 7,000 people. i'm not sure how they are accurately keeping track because they're literally just dumping them into dump trucks, and see as we saw today, in this one field burying them in pits, and in some cases just dumping them out on the ground and a bulldozer comes by and pushes them into pits and then some dirt is put on top of them, bull dozed on top of them and then more people are laid and dumped on top of those people. and it's very hard when you're first looking at it to realize you are looking at human beings because not only are they in the condition that they are but they're wrapped up sometimes in sheets or in blankets or on makeshift stretchers. it looks almost just like household items that have been thrown out, but it's human beings, and it's only once your eyes adjust to what you're looking at that the true horror of this becomes clear. and these people will disappear. a lot of their family members will not know what happened to them. they could be americans, they could be haitians. we will not know because it doesn't seem like their names or records or photographs or even accurate numbers being kept as far as we can tell. >> i can't imagine they would be. this is going to be incredibly painful for so many people not having those questions answered. anderson cooper for us tonight. we want to get back to the focus of aid beginning to arrive and getting to people and despite the relatively calm food distribution that anderson just showed us, other food deliveries quickly turned into somewhat of a mob scene with lots of pushing, lots of shoving. cnn's chris lawrence was in the middle of chaos in port-au-prince today. take a look at this. >> we're in the back of the united nations truck heading to the center of the city. you can see we're jammed in pretty tight with a lot of the same supplies that the world food program is going to be delivering to the people of haiti. you can take a look next to me. you can see some of the u.n. guards. it's going to be their job to try to keep some form of order so things don't get out of hand. the trucks now made it here to the park near the presidential palace. a lot of people starting to push and shove their way, trying to get up to where the food is. you can see a lot of the men pushing their way up. i haven't seen many of the women. it's swiftly getting a little chaotic here. they had to stop. they started blowing their whistles and had to stop about 10 to 15 minutes ago. it just started back, but it seems to be only able to last about five minutes before it starts getting out of hand again. the thing i'm noticing, too, there is a lot of small kids in there that are getting jammed up against other people or they're just getting pushed out of the way entirely. >> it's not good! it's not good! >> not good. >> what is wrong with the biscuits? why don't people want to eat it? >> what's happening is they're confusing the date that it was packaged on, which was 2008, with the expiration date, which is 2010. i know it's hard to see but he was basically yelling and telling people, do not accept these biscuits because they're no good. >> they're very concerned but the biscuits are very good. >> as you can see, everybody is following the truck. they're trying to just hold onto the back of it but it's pulling away. a lot of people ended up with nothing. i don't know if you can still see, they're running after the truck trying to get it. that truck is gone now. >> wow. chris lawrence joining us from port-au-prince right now, and chris, that shows you, i guess, a sense of desparation really setting in. we thought there was kind of a break with aid getting there. it's not really getting there, is it? >> no, and it shows you getting the aid here is one hurdle. getting it to the people without people getting hurt or taken advantage of is totally different. what was so frustrating about being there is these biscuits are good food. because a couple people yelled and screamed louder than anybody else and intimidated other people, they convinced all these people that these were bad, and we saw people throwing them on the ground, stepping on them because they thought they were two years old. they're not. they're good food, and that was what was so frustrating. all these people that needed that food, they either tossed it on the ground and didn't take it or they rushed the truck to an extent that the truck had to pull away. i got to tell you, i saw that truck get loaded. there had to be a ton of food still left in there. >> that's unbelievable, chris. i don't know how you overcome this. communication given the state these people are in, this level of desparation, not being able to communicate. how do you address this? >> i was speaking with some of the folks at the world food program. they said they did feed about 2,000 people yesterday. their goal was to feed about 8,000 people today and ultimately get that up to about 60,000 people. but i think from what we saw there, even though there were armed united nations security guards on hand, i think you need a bigger presence to try to funnel some sort of line. like what we saw in some of the water ports where it was a little more orderly. because in a situation like that, the strongest people pushed their way to the front, and we even saw people snatching food right out of the hands of some of the weaker people. >> chris lawrence with us tonight with a different scene. you can see the contrast from what anderson showed us where they had those u.n. peacekeepers and what chris brought us. chris, thank you so much. there are extraordinary stories of survival that we are still hearing about. and in the midst of the devastation, every one of those stories is a miracle. and today gary tuckman saw one woman who was rescued after more than two days buried in the rubble. take a look at this. >> how do you feel right now? how are you doing? >> i'm okay. >> everyone was worried about you. you were up there for two days. >> my car has been ruined, right? >> what do you think about these heroes? these are guys from iceland who rescued you, and women. >> i don't know what to say but thank you. when they came, i really had faith that i would be rescued. >> we're so happy you're alive. the whole world knows about you. