Help Is Pouring Into Haiti

Its quite amazing reading that rescuers are finding people alive and here we are almost a week later.

Some people seem to have gotten trapped within buildings but are not seriously injured and have access to food. The story about the couple being rescued in a collapsed supermarket is stunning. They ate lots of peanut butter.

Miami Herald: More troops, humanitarian aid coming to Haiti; mass migration to U.S. not materializing

The 5,800 U.S. troops on the ground and aboard U.S. Navy and Coast Guard vessels off shore will be augmented by an additional 7,500 Marines scheduled to arrive today.

Lt. Gen. Keen said that about 2,000 Marines were set to join 1,000 U.S. troops on the ground, and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced Monday he wants 1,500 more U.N. police and 2,000 more troops to join the existing 7,000 military peacekeepers and 2,100 international police in Haiti.

...confirmed death toll in Haiti's calamitous earthquake reached 70,000 on Sunday.

The U.S. military, which has assumed control of airfield logistics, reported the airfield, which now has the capacity for 100 aircraft per day, has received 600 tons of supplies.

...the U.N. is feeding 40,000 people, and expects that figure to rise to 2 million within a month.

...more than 600,000 humanitarian rations have been brought into Haiti, USAID's Callaghan said, adding that 50,000 people were served meals in Port-au-Prince on Saturday. He said that 250,000 liters of water also are being distributed at 52 different points.