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Unrest and obviously, many, many people's lives were saved and had their lives improved with the hundreds of millions of dollars had been donated by many americans and people around the world that is the progress but not really progress you see. and what you do see are just communities filled with rubble, which is pretty much what we saw six months ago. the tent cities, the one right behind us, right in front of the presidential palace, those are all still there, more than 1300, more than 1.6 million people still living in those tent cities and no clear plan to get them out at this point. beca...

Here the last six months there has been no large, major outbreak of disease a major concern, which sanjay can speak to better than i can, no civil unrest and obviously, many, many people's lives were saved and had their lives improved with the hundreds of millions of dollars had been donated by many americans and people around the world that is the progress but not really progress you see. and what you do see are just communities filled with rubble, which is pretty much what we saw six months ago. the tent cities, the one right behind us, right in front of the presidential palace, those are al...

Has been spent. a lot of ngos have held onto their money, waiting for some sort of plan, some sort of reconstruction plan, which has not yet really appeared. and so, a lot of ngos still have money they are holding onto so that once there is a master plan for how to remove the rubble, once there is a master plan, they will be able to start to move forward. the big money, the millions needed here, according to the the world bank, estimate 10 to 11 billion may be needed to rebuild that money is being pledged by governments around the world and that money has been very slow in coming. >> all right...

The funding, as you know, soledad, $5.3 billion pledged by countries around the world. guess how much has been delivered? about 2 to 5% of that money has been delivered. they only -- the president clinton and the commission that he is co-chairing with haiti's prime minister they don't have the money to disrush tribute th they would like and that will will be his focus the next couple of weeks. >> back up a little bit, how can you say there is no funding for cleanup, step one, all that money raised, telethons are were done to raise a lot of money, everyone inmaker was watching it around the glo...

Not yet really appeared. and so, a lot of ngos still have money they are holding onto so that once there is a master plan for how to remove the rubble, once there is a master plan, they will be able to start to move forward. the big money, the millions needed here, according to the the world bank, estimate 10 to 11 billion may be needed to rebuild that money is being pledged by governments around the world and that money has been very slow in coming. >> all right. so sanjay you on the medical front, is there a plan that seems to be in any kind of shape? >> well, you know, sort of building a li...