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. [ applause ] >> i was very shocked. >> did you know what happened? >> i presumed that it was an earthquake but i was not 100% sure because it happened so fast. my god. this is something i heard of but i never thought how fast it could be. >> were you screaming and yelling for a long time? >> you know what, i did not even have the time to scream because as i told you, i had just -- >> i mean afterwards while you were trapped. were you screaming while you were trapped? >> when this happened at first, i had one leg that was totally, you know, under the other one, right under my other leg. and i managed to have it back like -- to move to same position, and ever since, i've been brave. and to be honest, i even slept. i did not want to have that feeling where i couldn't breathe, and luckily, i breathed all the time and i even could smell fresh air. i said to myself, god gave me all this possibility where i could lay down, turn on my side, both sides, even be able to get some sleep. i was with people in other place, and unfortunately, many of them did not make t. >> gary tuckman live for us in port-au-prince with a little bit of hope. i think we all need right now hearing these stories, gary. tell me what your day has been like and what's happening there where you are now. >> i spent the day today, campbell, in an orphanage here in port-au-prince. this orphanage was partially destroyed, but the 25 children were in a section of the home that wasn't destroyed. so they can't go back in the house because of the aftershocks we've had. the house has continued to deteriorate. they feel it's going to be completely destructive. there was a huge one at 5:00 this morning at this hotel we were staying in, we all shook in our beds. so you can imagine how scared some of the people are that have seen this destruction. nearly 24 orphans are living outdoors. they're living outdoors, sleeping outdoors, sleeping outside on mattresses in the dirt. the 25 children of this orphanage are all in the process of being adopted by american families. but in the best of times, there is such huge bureaucracy with the haitian government and the u.s. government, it takes average of a year and a half for an adoption to be complete, and the women who run this orphanage, they're both from pittsburgh, they said all the papers have been destroyed from the earthquake and the people in charge of the office, a couple of them have died in the office with the papers. they don't know how long it will take for these adoptions to be completed. >> and you know what, gary, we're going to talk more about this because we're actually going to talk to the parents who were trying to adopt one of these orphans and they are so worried about this, given what you just laid out. i mean, the situation with the paperwork and the bureaucracy, more generally. just before you go, gary, what -- how are these kids? are they getting food, water? do they have the basic supplies they need? >> these children are wonderful kids. they're all really small, and i was sitting with them and playing with them because i miss my kids so i like to hang out with other kids. there was no crying, they were so well behaved. they weren't smiling a whole lot, they've been through some trauma. but the two wonderful women from pittsburgh running the orphanage are explaining the food and water is running short. there are some stores that are open and they have money from donations. they went to the stores to get food for their little kids, and the stores told them we're strictly rationing, a little bit for each family, and they said our family is 24 kids, and they said, sorry, we don't have enough for you. they are concerned right now. they're not saying they're running out of food, but they certainly have less food and water for these children and no roof over their heads. they are concerned they'll have a rain here. it hasn't rained since the earthquake. when it rains here, they have mudslides, and we don't know what will happen if they have rain. >> people are desperately trying to get tarps and that's one of the things on the list in the relief effort. gary, thanks for talking with me. in the search for survivors, like you just saw gary with that woman earlier. 