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>> well, we should be cautious about this, because a 16-year-old girl was pulled out of rubble by french rescue workers today. she is now at a hospital, but there is no way of knowing at this point whether she is from the original earthquake or perhaps one of the aftershocks. a lot of people go into the rubble searching for things, and then in the event of an aftershock rubble could fall on them and then they get trapped. i talked to one rescuer yesterday who said it is highly unlikely or virtua...

Good choice. only meineke lets you choose your service, choose your savings. like an oil change for just $19.95. meineke. joining me now for the latest on the recovery efforts in haiti is our chief medical correspondent, dr. sanjay gupta. sanjay, thanks for joining us this morning. 12 days now since the quake. one of the big concerns as you try to treat people in the recovery effort is a wave of sort of a second wave of disease. tell us what youre seeing on the ground. >> reporter: well, there...

Word, im john king in washington. thank you for watching. an earthquake ravages haiti. no one to help them. >> we are hearing voices in the rubble. you are watching "larry king

Get him. why that time between they saying they thought somebody was there, and you all come to get him? >> there was a main reason why we could not go to that area, and any search rate that didnt go was not for long, it was a question of security. that area was not resecured over the last days. now, it was possible to go. >> now we have these pictures that you all took, these exclusive pictures that are on the air right now, our viewers can see what pictures you took getting your camera into th...

We start, though, with the latest here on the ground. search and rescue efforts officially being called off now by the haitian government. 132 people were rescued since the quake and the first official death tolls. so far the doft says more than 111,000 people have died. a staggering 6,900 people are displaced, 609,000 people are displaced. also. elizabeth cowen is reporting from the u.n. compound. the doctors at the university of this field hospital, this is the largest hospital in the countr...

Of pulled out alive from the ruins of a hotel where he worked. he is 24 years old and hes spent the past 12 days buried under tons of bricks, concrete, and wood. the ordeal left him badly dehydrated but somehow he escaped serious injury. shortly after the rescue i spoke with a doctor about how jean pierre was able to live so long without food or water. how do you survive for 12 days? usually 12 days without food or water, most people say its impossible. >> the main thing is the human body can co...

The main action and we -- >> you pulled him out? >> so looking at the pictures it looks like, wow, he was just there, you could pull him out. but this was lots of time before you put that camera in? >> actually, it took four hours to get access to him and to pull him out. he could not get out by himself. we are to get one of our member -- >> a woman, i saw. she was small, thin, she was the only one able to get into the hole. and she was behind to push him. and then you had some people out to pul...

Weve been talking about haiti, but theres a lot of news to tell you about. a passenger on the united airlines that allegedly tried to open a plane door in flight today. a united spokesman said it happened after the plane took off from washingtons dulles airport bound for las vegas. the plane was diverted to denver, where authorities took the guy off the plane. no word on the charges yet. also a major cleanup underway right now in port arthur, texas. a shipping accident sent 450,000 gallons of ...

Preferred package. good choice. only meineke lets you choose your service, choose your savings. like an oil change for just $19.95. meineke. joining me now for the latest on the recovery effort in haiti is our chief medical correspondent, dr. sanjay gupta. 12 days now since the quake. one of the big concerns, as you try to treat people in the recovery effort is a second wave of disease. tell us what you are seeing on the ground. >> reporter: well, always this discussion about second wave of di...

Young man. we then found his brothers who told us his name was wysmond jean pierre, a cashier on the ground floor level of a restaurant hotel called the naply inn. a few hours later, with people hoping against hope to be honest, don, because it is so unlikely for someone to survive for so long, that man was pulled out alive with no visible injuries. and the reason for that, rescuers told us, is because he was entombed in some sort of air pocket that somehow furniture or something around him had ...