A U.S. Navy helicopter takes off Tuesday in front of the National Palace after members of the U.S. Army 82nd Airborne, front, landed in Port-au-Prince. U.S. Navy helicopters touched down on the grounds of Haiti’s damaged presidential palace bringing reinforcements in the struggle for security and earthquake disaster relief.
Damage from the Jan. 12 earthquake can be seen from the air over Delmas, a neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital. Adam Buhler, 24, and his wife, Karen, 25, were in Haiti when the earthquake struck but managed to get out of the country within a couple of days.
Adam Buhler took this photo from Guy’s Guesthouse, a hotel on Rue Liberte in Jacmel, Haiti, just before the earthquake hit last Tuesday. Minutes later, in the photo below, he captured the destruction wrought by the magnitude 7.0 temblor on the same street.
Members of the Los Angeles County Fire Department’s Search and Rescue Team rescue a Haitian woman from a collapsed building Sunday in downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Survivors of Tuesday’s earthquake extend their arms as U.S. troops with the 82nd Airborne Division distribute water Sunday in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The troops gave out more than 9,000 bottles of water and 2,000 meals Sunday.
Looters fight for goods taken from collapsed shops in Port-au-Prince on Sunday. U.N. peacekeepers patrolling Haiti’s capital said popular anger is rising and warned authorities and aid organizations to increase security. The scene was more serene in other areas on Sunday, as the first church services since Tuesday’s earthquake were conducted and worshipers gave thanks to God for their survival.
People run toward a U.S. helicopter as it makes a water drop Saturday near a country club used as a forward operating base for the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Relief groups and officials are focused on moving aid flowing into Haiti to survivors of the powerful earthquake that hit the country on Tuesday.
Members of a rescue team from Israel carry a man they freed Saturday from the rubble of a building that collapsed during the earthquake in Port-au-Prince.
Earthquake survivors gather in a makeshift camp they set up on basketball courts in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Friday. Three days after a massive earthquake hit Haiti, relief supplies were beginning to reach parts of the affected areas but desperation was also starting to take hold. Hopes for further rescues were dwindling, and the smell of death hung heavily throughout the devastated capital. Read more of the developments on page 2A.
The earthquake-damaged National Palace is seen from the air Saturday in Port-au-Prince.
Cindy Terasme screams after seeing the feet of her 14-year-old brother, Jean Gaelle Dersmorne, in the rubble of the collapsed St. Gerard School in Port-au-Prince.
A group of women react Thursday as the daughter of the woman, at center, is still missing after the earthquake in Port-au-Prince.
Midou Fernande Leroy, 31, is treated for injuries received in Tuesday’s earthquake in Port-au-Prince.
People line up for gasoline Thursday in Port-au-Prince.
People search for survivors Wednesday under the rubble of a collapsed building the day after an earthquake hit Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Several people with ties to the Lawrence area were in Haiti when the 7.0-magnitude quake struck.
An injured person is seen Tuesday after an earthquake hit Port-au-Prince, Haiti. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake, the largest ever recorded in the area, rocked Haiti on Tuesday.
People carry an injured person after an earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010. The largest earthquake ever recorded in the area rocked Haiti on Tuesday. The earthquake had a preliminary magnitude of 7.0 and was centered about 10 miles (15 kilometers) west of Port-au-Prince.
A destroyed building near the Hotel Villa Creole in Port-au-Prince is seen on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010 after the strongest earthquake in more than 200 years struck Haiti.
This photo provided by Carel Pedre shows people running past rubble of a damaged building Tuesday in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. One of the largest earthquakes ever recorded in the area hit Haiti on Tuesday, a catastrophic blow to one of the poorest countries in the world.
A man carries an injured child outside Hotel Villa Creole in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010 after the strongest earthquake in more than 200 years struck Haiti.
Haiti's National Palace is seen damaged in Port-au-Prince, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010 after a powerful earthquake struck the country on Tuesday.
Survivors walk next to a body lying in the rubble along Delmas road in Port-au-Prince, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. A powerful earthquake struck Haiti on Tuesday.
