immediately, and they worked through the night. one man s daughter is saved, but hundreds, if not thousands of other people are trapped in buildings that crumbled and the u.s. navy will dispatch the medical ship comfort to haiti where a major hospital has collapsed in the earthquake. good morning, everyone. i m tony harris. extensive coverage of the disaster in haiti in the cnn newsroom. bodies are being piled up right now in haiti. it has been almost 18 hours since a powerful earthquake struck near the capital, collapsing everything from humble shacks to the national palace. here is what we know. the red cross estimates three million people may be affected by the magnitude 7 quake. the associated press says it seems likely the death toll will run into the thousands. the chief of the u.n. mission there is unaccounted for. his headquarters in port-au-prince one of the many buildings that collapsed. the u.s. and other countries are preparing desperately needed aid and searc
registering 5.9. and many of the dead and wounded were literally left lying in the streets, even as they hit. the headquarters, the u.n. mission there has also collapsed, and so has parts of the presidential palace. land lines are also down. the only place that many victims and many family members in the united states have to turn for information is social media. cnn has set up a haiti desk to monitor the pleas for help and bring you many of the heart wrenching stories and pictures that the survivors want the world to see. and officials say they cannot even begin to guess how many casualties there are. haiti is one of the poorest countries in the world. and there is barely any emergency response to speak of. pentagon officials say they re already working on shipments of humanitarian aid, but getting there will be tough, since the control tower at the airport in port-au-prince is gone. scenes of horror and devastation in haiti this morning, 13 hours after a catastrophic
another flight from amsterdam to detroit, another security scare in the air. plus, comics get big laugh for talking about late night comedy. thank you so much for sharing your time with us. i m christi paul with hln s news and views. you know, the creek cage is still happening. it ravaged au port prince. they only find bodies. we re getting this brand new video in from haiti. u.n. peace keepers are looking for survivors. you can see in this now, as we re seeing this for the first time, so you can see as they go from building to building. as we understand it, there was more buildings that collapsed more than those that are standing in port au prince. that was a goompbment ministry guilding. look at how they are climbing up this rubble and how this rubble is as they try to recover bodies. this just happened last night. it s not known how many hundreds or thousands of people may still be trapped in those collapsed buildings there. so we re going to continue to obviously keep