WAY. REPORTING LIVE FROM SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, LOCAL TEN
NEWS.
NEWS. >>> NOW TO HAITI, WHERE PEOPLE
ARE MARKING TEN YEARS SINCE A
MASSIVE EARTHQUAKE KILLED
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF
PEOPLE.
PEOPLE. >> HE SAT DOWN FACE-TO-FACE
WITH OUR OWN, WHO WAS LIVE
(UNINTELLIGIBLE)
(UNINTELLIGIBLE) >>> THE GROUND BEGAN TO SHAKE
AT FOUR: 53 P.M., LASTING 38
SECONDS. NO ONE SAW IT COMING.
NO ONE STOOD A CHANCE. THE
GOVERNMENT ESTIMATES THE
DISASTER CLAIMED 316,000 LIVES.
MORE THAN 1 MILLION AND A HALF
PEOPLE WERE LEFT LIVING IN TENT
CITY. EQUALLY THAT MANY WERE
INJURED FROM THE QUAKE.
>> (SPEAKING ANOTHER LANGUAGE)
>>REPORTER: HAITI’S PRESIDENT
SAID SOME PROGRESS HAS BEEN
BLOCKED BY POLITICAL INVITING.
>> SOME PEOPLE WEREN’T HAPPY.
SOME PEOPLE ARE SO NOT HAPPY
THAT THEY BLOCKED THE PROJECT.
SOME EQUIPMENT SET ON FIRE.
>>REPORTER: HE SAID HE WOULD
LIKE TO HAVE HAITIANS LIVING
ALL OVER THE WORLD, ESPECIALLY
IN SOUTH FLORIDA, MORE INVOLVED
IN GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS. THAT
WILL TAKE CHANGING HAITI’S
CONSTITUTION.
CONSTITUTION. >> THE CONSTITUTION NEEDS TO
CHANGE. TO HAVE A SOCIETY MORE
INCLUSIVE
INCLUSIVE INCLUSIVE -- (UNINTELLIGIBLE)
>>REPORTER: THE GOVERNMENT HAD
ALREADY COLLAPSED LONG BEFORE
THE QUAKE. SOMEHOW EVERYONE
SEEMS TO MANAGE HERE. IF IT’S
REALLY TRUE YOU WILL GET BEAUTY
FOR ASHES, A BECK SAED LATER
HAITI IS STILL WAITING. THE
SECRETARY OF STATE -- WE UPHOLD
THE MEMORIES OF THOSE WHO
PERISHED AND REFLECT ON THE
COURAGE, HEROISM AND STRENGTH
OF THE HAITIAN PEOPLE WHO
CONTINUE TO STRIFE TO BUILD A
COUNTRY THAT HONORS THE MEMORY
OF THOSE WHO PASSED. THE MOST
AMAZING HAPPENED AT FOUR: 53,
THE EXACT TIME WHEN THE
EARTHQUAKE STRUCK TEN YEARS
AGO. A RAINBOW APPEARED IN THE
SKY, PERHAPS A SYMBOL OF HOPE
FOR A COUNTRY THAT COULD USE A
LOT OF THAT. I’LL SEND IT BACK
TO YOU.
TO YOU. >> BEFORE WE LET YOU GO, WHAT
MOMENT DO YOU REMEMBER MOST
FROM TEN YEARS AGO?
>>REPORTER: THERE ARE A COUPLE
OF MOMENTS I REMEMBER. ONE IS
THE STILL OF DEATH IN THE AIR.
FOR THOSE WHO COULD NOT AFFORD
TO HAVE MASKS, THEY PUT
TOOTHPASTE UNDERNEATH THEIR
NOSE ON THEIR TOP LIP SO THEY
WOULD NOT SMELL THE DEATH IN
THE AIR. ALSO A SECOND THING
TOO. I SAW PEOPLE WALKING FROM
THE AIRPORT AFTER THEIR HOMES
HAD COLLAPSED AND THEY WERE
CHANTING AND SINGING GOSPEL
SONGS. I ASKED WHAT THEY WERE
DOING AND WHY THEY WERE DOING
IT. HE SAID THEY WERE DOING IT
BECAUSE MANY OF THEM FELT LIKE
THE EARTHQUAKE HAD SPARED THEM
THAT THEY HAD A GREATER
PURPOSE. THEY WERE HOPING TO
FIND THEIR PURPOSE IN THE DAYS
AND WEEKS AHEAD OF THEIR LIVES.