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TodaysNetworkNews: 15 January 2010 – UNTV – U.N. MINUSTAH: Port-au-Prince, Haiti – Haitian President René Garcia Préval today (15 January) surveyed the damage from the air caused by Tuesdays massive earthquake that struck the capital Port-au-Prince and neighboring areas.The 7.0 magnitude earthquake is said to have affected one-third of Haitis 9-million strong population. Many of the people in the hard-hit capital, Port-au-Prince, do not have access to food, water, shelter and electricity. Préval stressed that the priority was to get his government as well as the UN Stabilization Mission (MINUSTAH) back on their feet, and speculated that the top UN official in Haiti, Hédi Annabi and his deputy Luiz Carlos da Costa who are trapped in the rubble of the Missions Headquarters, are already dead. SOUNDBITE (Creole) René Garcia Préval, President of Haiti: “The priority is to put MINUSTAH and the government back into a functional state. We’ve seen that the UN headquarters collapsed. The Head of the UN Mission and his deputy and many of their staff are dead.” The President pointed out that clearing the roads in order to be able to deliver aid and burying the dead are priorities as well.SOUNDBITE (Creole) René Garcia Préval, President of Haiti: “The second priority is to clear the roads so we can get help to the people. And I believe the third priority is to sanitize the area. There are thousands of cadavers that causing risks of epidemics. We have to – and we have already started to – take those bodies away.” This afternoon, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon spoke by phone with the Haitian President and assured him the UN was fully mobilized to bring aid. Préval said the biggest problem was coordinating all the aid efforts and he would discuss the issue with Bans acting Special Representative in Haiti Edmond Mulet. …………………………………………………………………………( UNITED NATIONS MINUSTAH ) ( UNITED NATIONS TELEVISION: UNTV ) ……………………………………………………………………….. TodaysNetworkNews:SEE: http://www.TodaysNetworkNews.comGLOBAL NEWS NETWORK FOR BREAKING INTERNATIONAL NEWS, OPINION, VIDEO AND TELEVISION by Internationally Accredited News Journalists ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

== TEXT “Haiti” to “90999″ – INSTANT 10$ DONATION! ==JOIN: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Haiti-E…Desperately needed aid from around the world slowly made its way Thursday into Haiti, where supply bottlenecks and a leadership vacuum left rescuers scrambling on their own to save the trapped and injured and get relief supplies into the capital.The international Red Cross estimated that 45,000 to 50,000 people were killed in Tuesday’s magnitude-7 earthquake. “We have already buried 7,000 in a mass grave,” Haiti’s president said.President Barack Obama announced that “one of the largest relief efforts in our recent history” is moving toward Haiti, with thousands of troops and a broad array of civilian rescue workers flying or sailing in to aid the stricken country — backed by more than $100 million in relief funds.To the Haitians, Obama promised: “You will not be forsaken.”The nascent flow of rescue workers showed some results: A newly arrived search team pulled a U.N. security worker alive from the organization’s collapsed headquarters, where about 100 people are still trapped. He stood, held up a fist in celebration, and was helped off to a hospital.But thousands of Haitians, living or dead, remained buried beneath collapsed buildings, leaving friends and relatives to claw at the wreckage, often with bare hands, in attempts to free them.Many of those pulled out dead still lay in the street, often covered by a white cloth, in 81-degree heat. Some people dragged the dust-covered dead along the roads toward the morgue.There, people came to hunt for relatives in a macabre sea of hundreds of bodies just a few feet where badly wounded quake victims sat awaiting a doctor from the neighboring hospital.

!!!THEY NEED HELP!!!:More videos:-Raw Footage Of Earthquake In Haiti 1/12/2010: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ-ZEo…-Haiti earthquake footage..: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7okWM0…-!!MAJOR DISASTER AFTER EARTHQUAKE DEVASTATES HAITI!!:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMN2oU…-Please text “Yele” to 501501 to donate $5 to YELE HAITI.Your money will help with relief efforts. They need our help..please … -Red Cross linked with Amazon so you can use your Amazon account to donate $ to Haiti: http://bit.ly/4XMCoB-A group called Direct Relief International is organising medical aid to Haiti http://bit.ly/7CQmw2-Haiti 911 http://earthquake.haiti911.com/-Red Cross:http://www.redcross.org/-Red Cross donation:http://www.redcross.org/donate/donate.html-More Haiti Earthquake images:http://picfog.com/search/HaitiMy thoughts & prayers for those people in Haiti.& yes,help is on the way!!Shame those people on youtube who put Haiti earthquake pics just to gain views.World Wide Earthquakes in the past 30+ hours:Last 30+ hours:-M 7.0 Haiti-M 5.0, Luzon, Philippines- M 2.8, Puerto Rico region-M 5.4, Kepulauan Kai, Indonesia… See More- M3.5 – 62.6 km (38.9 mi) W of Ferndale- M 5.1, northeast of Taiwan-M 4.9, Guatemala-M 3.1, Southern California-M 3.2, Mona Passage, Puerto Rico-M 3.8, Unimak Island region, Alaska-Magnitude 6.5 earthquake rattles Eureka in Northern CaliforniaMore information:-ABC http://abcnews.go.com/-CNN http://abcnews.go.com/-Yahoo news http://news.yahoo.com/ ‘Severe shaking’,'wide spread devastation’,'kids need medical attention’,'Haiti is NOT prepared for this wide spread devastation’,-CNNHaiti’s infrastructure was among the world’s worst even in the best of times, the country’s ambassador to the U.S. said-CNN-FAA, Miami center says it cannot establish communication with Haiti airport, will not send flights until link is made – NBC-Catholic Relief Services describes situation in Haiti as “a total disaster” -CNN donation: http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2007/impact/How you can help:• International Medical Corps• Direct Relief International• World Vision• International Relief Teams• Yéle Haiti• American Red Cross• Operation USA• CARE• Catholic Relief Services• World Food Programme• World Concern• Save the Children• UNICEF USA*Help on it’s way:-U.S. to give help-California troops on there way to Haiti-U.N. to help too-Inter-American Development Bank to immediately provide $200,000 to Haiti in emergency aid – Reuters-Members of Los Angeles Fire Department heading to Haiti to help with quake relief. http://bit.ly/4ilYl

As Haiti tries to recover from the disaster, one of the greatest challenges will be rebuilding infrastructure that includes good sanitation, clean water, and meals for the displaced. But the mental health of thousands of Haitians will be an issue long after international aid workers have left the country. Psychiatrists say it could be months before victims and their families feel the full effect of the earthquake, and that, they say, is when their work really begins. VOA’s Melinda Smith has details.