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Smith. he's lived in the home for 34 years. he and his wife took matters into their own hands. you can see they actually lifted up their entire home with concrete blocks, wood planks and cinder blocks. one thing local officials wanted to mention is that the city itself, the town of saint francisville is on a natural 100-foot bluff. you can see the steep roadway. but businesses are open. that being said, a lot of people are hearing reports and seeing the damage done and they're not coming. we know it looks more or less like a ghost town. locals who tell us it's more of a waiting game, it's agon...

The gulf of mexico as quickly as possible. that being said, we know it's going to be a very lengthy process. look at these homes completely filled with water. that white home was already on 12-foot stilts. the only homes that are dry is one floating and the other right here. mr. fred smith. he lifted his home on cinder blocks and planks and pieces of cement. we took a boat tour and met with the mayor and it's a mile between where we're standing now and the mississippi river, filled with water. i said i know this area is susceptible to flooding, although this is historic. i said, why do people ...

Across this area. it points out this is fascinating, this is a vending machine, imagine one of the big metal and glass vending machines, with the spray began -- gigantic tree on top it wedged between this and come over to this other side, there is a refrigerator, the door blown up, in pieces, and pieces of refrigerator all around and the amount of blocks, cinder blocks, that came from this building off to my right that collapsed, right behind the building, there is a minivan that is 2' high, completely trapped and this was a building of a woman who did furniture work and she did not have insur...

But it's been a dark day for people here in bertie county. this is what people are having to deal with the shed flattened over and trees falling over the roads and blocking interest of and we've soon most of the roads ap major roads now back open, and a lot of of families here working at this house and the community definitely coming together to help people sort of patch everything back together that they can, trying to cover up the roof and if you look beside it though, the cinder blocks that are here, this is a storage shed and i spoke to the woman whose belongings were in there and she's ge...

Meanwhile, some of the aid organizations on the ground here and some donor governments, for instance, the u.s. senate foreign relations committee, published a report saying, criticizing the haitian government for not showing enough leadership. one example i can perhaps offer. you know, we've been back two days on the ground here. there is rubble everywhere here in central port-au-prince. roads still blocked six months after the earthquake by cinder blocks laying in the streets, and i haven't seen a bulldozer yet trying to clean any of that up. campbell? >> all right. ivan watson joining us ton...