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http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2010/jan/15/haiti-earthquake-updates

Posted by Matthew Weaver Friday 15 January 2010 07.55 GMT
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Haiti earthquake updates: live blog

The United States is moving to take charge of a country devastated by Tuesday's earthquake as anger mounts at delays to the arrival of international rescue teams and aid supplies. Follow live updates

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People carry a body to a truck in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Photograph: Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty Images

3.25pm:
"There are bodies everywhere, and hundreds of thousands of survivors are living in very close proximity to the dead. The potential for sickness and disease is staggering. We need to see a massive international aid effort arriving as soon as possible," warns Jean-Claude Fignole, ActionAid's Haiti country director.

He adds: "I am standing just across the road from a children's school which collapsed with hundreds of children inside, but there is no clean-up happening."

3.08pm:
Hundreds of US paratroopers have arrived, according to AP. More than 300 troops of the US 82nd Airborne Division arrived at the Port-au-Prince airport overnight and others have arrived in nearby waters on the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson.

2.53pm:
The writers group Pen has announced that its president in Haiti, Georges Anglade and his wife Mireille Neptune, were killed in the earthquake.

Global Voices has compiled a list of renowned Haitians who have died in the tragedy.

2.47pm:
AP interviews an angry Haitian frustrated at the delays to aid. "Security is becoming a priority," it reports [Warning distressing content].

Aid Groups Struggle to Get Food, Water to Haitians
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AffZXo8VzZk&feature=player_embedded

2.37pm:
"What to do with all these bodies that are starting to decompose. People are starting to wear masks," Richard Morse tweets from Haiti.

"Bodies are being burned," he says in another update.

2.33pm:
There's been a clarification about looting from the World Food Programme.

"Apparently there were unconfirmed reports of looting taking place, but once our teams got down to the dockside they were able to see that there was some mistake," spokeswoman Caroline Hurford told the BBC.

2.27pm:
Gordon Brown has turned to Twitter to help raise funds for the Disasters Emergency Committee's Haiti appeal. Later today the DEC will broadcast its appeal on television.

The DEC Twitter feed said: "Hi, it's Gordon Brown. I'm visiting the HQ of DEC sending a message of thanks to all donors. Remember aid you give will get through."

2.12pm:
"People are getting impatient," Oxfam's Louis Belanger reports from Haiti's border with the Dominican Republic. But he says aid, water and heavy lifting equipment have now arrived. "Now it's all about delivery... you're talking about helping hundreds of thousands of people without landlines, cell phones, the internet or electricity."

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2.08pm:
"People need water, they need food, they need shelter – and they need supplies pretty quickly. We saw tonnes and tonnes of aid arriving at the airport yesterday. We haven't seen it arrive on the streets where people need it yet," Sarah Smith reports for Channel 4 news.

In a full transcript of a phone report she adds: "Hopefully today will be the day that people start getting the things that they desperately need, because if they don't get them soon the mood here could start to turn very ugly."

2.00pm:
"There's some aid starting to get through to people. But if you see it in relation to the scale of the suffering, it will look very limited," Florian Westphal, a spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva told the New York Times in an informative piece about the logistical problems faced by aid agencies.

1.34pm:
There's a new Guardian interactive guide to the difficulties on getting aid into Haiti.

A New York Times map/diagram describes the topography of Port-au-Prince and the worst hit areas.

1.16pm:
Amber Lynn Munger has written three urgent blogs posts today. Writing under the name Rightsbasedhaiti she seeks advice on what to do with medical waste at a makeshift hospital that she has helped set up. And she explains the need for structural engineers, vehicles and petrol.

She also described how Haitians continue to sing through the crisis.

This morning we woke up to aftershocks around 5am. Again, the tremors were met with singing. The singing is almost as forceful as the quakes. They are still singing now with all of their force – Hallelujah! It is as if they are saying "we are not afraid!" These people are so beautiful that I cry even now, as my ears are filled with their voices and I am writing these lines, hoping that the power will hold out. There are no others like the Haitian people.