90% of earthquake survivors are generally rescued within the first 24 hours. typically, the chance of finding survivors dwindles after three or four days. we are in day three now. but even then, there is hope, a sliver of hope. the longest reported case of an earthquake survivor being rescued is 14 days. you can't possibly look at the pictures that we are getting in tonight without seeing just how desperately the people of haiti need help, and right now you can help. you've heard us say this a lot, but go to cnn.com/impact to learn about the very many organizations that are there on the ground bringing aid to haiti and give generously. we're going to take a quick break. >> they're simply overwhelmed. there is no electricity to run things like oxygen machines. they just don't have enough needles, even, to do sutures, to sew people up. that's just the first aid station. we have people here wounded, sleeping in the streets right now. 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it was suede with the fringe. vo: download the glovebox app free at geico.com. more pictures coming in to us today. all day in haiti, people have been coming up to our reporters on the ground with a very simple message. i am alive. a message they are trying to get out to their loved ones. take a look. >> i'm alex. i want to send a message for my family in new jersey. everything is good. my brother, my sister, everything is all right. i'm okay, i'm safe. thanks. bye. >> we're going to play as many of those as we can fit in throughout the show and throughout the night given how many people are watching, obviously, friends and family, hoping for a little bit of information about their loved ones. dr. sanjay gupta has been showing us doctors and nurses working in this makeshift hospital set-up, but tonight some of them are actually being warned to leave. it's not safe where they are because of a growing threat of violence. take a look. >> what we just heard, though, wolf, and this is of concern to a lot of people here, the doctors, the nurses, the health care professionals are being told to pack up their -- all their medical supplies and try to get to a secure location. they've been told this by the united nations. there is concern about riots not too far from here, and this is part of the problem for them. they want to take care of lots of patients that are actually in the tents and many more patients actually outside, but they simply are being told at this point to stop and to try and get to some sort of secure location. patients that are waiting, you may see some of the patients even over my shoulder here, wolf, including a little baby boy over there, they are watching as the health care teams start packing up their goods. i don't know. this is the same situation we ran into yesterday. lots of patients waiting for care and hardly anybody to provide any care or any resources for them. again, even as i'm talking to you, there are cars behind me starting to pack up their goods in preparation to leave. the specific language that was told to me was there was concerns about riots and concerns specifically about the gunshots they could hear off in the distance. >> this is so frustrating given how many people are still in such bad shape. certainly a setback. we're going to have more if we can get sanjay live a little bit later on the show. so much of our focus is on the children of haiti. they are obviously the most vulnerable here, in the most danger. 2 million kids have been affected by this disaster. many of them were fighting for survival before the earthquake hit. 22% of haitian children under five years old are underweight, and one-third of all children die before their fifth birthday. those are stunning numbers, which make, i think, the miracles happening on the streets of port-au-prince all the more important. our ivan watson, who has been doing extraordinary reporting, has the story of a baby girl who was found alive by a tv news crew. take a listen to this. >> robert penfold from cnn's channel 9 in australia. he's just come back from an incredible story of survival amid all this car nnage, a baby his team found amid the rubble. >> we were told there would be no more miracles today. this was it, more or less. we were up there to see save the children representatives, and there was quite a noise going on oug outside. we went out and a neighbor said, come quickly, come quickly. there is a baby in the rubble. we can hear them crying. so we thought we ought to take a look. >> what did you find? >> what we found, there was a home, and we made our way through the rubble. most of the houses had collapsed down there, and sure enough, when we put our ear down to the hole, we could hear a baby crying. we asked around, they said they thought it was a two-year-old baby girl. they weren't too sure. the neighbors weren't really sure at that stage. but luckily, we had our interpreter, a fairly small guy, but a guy with a big heart, and he jumped down that hole, and he worked for about 20 to 23 minutes, pulling rubble out bit by bit by bit. my cameraman richard moran also got down there and pulled the rubble out bit by bit by bit. he had to work around a dead body, but he came up, and there was this amazing shot where he brought up the little baby. she was only about eight months old. they were told her name was winnie. by then her uncle had appeared. she was covered in dust but she was uninjured. there were no cuts or bruises. it was amazing. somehow this tiny little thing had survived down there for 68 hours. >> people will want to know, what will happen to winnie now? >> we passed her across all the rubble and brought her back out and took her into the save the children front offices there. we washed her down, we got her water. she seemed in amazingly good condition. she didn't cry