matt rivers just got back to the capital after visiting one of the worst hit areas and he joins us on the phone. matt, the death toll just keeps rising. how dire is the situation right now? >> reporter: i think you can see tell by the fact the death toll keeps rising, this is a situation that won't get better any time soon, unfortunately. we just had a conversation with the director of civil protection here in haiti. he is the guy who is in charge of all search and rescue operations. and he didn't mince words. he said this is a very bad situation. he gave us those latest death toll numbers that just went up. and he said, a lot of these places, as compared to the earthquake in 2010, which this does not appear to be as bad. what happened in 2010 was a lot of damage was in port-au-prince and these were areas relatively accessible. a lot of the people affected. it was more easily accessible. where the he said center is now,