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Supplies, literally falling out of the sky. how do they do that? theres an awful lot of risk involved. well tell you what goes into an operation like this. ev? call imperial structured settlements. the experts at imperial can convert your long-term payout into a lump sum of cash today.

We are on behalf of the government of haiti there managing the flow into the ramp. i know it seems slow but weve essentially doubled the through pit across that ramp in the last four days since weve been managing it. doing it at a much safer rate and quicker rate and again it is based on the priorities set by the government of haiti. the u.s. aid and southcom people are on the ground telling us what they need next and then as we smooth flow each one of these cargo planes into the port-au-prince ...

Hotel. >> shepard: the first c17 airdrop was described as a great success. is there another one planned? >> well, the pentagon had important questions, why is it the c17 airdrop yesterday, why arent we seeing another one today? what we were told told is they have to identify a site first, this is done by the haitian government, not by the u.s. military. once a place of need is identified they have to preposition the military troops in the region so that when the food, medicine and water is dropp...

Called them air deliveries because they identify a site and then they clear and it then preposition u.s. troops so that when the food the medicine and @ -- the water is dropped out of the c-17 they have some type of rudimentary distribution system in place. they had the first successful air drop or air delivery yesterday afternoon at 3:00 local time about five miles north, northeast of the capital of port-au-prince and here at the pentagon they feel it was a tremendous success because they were ...

Provide some support relief to the folks in the area that we made this aerial delivery. jon: well, youve got a situation where a lot of the roads are blocked, youve got people in far-flung portions of the country who simply arent able to walk or, you know, get to these food supplies. it would seem simple to air drop them, but its not as easy as we might think. can you explain some of the challenges? >> certainly, jon. first of all, some of the airplanes originate in the united states, and the fl...

Are saying that whatever happens should not be blamed on martha coakley if she happens to lose, but instead, on the white house. >> they took the summer off. when we were all watching those town hall meetings and everything else, the right and others defining that debate they tried to jump start it this fall. it hasnt helped. >> so the white house democrats are looking at one other possibility called reconciliation, it would only mean 51 votes but it would mean drastically changing the bill, a b...

Of people who have to be, we havent told anybody no they cant come in but what were doing is lining them up so people maybe arent getting in exactly when they want to but we so far are able to schedule and get flights going in there. it really is for the betterment of the people of haiti because we are doubling the amount of cargo and airplanes going in there. >> you talked about how much better its gotten in the last few days what are we looking into days and weeks ahead? are we going to see mo...

Thank you, congressman. always a pleasure having you on the show. i shall talk to you soon via some kind of internet capability, i imagine. i dont know. what am i talking about? i dont know either. coming um next, mail time. -- coming up next, mail time.

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