AS SOON AS WE GET THAT INFORMATION WE’LL BE SURE TO LET YOU KNOW.
>> FOR NOW RAY RAMOS LOCAL 10
NEWS.
>> ON JANUARY 12/2 THOUSAND 10 A
DEVASTATING EARTHQUAKE STRUCK
HAITI KILLING THOUSANDS OF
PEOPLE AND LEAVING MILLIONS
DISPLACED.
>> THIS THE DECADE FOLLOWING THE
DISASTER HAITI IS STRUGGLING TO
REBUILD.
>> CALVIN HEIST IS BACK IN HAITI
WITH THAT PAINFUL ROAD TO
RECOVERY.
CALVIN?
RECOVERY. CALVIN? >> YOU KNOW LOUIE AND NICOLE
WEEKS AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE
STRUCK HERE EXPERTS PREDICTED IT
WOULD TAKE A GENERATION FOR THIS
NATION TO GET BACK ON ITS FEET
FROM SUCH DEVASTATION.
IN THE CAPITAL CITY ALONE WE’RE
TALKING ABOUT JUST ABOUT EVERY
SCHOOL, CHURCH AND GOVERNMENT
BUILDING INCLUDING THE ULTIMATE
SYMBOL OF FREEDOM THE NATIONAL
PALACE COLLAPSED.
>> IT BEGAN HAPPENING ON JANUARY
12TH AT 453 IN THE AFTERNOON.
THE COUNTRY’S NATIONAL PALACE
BECAME A SYMBOL OF THE QUAKES
APPS CATASTROPHIC POWER.
THE 7 POINT.
OH QUAKE LASTED ONLY 38 SECONDS
BUT ENOUGH TIME FOR THE
CARIBBEAN NATION TO 2345ER8LY
COLLAPSE.
-- LITERALLY COLLAPSE.
THE HEART BREAKING WAS FAMILIES
THAT LOST THEIR FAMILIES UNDER
CRUSHING CONCRETE.
A MILLION AND A HALF WERE
HOMELESS AFTER THE QUAKE FORTSD
TO LIVE IN TENT CITIES.
MEDICAL RESOURCES COULDN’T
ARRIVE FAST ENOUGH FOR A PLACE
THAT NEEDED IT BEFORE THE
DISASTER.
THE HAITIAN GOVERNMENT ESTIMATES
300,000 PEOPLE DIED IN THE
DISASTER.
A MILLION MORE LOST LIMBS.
>> IT HAPPENED SO QUICKLY.
DOZENS OF PEOPLE WERE FIRST DAY
WERE DYING FROM SEVERE CRUSH
INJURIES AND WE AMPUTATED THEIR
LEGS AND THEIR ARMS ON THE
KITCHEN TABLE WITH LYNN NONES
HANGING OFF OF TREE BRANCHES AND
NO ANESTHETIC.
I REMEMBER THE TEARS RUNNING
DOWN OUR FACES EVEN OLD VETERANS
LOOK MYSELF WHO HAD SEEN A LOT
YOU KNOW IT WAS JUST
OVERWHELMING.
>> THIS MIGHT JUST BE HOW THE
COUNTRY IS REMEMBERED ONE YEAR
LATER.
>> FROM CHURCHES TO SCHOOLS JUST
ABOUT EVERYTHING WAS REDUCED TO
RUBBLE.
HAITI APPS DARKEST DAY.
>> WELL A DECADE LATER NOTRE
DAME CATHEDRAL HAS HAD IT’S
RUBBLE REMOVED.
YOU CAN SEE THE FLOOR.
TAKE A LOOK.
BUT THE QUESTION NOW IS WILL
THIS CHURCH EVER BE REBUILT?
YOU CAN SEE SOME HAITIANS ARE
MAKING THE BEST OF A BAD
SITUATION.
THIS MOTHER WHO LIVES IN A TENT
CITY OUTSIDE THE CATHEDRAL IS
SCHOOLING HER CHILDREN IN THE
MIDDLE OF THE AFTERNOON.
THIS AMPHITHEATER ACROSS FROM
THE NATIONAL PALACE REPRESENTS A
SMALL SIGN OF PROGRESS AFTER THE
QUAKE.
>> YOU KNOW SIGNS OF PROGRESS
THAT WE HAD A CHANCE TO SEE
TODAY IN THE FEW HOURS THAT WE
HAD TO SEE IT THERE WERE OTHER
PROJECTS THAT WERE STARTED ALL
ACROSS THIS COUNTRY BUT THEY
WERE NOT COMPLETED FOR WHATEVER
REASON.
PRESIDENT IS HOPING TO COMPLETE
SOME OF THOSE PROJECTS BEFORE
HIS TERM IN OFFICE IS UP IN JUST
A COUPLE YEARS.
WE PLAN TO CATCH UP WITH HIM
THIS WEEKEND.
WE’LL HAVE MUCH MORE ALL THROUGH
THE WEEKEND AS WE SIT DOWN WITH
THE PRESIDENT.
REPORTING LIVE FROM HATE PAY,
I’M CALVIN HEIST.
>> CALVIN -- WHAT IS SAID TO BE
SUCH SLOW RECOVERY.
IT’S BEEN 10 YEARS?
>> IT’S BEEN 10 YEARS BUT YOU
KNOW SOME EXPERTS PREDICTED IT
WOULD TAKE A GENERATION, 25
YEARS FOR THIS COUNTRY TO GET
BACK ON ITS FEET BUT NICOLE JUST
TO BE HONEST WITH YOU HAITI
VERSUS HAITI.
OFTENTIMES THE POLITICAL
INSTABILITY IN THIS COUNTRY IS
THE REASON WHY A LOT OF PEOPLE
IN THE INTER NATIONAL COMMUNITY
CANNOT GET BEHIND SOME OF THE
PROJECTS THAT WERE STARTED HERE
AND QUITE HONESTLY WHY SOME OF
THE MONEY HAS NOT POURED IN THE
WAY THAT IT DID HOURS AND DAYS
AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE FIRST