month that then the president was assassinated by a gang. and there s been a power vacuum since. with different gangs taking part in different parts of the swath. the u.s. government has warned not to travel to haiti because of poor infrastructure. and last week, the state department ordered all family members and nonemergency personnel of the embassy to leave the country immediately because it s so unsafe. this came after at least three days there a row of restrictions when embassy staffers and families were supposed to ay there on the e compound because things were so dangerous. the u.n.taryeneral anniguterres said haitians are trapped in a living nightmare with humanitarian christians that are beyond appalling. he went to say we re calling for a robust security force to work hand are in hand with the
they said it is their highest priority to bring back these two safely. they are not going to release a lot of additional information. we know from a state department spokesperson that their highest priority is the safety and security of u.s. citizens abroad. the context here, this increasingly bad security situation, is important. i should mention the u.n. secretary-general was really in haiti. he said the haitians are trapped in a living nightmare. he said the humanitarian situation, conditions there are appalling. he has called for what he calls a robust security force deployed by member states of the u.n. to work with the haitian national police to try to defeat and dismantle and arrest control back from the gangs and bring the security situation under control. as of right now, we still are awaiting more details, more news on the fate of this mother and her young child.
assassinated by a gang, and there s been a power vacuum ever since, and with gangs taking over swaths of the country. and the state department has warned americans not to travel to haiti because of the frequency of kidnapsings, crime, civil unrest, also because of the poor health care infrastructure. just last week on thursday, the state department ordered family members and non-emergency personnel to leave the country immediately because it s so dangerous. that came after at least three days in a row of restrictions telling people to stay exactly around the embassy compound. so a lot of concerns about security there, so much so that the u.n. secretary-general, antonio guterres, has said during a recent visit to haiti that haitians are trapped in a living nightmare with humanitarian conditions beyond appalling. he has backed what he s called a robust security force of member states, members of the united nations, to come together to kind of go into haiti to gain control from these gang
those criminal groups have assumed control of vast swaths of the country. in early july the medical humanitarian charity doctors without borders had to stop their work at one of the hospitals in the tobar neighborhood, and around 20 armed men forcibly entered the hospital to remove a patient being treated for gunshot wounds from the operating room. u.n. secretary general antonio gutierrez made an urgent plea after visiting the country in early july. we are not calling for a political we are calling for a robust security force deployed by member states to the international police to dismantle the gangs and restore security across the country. reporter: gutierrez added the haitian people are trapped in a living nightmare, calling humanitarian conditions in the
friends, it seemed obvious, someone had michelle s phone. someone who was not michele. the more that they it felt like it was becoming sinister. having this person text back as michelle was just extremely, extremely terrifying. how does it feel like going through that? it s hard to put into where a living nightmare, i think is the closest thing. strange, as chilling as these messages were, it gave michele s friends and family some hope. to them, it seemed obvious they were communicating with someone who had abducted michelle. and so, their mission was not clear. michelle didn t just need to be found. michelle needed to be rescued. it s a time critical situation.