Obama is offering to send in military/rescue troops and humanitarian aid.
Phone lines that are working are: Haiti-tel and Voila.
Digicel phone tower is down.
No landlines are working, no radio broadcast, no TV broadcast, no electricity...
Tsunami warning was in effect for hours after the earthquake began.
All windows are shattered in houses in la plaine
Houses are falling down everywhere.
Montana Hotel, Hotel Caribe, Christopher Hotel and the Exagon , all, badly damaged.
All the poor living on the mountains, in houses build on the mountains, feared suffered heavy, heavy casualty. Our report is that these houses on the mountains tumbled down, one on top of the other.
A terrible situation! Devastating. There's NEVER been an earthquake of this magnitude in Haiti. Major aftershocks happening... Tuesday's horrific earthquakes follow the four devastating storms/hurricances of September 2008 that caused almost 1,000 deaths, put the City of Goinaves under water for months, with Haiti suffering an estimated $1 billion dollar in damages.
Nothing works, no one to assist anyone as most people were in panic, injured, searching for friends and family members in the first hours of the quake.
No one knows where necessary personnel are
As of this writing, State Department had little contact with US Embassy compound (For the first three hours after the earth quake.)
There are about 1000 US personnel assigned to the US compound (our info at the time the US Embassy , the fifth largest US Embassy in the WORLD, was opened 2-years ago in Haiti). It was built after the 2004 Haiti Bush Regime change and it is the fifth largest US embassy, only after those in Iraq, Afghanistan, Germany and China.
There are 9000 UN troops in Haiti.
According to an AP report, "Brazil's Foreign Ministry said Wednesday some of Brazil's 1,266 soldiers in Haiti are missing. U.N. peacekeeping chief Alain Le Roy said late Tuesday that the missing included mission chief Hedi Annabi, who was in the building when the quake struck."
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