once. there were no tears, there was no screaming. she just looked around and stairstai stared almost in a daze. we washed her down, and her uncle, sadly, lost his wife who was five months pregnant, and her mother and dad apparently dead as well. so now they're taking her to a doctor for a check-up, but winnie in fantastic condition. >> ivan, what wonderful, wonderful news. ivan watson joining us now live from port-au-prince. such a relief when i first heard that story to see those pictures of that little girl. but i know we should tell people you have some very sad news to share with people as well. you told us last night of a story or shared a story with us about another little girl, an 11-year-old girl, who was trapped in the rubble who was rescued yesterday, late yesterday. bring us up to date on what's happened now. >> this is really difficult to handle right now, campbell. the girl we talked about last night, anika, 11 years old, trapped under the rubble of a house. very active, very afraid, in pain but talking with us and with the rescuers, the volunteers that were trying to get her out, and your heart went out for this little girl, and as we told you last night, she was cut free and being rushed to some kind of medical care. well, we talked to her uncle this evening, and he gave us very sad news, that shortly after she went to a first aid station, she passed away as a result of the injuries to her right leg and her shoulder, and the doctors had said we simply don't have the capacity to treat her here. she has to go to a better hospital which has more sophisticated machines, and they did not make it to that hospital in time and she passed away. we are told that she was buried this evening in the hometown of her mother. it's about three hours' drive outside port-au-prince. it's pretty heartbreaking. her last words, the uncle says, were [ foreign language ] which means, mother, don't let me die. she was buried tonight, campbell, unlike so many other victims of this awful natural disaster who we have witnessed being dumped into mass graves. we hear she was with her family at the very least. campbell? >> okay. ivan watson with us tonight with that part of the story. many, many hearts breaking for this little girl, ivan. we're going to take a quick break. we'll be back in a moment. >> they don't have water, they don't have food. the most immediate thing now is for people to even give small amounts of money. we need large amounts of people giving small amounts of money so we can get food, medical supplies and shelter there. would you rather have more cargo space? or better fuel economy? how about both... chevy traverse, with thirty percent more cargo room than honda pilot, it also gets better highway fuel economy. may the best car win. 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i know you've been short supplies, short personnel. how are you treating all these people? >> well, the best way we can. we are triaging them and then we're doing all the gaping wounds first. we have a section for them. and then all those that have broken arms, broken legs, just really serious cases, we have those in one area. today we had to -- we're waiting, actually, on an x-ray machine that is coming in from a ministry that supports us, which is joyce meyer ministries, and that x-ray machine has not gotten here yet, so while we're waiting for it to come, we had to transport six people, six critically ill children, to the dominican republic and go across the border with them. it took two pickup trucks, and so we did that today, so we're just doing the best we can, but we're not turning one person away. >> that's amazing. so you were able to get these kids to the dominican republic and get them help? >> absolutely. we put them in two pickup trucks. we had sheets and blankets and pads in the back of the truck, took some of our haitian nurses with us and didn't know if we could make it across the border or not. people told us the border was closed, but you know what, the doors just opened, they waved us on through, drove for a little while and got both trucks, got six horrible cases unloaded and came back. tomorrow we're sending another truckful, and then bobby and i will go out into port-au-prince tomorrow with a pickup truck, and we're going to gather up people that we see that are on the roadsides and market places that haven't been brought into the clinic and we're going to bring them right here into our clinic in parisien. >> that was bobby and sherry burnette from love the children organization tonight. we were live on the air when a spontaneous peaceful demonstration began. this is hundreds of men, women, children singing, marching, clapping their hands. an incredible sight in the midst of all this. we're going to be right back. at quicken loans, we're making it easier for you to get a home loan. we've got a way for you to check the status of your loan online... securely, any time, anywhere. our e signature technology makes it really easy... for you to sign your documents from home. we've helped over three-quarters of a million families... refinance or purchase their home. it's how we've done things at quicken loans for 25 years now. it's why quicken loans is one of america's largest mortgage lenders. - and that's why i love... - i love being a home loan expert. ♪ it's fidelity's guidance -- it shows you ways to spend in retirement that can help your money last, whatever your plans. like, if we wanted to travel? 