Photo Essay: Haiti after the quake


This Jan. 12, 2010 photo shows an injured person being tended to at Hotel Villa Creole in Port-au-Prince. (AP Photo/Montreal La Presse, Ivanoh Demers)



This Jan. 12, 2010 photo shows damage to the Hotel Villa Creole in Port-au-Prince. (AP Photo/Montreal La Presse, Ivanoh Demers)



The destroyed interior of a building is seen on Wednesday Jan. 13, 2010 in Port-au-Prince. (AP Photo/Montreal La Presse, Ivanoh Demers)



This Jan. 12, 2010 photo shows a man helping an injured person at the Hotel Villa Creole in Port-au-Prince. (AP Photo/Montreal La Presse, Ivanoh Demers)



This Jan. 12, 2010 photo shows a man helping an injured person at the Hotel Villa Creole in Port-au-Prince. (AP Photo/Montreal La Presse, Ivanoh Demers)



Haiti's National Palace is seen after in Port-au-Prince, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010, the day after a powerful earthquake hit the country. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)



An injured child sits on the sidewalk in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)



People search for survivors under the rubble of a collapse building the day after an earthquake hit Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)



Survivors camp gather outside Haiti's National Palace, which was damaged by an earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)



A UN car is covered in rubble the day after an earthquake hit Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)



An earthquake victim is carried from a vehicle to a funeral home in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)



A person ties a dead woman's feet together as she is attended to on the side of a road the day after an earthquake hit Port-au-Prince. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)



Karim Applon, 7, sits on his aunt's lap while waiting to be evacuated for medical treatment in Port-au-Prince. (AP Photo/Carl Juste, The Miami Herald)



A family rushes and injured girl to a hospital, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010, in Port-AU-Prince, Haiti. (AP Photo/The Miami Herald, Patrick Farrell)



Girls cry as a little girl is removed from the rubble, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010, in Port-AU-Prince, Haiti. (AP Photo/The Miami Herald, Patrick Farrell)



An earthquake victim reacts as he is moved from a flatbed truck on to a plane to be transported for medical treatment in the Dominican Republic,Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Carl Juste, The Miami Herald)



People sit at a park a day after the destructive earthquake in downtown Port-au-Prince, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)



Haiti's National Palace is seen damaged in Port-au-Prince, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010 after a powerful earthquake struck the country on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jorge Cruz)



Injured people sit along Delmas road the day after an earthquake struck Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (AP Photo/Jorge Cruz)



People stand on rubble along Delmas road the day after an earthquake hit Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Jorge Cruz)



Debris lays in the street after an earthquake along the Delmas road in Port-au-Prince, Haiti (AP Photo/Jorge Cruz)



People carry an injured person after an earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, late Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Jorge Cruz)



Injured people are carried away in a truck after an earthquake in Delmas, Haiti, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Jorge Cruz)



An injured girl lies on the side of the road as she is attended to the day after an earthquake hit Port-au-Prince.(AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)



This still made from video provided by UNTV shows peacekeepers carrying a survivor out of rubble of the damaged MINUSTAH (United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti) headquarters in Port-au-Prince. (AP Photo/UNTV)



This Jan. 12, 2010 photo shows an injured person being tended to at Hotel Villa Creole in Port-au-Prince. (AP Photo/Montreal La Presse, Ivanoh Demers)



A woman cries after finding the body of a loved one after the earthquake in Port-au-Prince. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)



Haiti's Musician Wyclef Jean arrives at the airport in Port-au-Prince. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)



Homes affected by an earthquake are seen in Port-au-Prince. (AP Photo/Jorge Cruz)



A man sits next to a car after a powerful earthquake struck Port-au-Prince, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Cris Bierrenbach)



People stand in the streets after a powerful earthquake struck Port-au-Prince, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Cris Bierrenbach)



People walk through the streets after a powerful earthquake struck Port-au-Prince, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Cris Bierrenbach)



In this image made available by the American Red Cross in London, Wednesday Jan. 13, 2010, an earthquake survivor weeps in a shantytown on the outskirts of Port au Prince. (AP Photo/Matt Marek/American Red Cross, ho)



In this image made available by the American Red Cross in London, Wednesday Jan. 13, 2010, an earthquake survivor clutches his young son, in a shantytown on the outskirts of Port au Prince. (AP Photo/Matt Marek/American Red Cross, ho)



Rescuers peer into rubble while trying to retrieve a trapped man at a collapsed building a day after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010.(AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)



A man trapped in a collapsed building responds to questions from rescue workers in Port-au-Prince, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010, the day after a powerful earthquake hit Haiti. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)



Bystanders watch as rescue crews work into the night to free a man trapped beneath the rubble of a collapsed building in Port-au-Prince, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)



Rescuers work to free trapped survivors and find dead victims in a four story building that collapsed in the 7.0-magnitude earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)



A man gestures behind a person trapped in the rubble of a collapsed building in Port-au-Prince Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. A powerful earthquake struck Haiti on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jorge Cruz)



A man gestures behind a person trapped in the rubble of a collapsed building in Port-au-Prince Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. A powerful earthquake struck Haiti on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jorge Cruz)



Gunsly Milsoit, left, comforts his brother-in-law Leo Pierre after Leo's wife and Gunsly's sister, Milsoit Kelly, who was three months pregnant, died in a four story building collapse from the 7.0-magnitude earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)



Rescuers peek under rubble to talk to trapped survivor Manuel Lora at the site of a four story building collapse from the 7.0-magnitude earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)



