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Injured, in agony, but out of the epicenter magali says her cousins home collapsed and killed her. today she waited to evacuate her uncle this regions future uncertain. >> i know its going to be very tough and we have -- a reason to be here. >> reporter: even days after the quake, locals here are living outside of any structure that is still standing for fear of aftershocks. authorities are still assessing the scope of this disaster. lester >> an awful scene there. gabe, thank you. were tracki...

The death toll from the earthquake in haeat over the weekend soaring to more than 1400, now a tropical storm threatening to cause flash flooding and mudslides in the same area where the quake hit. only complicating an already challenging search and rescue effort. lets go live to cnns joe johns live for us in port toe -au-pri. what is it looking like there? >> reporter: the prime minister has declared three days of mourning as the government tries to figure out what it can do for the vehicle it i...

Further south. lets go to bill karins for the latest on that. bill? >> good morning to you. well watching tropical depression fred and haiti is dealing with grace. fred first, a tornado watch for the atlanta area continuing through 1:00. the storm is done with florida and now moving through georgia. we have a high risk of flash flooding today, especially in the mountain areas. heres the latest, its a depression, winds wont cause any more problems. the storm is moving about 14 miles per hour, jus...

Storms in the coming weeks. what this elevated terrain rises as high as 10,037 feet. it speaks to how rugged this landscape is. and often one that breaks systems down and allows weakened tropical systems to move west of this system. unfortunately given whats happened in the last few days this is the last thing you want to see in large part because of the mountains that lie in this region. were watching for as much as 4 to 6 inches of rainfall potentially exceeding 400 meters in a widespread area...

>> its really arrived, jake, in the last hour or so. you can see it is obviously raining quite strongly here. were 60 miles or so west, maybe 100 or so miles west of where the, epicenter of where this was. this will complicate the search and rescue efforts ongoing. the cnn weather team is that as this tropical depression moves over, the place in haiti that is set to receive the most amount of rain fall from this just happens to be where the place of this earthquake was. there is a lot of damage....

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Was. that is very bad news for people not only for search and rest key rescue efforts making it hard to find survivors but consider this, nearly 14,000 structures have collapsed as a result of this earthquake. that has displaced thousands and thousands and thousands of people now outdoors sleeping outdoors, in many cases in makeshift tents that will have to deal with this rain, which of course brings this risk of flash flooding, mudslides making it harder for healthcaemergency re and before the ...

It has weakened to a tropical depression and a lot of that has to do with the elevated and mountainous terrain across the region. a rise on the island of hispaniola. that is higher than mountains across 37 u.s. states. so it speaks to how rugged this particular landscape is. and that is often great news for weakening tropical systems. unfortunately, coming in on the heels of a quake, it is the last thing you want to see so it is all happening at the expense of this particular island as rainfall ...

Process is going so slowly. we were actually able to get into one of the hardest hit areas yesterday by taking a helicopter, about a 100-mile flight west of where we are right now in port-au-prince. when we got there, we saw that devastation firsthand. we saw specifically this hotel, it was a multiple story hotel, alisyn, that had collapsed. authorities told us there were bodies inside that rubble. at the time, there were limited search and rescue operations ongoing but nothing to the scale that...

Collapsed. what i was saying before, haitian authorities having such a difficult time at this point reaching some of these places. we didnt see the kind of search and rescue efforts you think you would see. part of the reason is because this is a very widespread area. different localities, relatively small communities that authorities are having trouble getting access to. and thats before whats going to happen in a few hours from now, john, when this tropical depression, grace, is expected to ar...