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>> we hope. we hope. someone has our passports. >> rescue crews saying this is still the early stage of the evacuation. >> earlier today there was a steady stream of airplanes at the airport. they have relief supplies coming from belgium, brazil, iceland, just about anywhere you can imagine. by the time they get those relief supplies from the planes, you haveie evacuees sitting here at the airport anxious to get on one of those planes. >> how do you coordinate that? >> it's a very big challenge and here is no different. >> outside the airport, a crowd of those still trying to get out continues to grow. >> nothing works, so i wait. >> so you wait. >> yeah. i don't know how long it's going to be, but i'm going to wait. >> many here just as frustrated as the u.s. state department representative just trying to control the crowd. >> i'm going to have a security problem here if these people don't stay in order. sir, because the situation is fluent. we have a limited amount of service to them. >> many say they would rather stay here and take their chances instead of going back to the city where help still seems very far away. >> and jason carroll is with us now. jason, i want to ask you about where you were earlier today. i know you've been in these tent cities. tell us a little bit about how the aid workers are organizing there, trying to get supplies out to people. >> absolutely, campbell. first of all, two places. i went to the airport first just to check out how things are going there, and things are looking a little bit better there as of just a few hours ago. the u.s. military now there on the ground aiding in some control. in terms of what's happening back here on the streets in port-au-prince, behind me is just one of those tent cities, and one of the big problems they're dealing with is, it's not that they're not getting supplies in, they are, it's getting the supplies to the people who need them and then once you get the supplies out there, campbell, how then do you distribute them? and one of the relief work ersz told me what they do is when they get to one of these tent cities, they immediately try to identify one of the leaders. because apparently de facto leaders emerge. maybe it's a pastor or an elderly neighbor. they approach them and talk to them about the special needs men have, women have, children have, the elderly, and then they try to meet that need. but as you can imagine, the challenge is great. campbell? >> jason carroll reporting tonight from port-au-prince. jason, thanks so much. i just want to remind everybody to go to the web site cnn.com/impact. we have all the information there about the relief organizations that are on the ground that are operating and how you can give, how you can help. stay with us. we have a lot more ahead. we'll be right back. >> i want to tell my mom and dad, i can do nothing. i want somebody to help me, please. alka-seltzer plus liquid gels rush relief everywhere you need it. it's the most complete relief you can get in a liquid gel, so you feel better, fast. alka-seltzer plus liquid gels. ♪ ♪ ♪ when it comes to protecting the things you care about... ...leave nothing to chance. travelers. insurance for auto, home, and business. maybe one of the most important is centrum silver ultra men's. a complete multivitamin for men over 50. it has nutrients to help support eye health and nutrients like vitamin d for your colon. centrum silver ultra men's doctors from around the world are arriving in haiti. many arrived there today. but as we have been telling you, the demand for medical help is so great, supplies are quickly running out, and volunteers are being forced to make some very difficult decisions. elizabeth cohen saw that for herself today. take a look. >> one, two, three! >> reporter: a moment to celebrate. after eight hours of waiting, this group of doctors from the university of miami finally made it in to help save lives in haiti. i accompanied them on the flight in. no one was happier to see these physicians than dr. enrique ginsberg, who had been working on this makeshift hospital on the compound of the airport for three days. >> so last night you had three doctors for how many patients? >> probably 250. >> how kidding me? let me show you around this makeshift hospital in a tent. the screams of the woman you're hearing right now, she is six months pregnant, and during the earthquake, a boulder fell on her stomach and now she's miscarrying. this little boy over here, he has a bleed on his brain. the doctors say he hasn't been conscious since he arrived here and they don't think there is anything they can do for him. you hear orphans crying through the night, mommy, mommy. dr. ginsberg gives the physicians an assessment on each patient. >> she also has a pelvic fracture, i think. we need one person to change the dressing on this child. we need an i.v. on this girl. >> the new doctors will help, but there is a limit to what they can do, and that's because they're missing even the most basic of supplies. for example, when they do amputations, they don't have general anesthesia, so they cut off the limb while the person is still awake. one doctor i talked to calls it civil war medicine. in all this pain, in all this trauma, there is one bright light, and his name is reggie. >> hi, reggie. >> this little boy just came out of the rubble two hours ago. >> just came