and strong winds overnight. the pentagon just last hour pledged more support is on the way. we are live in port-au-prince with the latest. joe, what are you seeing there today? >> reporter: kate, probably the most important thing that we could say right now is that the tropical storm has moved out. it is moved away from haiti. the significance of that beyond the human cost which is people who have already lost their homes, having to sleep in the rain, there is also the difficulty that the water creates. it could create landslides for example, the u.s. geological service has reported 150 landslides and when the water hits all of that debris, there is the possibility of sort of a mobilization of the sediment that just makes the situation much more daunting and more dire for the people who are trying to be rescued.