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Earthquake was said to be 800 times more powerful. there was a fire spreading out of control, and it was set by looters, and the local firefighters could not tend to both. a drive down a main street becomes dangerous. looters are breaking into open building and breaking into garages in clear view of military guards. the military said it had to take all groceries from the market to a distribution point, but at this mall they are way too late. there is nothing left to distribute or nothing left to take. the water hoses were turned towards looters and people walking if and out of stores without r...

Of the 48 people inside what's the likelihood they're alive? >> i don't know. we are looking. there are some spaces there that, perhaps, we can find some persons. but in these floors down here, there's not too much chance. >> reporter: these rescue workers were heros in haiti weeks ago digging out survivors of that earthquake. now they're in their homeland doing the same after an earthquake estimated to be 800 times more powerful. a block away crowds watch a massive fire spread out of control. it was set by looters and local fire fighters were running the search and rescue victims and couldn't...

A massive fire spread out of control. it was set by looters and local fire fighters were running the search and rescue victims and couldn't attend to both. a drive down a main street becomes dangerous. looters are breaking into open buildings, breaking into garages, in clear view of military guards. the military said it had to take all groceries from the market to a distribution point, but at this mall, they're way too late. there is nothing left to distribute and nothing left to take. the water hoses were turned toward looters and people walking in and out of stores without resistance. i conf...

During the same after an earthquake estimated to be 800 times more powerful. just a block away, crowds watch a massive fire spread out of control. it was set by looters and local firefighters were running the search and rescue victims and couldn't attend to both. a drive down a main street becomes dangerous. looters are breaking into open buildings. breaking into garages, in clear view of military guards. the military said it had to take all groceries from the market to a distribution point. at this mall they're way too late. there's nothing left to distribute. and nothing left to take. the wa...

People desperate for clean drinking water. and joining us from the water distribution site in beaumont. give us the latest. what are you seeing? >> reporter: john, you know, around 12:30 a.m. yesterday that the water stopped running here in beaumont. that's nearly 36 hours ago. no water to drink here. no water to shower with and the people i've talked to say it's feel it's been so much longer. this distribution point for bottled water opened up about two hours ago. when it first began, cars were already lining up. now they are lined up as far as i can see. they were initially servicing about f...