out. just came out. his mother, his brother and two of his cousins. >> and they were all dead? >> they were all dead. >> how did he live for more than two days all alone, crushed under dead bodies? >> i'm telling you, that's god. that's the only thing i can say. that's god. >> look at that little boy. elizabeth cohen with us again from port-au-prince, elizabeth. i do know you have some good news to report from where you are tonight. tell us what's going on. >> reporter: that's right, campbell, the doctors here were overjo overjoyed at this makeshift hospital you see behind me. when they heard the military was coming, they set up a mass surgical unit. there are about 100 patients here who were desperate to have surgery. without them, infection will soon set in, so they're hoping to again do surgery tomorrow. that's the israeli military flying in to begin doing surgeries tomorrow. up until this point, they had no capacity to do any surgeries at all. campbell? >> that is great news. that is fantastic news. something so, so desperately needed. thank you, elizabeth cohen. appreciate it. we have a lot more ahead. stay with us. we'll be back in a moment. in your legs causing you pain. ok. what is it? 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how do you try to get your little boy out of there? this is going to be a bureaucratic nightmare. >> what we are doing is not thinking of this as an adoption. what we are thinking of this as is a humanitarian crisis. these children will likely not survive if aid is not brought to them immediately, and in the very short term, if they are not essentially evacuated from haiti. that very well may negatively impact our adoption, campbell. we don't know what will happen. but as his parents, we simply want him to live. we can, i guess, worry about paperwork later. we just want him for now to be safe. >> of course, you do. good luck to you. i know you're doing everything you can. and hopefully we'll be able to help you get information as well from our people on the ground. many thanks to you for joining us tonight, ross. i appreciate it. we have more ahead. stay with us. we're going to take another quick break. ♪ [ male announcer ] introducing the all-new lexus gx. ♪ it has the agility to avoid the unexpected... ♪ ...the power to take on any mission, and the space to accommodate precious cargo, because every great action hero needs a vehicle. ♪ dr. sanjay gupta has been showing us doctors and nurses working in a makeshift hospital set-up, but tonight some are being warned to leave. it's not safe where they are because of a growing threat of violence. sanjay joins me now from port-au-prince. sanjay, what is the situation there? is security really an issue right now? >> you know, it's been a day of highs and lows, campbell, for so many reasons. you and i talked over the last couple nights over how dire the situation had become and what a need there was in some of the most critically injured locations for help. we are in an area that was hardest hit by this earthquake. we were outside this hospital last night hoping these patients would get some care and get some supplies as well. we we were delighted to see these field hospital tents you see behind me being put up. they take care of 100 patients over a few hours. then all of a sudden, they got word there was concern about violence and they were told to stop accepting any new patients and start packing up their supplies and get ready to move. so this field hospital, for the time being, is not accepting any new patients. take a look inside. there are still some staff here and some patients waiting around, along with family members. a woman over here just over my left shoulder was a woman who was just rescued, campbell, after 72 hours. her right leg was amputated as part of that rescue, but she's able to get antibiotics, she's able to get pain medication, she's able to get care she desperately needed. the real question is, is that going to be able to continue or will it be hampered by the violence over crime trying to make sure security is established in places like this? >> sanjay, overall, though, it does look a lot different than last night when i saw you. the tents are up. does it feel like there's been progress over the last 24 hours? >> there's no question, there has been significant progress. the area is a lot more cleaned up. patients have a greater sense of hope that they're going to be able to get some care. it really was quite optimistic earlier in the day. again, these tents coming up, lots of health care personnel here. actually starting to see supplies come in as well. but again, this back and forth, escalations of violence, concerns, shut down the tents, all the personnel sort of take cover, go to secure locations, and then you have tents opening again. so back and forth. we just hope that situation stabilizes over the next couple hours. >> dr. sanjay gupta in port-au-prince who has been doing amazing reporting and i know has offered some help as well. larry king live coming up next. my doctor said most calcium supplements... aren't absorbed properly unless taken with food. he recommended citracal. it's different -- it's calcium citrate, so it can be absorbed with or without food. also available in small, easy-to-swallow petites. citracal. hos15% or more on car to geico insurance?e you host: did the waltons take way too long to say goodnight? 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