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Doctors and the skills are here ready to help. but they cannot come in. they need to be coordinated. . you will need logistics, you need temporary shelters. and they experienced 7.0 earthquake and that left about 250,000 people dead. >> thank you very much. when we come back, the growing covid crisis in this country. we're live in new orleans where vaccine requirements for restaurants, gyms, casey knows -- casinos and more go into
Spiral economic crisis. the quake saturday morning was stronger than the 7.0 quake that struck haiti in 2010, killing 250,000 people. but this one's epicenter was not close to the capital, the most populated area. there's been 17 aftershocks and there's fears that the death toll can keep rising. >> it was unbelievable. and people started screaming everywhere. on the streets and just out of, you know, panic and fear. >> reporter: betty lives in jeremy near the epicenter. with an impending tropical storm, it's more dire. >> for people that have limited resources and houses that aren't well const...
Although it was 7.0 on the richter scale rather than 7.2, which is today's, that was estimated to have killed between 100,000 and 300,000. no one knows true figure because the damage was so colossal. we're some 12 hours, more than 12 hours after the earthquake, and the number right now is at 300. and i think the main reason that the impression we're getting is that this hasn't been so cataclysmic as the terrible earthquake 11 years ago is because it didn't happen as close to port-au-prince, the capital of haiti. very densely populated, lots of shantytowns, 1 million people there. this happened...
Fortunate. the haitian prime minister has declared a state of emergency. one hospital in a southern city said it is overwhelmed with patients and has set up tents outside. when it comes to medical need, said the prime minister, this is our biggest urgency. we have started to send medications and medical personnel to the facilities that are affected. we have sent more personnel to help out. the country's civil protection service says, so far, hundreds of people have died. but experts say, that death toll is expected to be much higher. >> it's hard to say, at this point, the usgs, currently, is ...
The country's civil protections service says, so far, hundreds of people have died. but experts say that death toll is expected to be much higher. >> it's hard to say, at this point. the usgs, currently, is projecting that the number of fatalities will, likely, exceed 10,000, which is an incredible number. >> reporter: saturday's quake registered a magnitude 7.2. that's stronger than the 7.0 earthquake that struck in 2010, which left between 220 and 300,000 people dead. one aid agency with a team on the ground near the epicenter said it's a mainly-rural area, already hit by poverty and food in...