sometimes adults don t even survive. we heard jean pierre s son coughing all night last night. still, they set out. whatever is ahead, haiti, its heat, hunger, chaos is at least at its backs. there are the older two, 58-year-old maria, a teacher from venezuela whose monthly salary of $16 can t feed anyone, so she and her daughter are headed to houston, hopefully to relatives. going a matter of hours and it seems an endless series of river crossings. the conditions are just constant and pretty exhausting.
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sometimes adults don t even survive. reporter: we heard john s son coughing all last night. but, still, they set out. whatever is ahead, haiti s heat, hunger, and hellish chaos is at least at their backs. there are the older two, 58-year-old maria, a teacher from venezuela whose monthly salary of $16 can t feed anyone. so she and her daughter are headed to houston, hopefully to relatives. we ve only been going a matter of hours and it just seems an endless series of river crossings, and the conditions are just constant water and pretty exhausting. manuel and tamara, like many
and your team captured there. what was it like for you personally to be there and experience such a harrowing trip? i mean, the sea that elderly woman just a few moments ago. going through that might it just breaks your heart. yeah. look i mean, you know for us, it was relatively easier. it was still exhausting. and at times terrifying, really. we had all the equipment that cnn could possibly furnished upon us and people to help us carry out stuff. but for the ordinary migrants who undertook this journey, it was physically exhausting. at times they ran out of food and water that was clean water, and there was the potential perils of criminals. we saw people who clearly been murdered along the route trade upon allegations of sexual assault from those attacking migrants as well on the top of that to the ordinary hazard of the jungle snakes. in fact, you could slip at any point in and it is multiple river crossings, damage your ankle and then essentially be stranded inside
of pickup trucks being forwarded to the nearest hospital they could find because the problem was that this town was just, you know, kind of in the middle of nowhere. there s only a couple of river crossings nearby. so a lot of emergency services had to come from vicksburg about 45 miles away. so now it s getting a lot more organized. and they you know things are looking up here for the time being. and you ve chased some storms in the past. how does this compare with what you ve seen in the past? and based on the accounts you ve heard from other people? what was it like being in the middle of this as it was going on? this was definitely one of the fastest developing tornadoes that i had ever documented. i ve seen tornadoes to this caliber before, but they had usually are being the ongoing and on the ground for so long. this started out when we saw the initial touchdown as a small cylinder cone tornado, and within five minutes it had grown until at least a quarter mile wide wedge , very