The singing was all night. There were other aftershocks throughout the night. But this singing now is the singing that will also meet the sun as it comes up to show us all of the damage once again. Bittersweet sunrise.

1.01pm:
My colleague Ed Pilkington arrived in Haiti this morning and has just filed this from his mobile phone.

The advice at the border could not have been more clear. "You are about to enter on on disaster zone and the prisons have emptied" the police guard told us on the Dominican Republic side of the border, leaning into our van.

"People are desperate for the water you are carrying. Be very careful."

About a mile into Haiti the early evidence of the earthquake began to emerge. A convoy of three ambulances streamed past us, claxons blazing in the opposite direction.

At midnight at the border last night police told us that there has been a steady stream of wounded people pouring over the border in search of the superior health care in the neighbouring country.

The paranoia that has rippled out from the epicentre of the earthquake was evident even two hours drive from the border on the Dominican side. At a roadside cafe where we stopped for rice and beans there were three armed guards patrolling outside.

12.54pm:
The UN is to launch a flash appeal for $550m to help the survivors, a spokesman told Reuters.

12.14pm:
Cuba has agreed to allow the US airforce to fly through its airspace to help reduce aid flight times from Miami, Reuters reports.

12.10pm:
Save the Children reports that 13 of its staff in Haiti are still unaccounted for.

12.03pm:
"Let's stop calling them looters" and start admitting that we're failing at distributing aid. They are "survivors, not criminals" tweets Fireside Int from Haiti.

11.57am:
More YouTube footage from Livesay. This shows injured people waiting for treatment in the yard of the Child Hope clinic. Some of the injured are laid up on makeshift tables.

Watch on YouTube
01132010(006).mp4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-ore118ao4&feature=player_embedded

11.42am:
The American Psychological Association has issued advice for reducing distress caused by following coverage of the earthquake (hat tip:Huffington Post). The guidance is aimed at people awaiting news of loved ones, but the association says it could apply to anyone overwhelmed by the news:

• Take a news break. Watching endless replays of footage from the disaster can make your stress even greater. Although you will want to keep informed – especially if you have loved ones in Haiti – taking a break from watching the news can lessen your distress.
• Control what you can. There are routines in your life that you can continue such as going to work or school and making meals. It is helpful to maintain these routines and schedules to give yourself a break from constantly thinking about the earthquake.
• Engage in healthy behaviours. Eat well-balanced meals, engage in regular exercise like going for a long walk, and get plenty of rest. Bolstering your physical well-being is good for your emotional health and can enhance your ability to cope.
• Keep things in perspective. While an earthquake can bring tremendous hardship and loss, remember to focus on the things that are good in your life. Persevere and trust in your ability to get through the challenging days ahead.•
• Find a productive way to help if you can. Many organisations are set up to provide various forms of aid to survivors. Contributing or volunteering is a positive action that can help you to make a difference.
• Strive for a positive outlook. Many people who have experienced tragedy find that they grow in some respect as a result of persevering through the hardship. Over time, people can discover personal strengths and develop a greater appreciation for life.

11.39am:
Gangs are taking over Port-au-Prince, according to this video from the Washington Post.

11.36am:
Prospery Raymond, from Christian Aid Haiti, said: "I do not have words to describe what I have seen. I have never seen so many dead bodies." The Red Cross in Haiti estimates that around 50,000 have died.

11.25am:
Bella Baita has been anxiously seeking word on her brother. Finally she tweets the good news: "My brother, w/ minor injuries and 4 more pulled from the rubble of Hotel Montana after 55 hours, a miracle. Joy for our family."

10.54am:
Wounded Haitians have been streaming into hospitals in the neighbouring Dominican Republic, according to the New York Daily News.

"There have been more than 500 today - so, so many," anesthesiologist Gilberto Rojas told the paper.

"We have been doing so many amputations, seeing so many people with abdominal trauma," he added.

10.48am:
Warehouses of the World Food Programme have been looted and food shops in Port-au-Prince have been cleaned out, a spokeswoman told AP.

