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Than put a band aid on this before it festers and becomes the same problem again, is going to have to be training that's done by international doctors. it's not just care, which is certainly needed, haiti started with a shortfall. >> i was stunned we got hit up for this 20% tax at the airport bringing in relief supplies. how common is that among relief agencies? >> the president put together a commission to expedite ngl's that are registered in the country. that's a rather new thing. you have the emergency phase, and then the rebuild phase. once it becomes that, in the international community'...

Benefits of these billions of dollars. bill clinton said that before the earthquake only about 30% of the money pledged to haiti had actually materialized and the secretary general said only about half the money that had been pledged for the emergency phase of help for haiti had materialized. if that money is not coming to the country you can understand how difficult it is to get billions and billions more. >> ron, thank you very much. three people have been charged in one of the deadliest shootings in the nation's capital in years. four people were killed, five wounded, in a drive by shooting...

A lot of stomach illnesses, other illnesses can move swiftly. they started inoculating children today. but any place you look, the level of work that needs to be done, it's enough to make you throw up your hands. they started paying people to sweep the streets and pick up rubble. they have heavy earth equipment bulldozing building. as they do it, they find more bodies so the death toll continues to go up every day. >> the fear of disease killing thousands of additional people. how real is that fear now? >> i have talked to doctors about it, i talked to sanjay and they are concerned. they start...

The large complex, with all the plutonium and the waste material and the radioactive material still in this area. they were able to free up 200 firefighters in fact to go to another part of the fire where it's still burning actively and also means that they can get the lab personnel into these facilities and check to see if there's any damage to anything. you know, they have 10,000 experiments that were cut short on monday when they had to evacuate the whole area. and they want to see if any of those experiments were affected by the shutdown. going from the emergency phase into recovery and we...

What's happening -- it's an incredible shortage. >> it's not in the media, it's out of people's minds. >> and i guess the romance is gone in some way. but in the meantime, you have, for example, general hospital, the central hospital in port-au-prince, is a virtual ghost town. and what we have to remember is, that if we're going to two more than put a band aid on this before it festers and becomes the same problem again, is going to have to be training that's done by international doctors. it's not just care, which is certainly needed, haiti started with a shortfall. >> i was stunned we got hi...