In this photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, containers are toppled over in the port of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday Jan. 13, 2009 after an earthquake struck the region Tuesday. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard)

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The world responds



Saintanise Ducas sheds tears as she talks about her relatives in Haiti in the "Little Haiti" section of Miami, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)



President Barack Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, makes a statement about the earthquake in Haiti, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010, at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)



Edeline B. Clermont weeps in the "Little Haiti" area of Miami, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010, as she talks to her sister in Boston after both were unable to contact relatives in Haiti after hearing news about the earth the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that shook the island. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)



Mitchelle Monroe prays for the victims of the Haiti's earthquake during a mass at the Cathedral of St. Mary's Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010, in Miami, Florida's Haitian community. (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter)



Members of the China International Search and Rescue Team depart on a plane for Haiti during a ceremony held at the airport in Beijing Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. (AP Photo)



Yves Louis Lys wipes the tear from her eye as she talks about the Haitian earthquake before a Haitian relief meeting Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010 in Evanston, Ill. Lys was scheduled to return to her native Haiti for the first time in 15 years last week but had to postpone her trip. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)



Members of the Los Angeles County Fire Department's Task Force 2 Search and Rescue team have a meeting to prepare to leave for Haiti to help in that country's devastating earthquake at the March Air Reserve Base in Moreno Valley, Calif., on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Francis Specker)



U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton discusses the earthquake in Haiti and announces she is canceling the remainder of her Pacific trip during a news conference at U.S. Pacific Command at Camp Smith, Hawaii, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Lucy Pemoni)



Two parishioners hold hands during a prayer service at Trinity United Methodist Church in Hackettstown, N.J., Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010, for victims of the earthquake in Haiti. The church has a 15 member team led by its pastor, Frank Fowler who were distributing personal care kits to hospitals, orphanages, clinics and schools when the quake hit. All members are all reported safe. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)



A prayer service is held at Trinity United Methodist Church in Hackettstown, N.J., Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010, for victims of the earthquake in Haiti. The church has a 15 member team led by its pastor, Frank Fowler who were distributing personal care kits to hospitals, orphanages, clinics and schools when the quake hit. All members are all reported safe. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)



Volunteers sort through clothing donated for Haitian earthquake relief at the Haitian Multi-Ethnic Community Center Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010, in Houston. Marie Baptiste, president of the Haitian Multi-Cultural Association in Houston, said their community numbers at least 10,000 in the local area. They are seeking relief supplies, including hygiene products, first-aid kits and cash. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Brett Coomer)



Yvematte Toussaint Rene, a 24-year-old Florida Tech student, watches news of the Haiti earthquake on the television in her Fern Park, Fla.. apartment, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. Rene moved to Florida from her hometown Port-Au-Prince, Haiti in 2002. Most of her family is still on the island. She is desperately awaiting to hear whether or not they survived the massive earthquake that ravaged the island Tuesday. (AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Gary W. Green)



A pallet containing communication equipment is loaded on a C-130 heading to Haiti tonight at the Homestead Air Reserve Base in Homestead, Fla., Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. On Tuesday,On Tuesday, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake shook Haiti. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)



Rescue dog Duncan peers between the legs of his handler, Peruvian firefighter Gustavo Villavisencio, as they prepare to depart for Haiti to participate in rescue efforts after the 7.0-magnitude earthquake, at their base in Lima, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Karel Navarro)



U.S. military personnel prepare goods for Southern Command support personnel in Haiti at the Homestead Air Reserve Base in Homestead, Fla., Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. On Tuesday,On Tuesday, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake shook Haiti. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)



Oswald Piquron, stands outside a Haitian American community center building in Miami's Little Haiti, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010 after he spent the day trying to contact friends and relatives in Haiti, after it was hit by a massive earthquake. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)



Linda Felix, left, is consoled by Carole Berlanger as she holds pictures of her sister Ketna, pictured with her grandson Oliver, both living in Haiti, at the Novato Horeb Seventh Day Adventist Church in Novato, Calif., Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. Haitian residents of the Northern California town grieved Wednesday over uncertainty of their relatives' safety following a powerful earthquake in Haiti. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)



Maxine Berlanger, 7, cries as she waits to hear news from close relatives in Haiti at the Novato Horeb Haitian Seventh Day Adventist Church in Novato, Calif., Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. Haitian residents of the Northern California town grieved Wednesday over uncertainty of their relatives' safety following a powerful earthquake in Haiti. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)



Richard Laurent, second from left, cries after receiving a phone call in New York informing him that a cousin living in Haiti was killed in the devastation wrought by the earthquake, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)



U.N. humanitarian chief John Holmes speaks to reporters during a news conference about the earthquake in Haiti, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010 at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)



In this photo released by the United Nations, former United States President and current United Nations special envoy to Haiti, Bill Clinton, left, meets with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at United Nations headquarters, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/The United Nations, Eskinder Debebe)



Elizabeth Kreitler, with the Fairfax County Urban Search and Rescue team deployed by USAID, looks down at Racker, a FEMA certified live human search dog, before boarding a plane for their rescue mission to Haiti, in Sterling, Va. on Wednesday Jan. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)



French rescue workers are seen at Paris Roissy airport en route to Haiti, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. International Red Cross spokesman Paul Conneally said a third of Haiti's 9 million people may need emergency aid and that it would take a day or two for a clear picture of the damage to emerge. The United Nations said the capital's main airport was "fully operational" and that relief flights would begin Wednesday. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)