Emilia Casella stressed that looting was normal in emergency situations.

10.46am:
There are disturbing uncomfirmed reports that bodies stacked on the streets are starting to burst.

10.08am:
UN officials in Haiti who survived the quake, including Kim Bolduc, the chief humanitarian coordinator for the mission, explain the difficulty of getting aid to the worst hit areas. Nine minutes into the video conference they give details of the UN staff pulled from the rubble both dead and alive. After about 13 minutes they also describe their own experiences of the earthquake. "I was just hoping it would stop," Bolduc said.

Watch on YouTube
Live from Haiti: UN video conference
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jbUu2Lr01g&feature=player_embedded

10.06am:
The Department for International Development has posted to Flickr photographs of a UK urban search and rescue team arriving last night in Port-au-Prince.

10.02am:
Another site has been set up to locate missing people. It includes an extensive photo gallery and details on almost 3,000 people.

9.41am:
By last night US teams had rescued just nine people from the rubble, according to USAID.

9.30am:
CNN has footage of its medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, a trained doctor, treating a 15-day-old baby.

9.11am:
Ann Barnes' sister-in-law has posted an appeal for information about Ann on CNN's iReport. It includes a picture of her.

The New York Times has also launched an initiative to track down missing people in Haiti. Thousands of people have already contacted the Red Cross's Family Links project for information about loved ones.

9.04am:
Five people, including three Americans, have been pulled out from the rubble of the Hotel Montana, according to a tweet from Fireside Int, who has been posting regular updates from Haiti since Tuesday.

8.50am:
Troy Livesay, a Christian NGO worker, whose has been blogging harrowing updates on the impact of the disaster, has just uploaded this raw video footage of a tour of the devastated areas and refugee camps.

Watch on YouTube
01132010(004).mp4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viXd8mD77UE&feature=player_embedded

8.36am:
The LA Times has put together a horrifying audio slide show on the aftermath of the earthquake. "There are too many deaths to count...bodies are just stacked up outside," Carolyn Cole reports from Port-au-Prince.

8.23am:
One of Oxfam's workers in Haiti, Amedee Marescot, a Haitian born business manager, has died of injuries he suffered when the charity's office collapsed.

Penny Lawrence, Oxfam's International Director, said: "He was a dedicated and passionate member of staff and will be greatly missed by his colleagues. These are dark days for the people who live and also work to help the poor communities of Haiti."

7.56am:
Concern is growing for a missing British woman, Ann Barnes, a PA to the UN police commissioner in Haiti, according to the BBC.

The Foreign Office says it is aware of these reports and is checking on the Britons missing in Haiti.

7.28am:
Six US ships and 5,500 soldiers and marines are on their way to Haiti, to join search and rescue teams and a military unit that has cleared the airport, according to AP.

But time is running is out as international rescue efforts continue to struggle to overcome obstacles in delivering aid.

The obstacles include a lack of space at the airport, a shortage of fuel supplies for planes to return, blocked roads and bridges, and reports of aid workers, police and officials preoccupied with looking for their own families.

Desperate Haitians are blocking roads with corpses to demonstrate their frustration, according to Reuters. Port-au-Prince is becoming a tomb, writes Rory Carroll.

In a special edition of the Guardian Daily podcast, Suzanne Goldenberg, our Washington-based environment correspondent and the Observer's foreign affairs editor, Peter Beaumont, discuss Haiti's difficulty in dealing with natural disasters and the prospects for reconstruction.

Link to this audio
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/audio/2010/jan/15/guardian-daily-podcast

Meanwhile pledges of aid continue to be made. A UN-compiled list includes commitment from more than 40 countries, as well as dozens of private companies.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2010/jan/15/haiti-earthquake-updates

Posted by Matthew Weaver Friday 15 January 2010 07.55 GMT
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Lyric by JOHN TURNER and GEOFFREY PARSONS		Music by CHARLIE CHAPLIN
	Moderately, with great warmth

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