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Still stuck in the rubble. 5700 people injured. at least 100 people killed. behind me you will see this is a plane from chile bringing in water food and urgent medical supplies to the hardest hit areas of haiti in the southwestern peninsula. this is an inaudible try to get aid out there before the tropical depression grace hits here tonight into tomorrow. getting to where this earthquake hit is very difficult by road. there are roads that are impassable right now and this weather is only going to make things worse with landslides as well as mud slides. so they are trying to get as much air sup...

Up, because part of the issue that haitian authorities have had since the beginning is getting access to some of the harder-hit areas. a lot of these places that have been hit outside of port-au-prince are in areas that are kind of one road in, one road out, sort of places. and as a result of this earthquake, you have damage in the streets, mud slides, debris in the roads. it makes it impassable for people to assess the damage and get help there. that's going to get better as time goes on. that's the reality. yesterday we were able to take a helicopter and see one of the areas most affected by...

Collapsed. what i was saying before, haitian authorities having such a difficult time at this point reaching some of these places. we didn't see the kind of search and rescue efforts you think you would see. part of the reason is because this is a very widespread area. different localities, relatively small communities that authorities are having trouble getting access to. and that's before what's going to happen in a few hours from now, john, when this tropical depression, grace, is expected to arrive here. it's expected to directly impact where this earthquake happened, at least 35-mile-an-h...

Done. >> reporter: this is the latest devastation for a country that never fully recovers from the earthquake in 2010 that killed as many as 300,000 people. haiti is also already dealing with political chaos, sparked by the brazen assassination of its president last month. now tropical storm grace is forecast to hit haiti by tomorrow, bringing punishing rain that could lead to flash flooding and new mud slides. yet another blow to a country in crisis. this latest earthquake was more powerful than the one in 2010 in haiti that killed an estimated quarter million people. the difference was the e...

The earthquake that struck haiti over the weekend has left nearly 1300 people dead as of now and 5,000 injured. calling upon foreign aid to provide urgent need of medical su supplies for the thousands of victims. in port-au-prince right now, matt, what are you hearing? >> reporter: these are difficult places to get to. this region has been affected by road closures, mud slides, access is a big problem for the government right now as we've been told by haitian authorities. as high as those numbers are