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To help overwhelmed hospitals there. and they would not be leaving if the death toll at least in the capital was on the scale of what it was 11 years ago. but we'll get a definitive answer in the coming days. >> ed augustine joining us from havana. thank you. joining me, the founder and executive director of the haitian bring alliance and managing editor of "the haitian times." we know search and rescue missions are under way. how have those been going so far? >> we've seen them have -- they've been going pretty slow and steady, honestly. it's nothing compared to, say, the level of professiona...

Officials updating the death toll to 304, all killed by this morning's massive 7.2-magnitude earthquake. close to 2,000 injured. with an unknown number missing rescue crews are searching for survivors. the death toll feared to go higher, not to mention a tropical storm is in the forecast. nbc is tracking the latest from havana. ed, are there concerns this could be worse than 2010 earthquake? >> reporter: earlier this morning when we had the breaking news that this earthquake on the richter scale was bigger, people were very, very worried. but as the day has passed, thank goodness, those worrie...

We'll get right to it. thanks,tive. tiff. good day from msnbc world headquarters in new york. it's high noon in the east, 9:00 out west. i'm lindsey reiser. a 7.2 earthquake has hit off the coast of haiti, more powerful than the one that devastated the island in 2010. it happened earlier this morning, about eight miles offshore, about 100 miles southwest of the capital of port-au-prince. reports of damage are coming in with some homes reduced to rubble as that area deals with aftershocks as well as threats of a tsunami. nbc's he had augustine is in havana, cuba with the latest on the quakes....

Tropical storm is in the forecast. nbc is tracking the latest from havana. ed, are there concerns this could be worse than 2010 earthquake? >> reporter: earlier this morning when we had the breaking news that this earthquake on the richter scale was bigger, people were very, very worried. but as the day has passed, thank goodness, those worries have diminished. of course this is a deadly earthquake, we have 304 people already confirmed dead. as you say, that figure is likely to go far, far higher in the coming days as more information gets through. but the 2010 earthquake, although it was 7.0 ...

Good day from msnbc world headquarters in new york. welcome to "alex witt reports." i'm lindsey reiser. breaking news out of haiti, the prime minister confirming in the last hour people have died after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake hit just off the coast of the caribbean this morning. now, the exact number of fatalities is still unknown. but we want to show you a look at the damage here. this is near the site of the quake. people in jamaica reportedly felt the tremors. that was from a distance of about 200 miles away. as you may remember here, haiti was hit by a devastating earthquake back in 201...