Injured people sit along Delmas road the day after an earthquake struck Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Haiti's National Palace is seen damaged in Port-au-Prince Wednesday, Jan 13, 2010. A powerful earthquake struck the country on Tuesday.
Bodies lie in the rubble along Delmas road the day after an earthquake struck Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
A person approaches a body lying in the rubble along Delmas road the day after an earthquake struck Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
People stand on rubble along Delmas road the day after an earthquake hit Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Marie LaRouche, 50, prays for her family and victims of the Haiti earthquake disaster at St. Jerome church in Brooklyn, New York, Wednesday Jan. 13, 2010. "My aunt is the only aunt I have left there," said LaRouche, who have not been able to reach relatives in Carrefour and Petionville, Haiti. "We are still recovering from a hurricane. We can only leave it in the hands of God."
United States Agency for International Development (USAID) search and rescue officials, and K-9 Units, from Fairfax, Va., walk out of a cargo terminal to board a plane to Haiti, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010, at Washington Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Va.
An injured person on a stretcher arriving from Haiti is taken to a hospital in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Wednesday.
Injured people are carried away in a truck after an earthquake in Delmas, Haiti, Wednesday.
A man trapped in the rubble of a collapsed government building waits to be rescued in downtown Port-au-Prince, Thursday
A man gestures behind a person trapped in the rubble of a collapsed building in Port-au-Prince Wednesday.
Displaced people gather in an open area in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday. An earthquake measuring more than 7 on the Richter scale hit Haiti on Tuesday, leaving thousands dead and many displaced.
People sit in the rubble of their collapsed home in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday.
A coffin containing the body of an earthquake victim sits in the street in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
The injured camp out as they wait to be attended to by medical NGO (Hope For Haiti), Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010, in Petionville, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Outside the Villa Creole Hotel, the injured from the surrounding area have come for shelter and medical attention.
A man ties a body down with string to assure its position after the earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday.
A woman lifts up the sheet covering a body victim of an earthquake at the morgue in Port-au-Prince, Thursday.
Workers move the bodies of the victims of the earthquake onto a bulldozer at the morgue in Port-au-Prince, Thursday.
In this photo released by the United Nations, buildings affected by an earthquake lay in ruins in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday.
A young girl gets medical attention for her injuries, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010, in Petionville, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Outside the Villa Creole Hotel, the injured from the surrounding area have come for shelter and medical attention. The injured camp out as they wait to be attended to by medical NGO (Hope For Haiti).
A woman reacts in a public square where victims take rest after an earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday.
People walk by a woman lying dead in the rubble of a collapsed building in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday.
Damaged buildings are seen in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday.
Survivors walk on a street damaged during Tuesday's earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Thursday.
An earthquake survivor sits by a fire in the street in Port-au-Prince, late Wednesday.
People walk by a body lying in the street in the aftermath of the earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Thursday.
A man walks in a neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti Tuesday.
People walk by a building that collapsed during Tuesday's earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Thursday.
A person's leg hangs from of a building that collapsed during an earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday.
A family camps outside with an injured relative lying on the ground Thursday in Port-au-Prince. Afraid to spend the night in their homes, most residents of the city are camping in the open after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti on Tuesday.
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 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
A young French citizen, evacuated from Haiti, is carried after she arrived back to France at Orly airport, south of Paris, Friday Jan. 15, 2010. Red cross workers distributed some blankets to the survivors before they met with their families. Two planes carrying more than 150 survivors arrive at Orly airport.
President Barack Obama stands with Vice President Joe Biden as he makes a statement about the earthquake in Haiti, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010, at the White House in Washington.
Two-year-old Redjeson Hausteen Claude reacts to his mother, Daphnee Plaisin, after he is rescued Thursday night from a collapsed home by Belgian and Spanish rescuers in the aftermath of the powerful earthquake in Port-au-Prince. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti on Tuesday, and time is running out to rescue anyone who may still be trapped alive in the many buildings.
A young earthquake survivor holds a bowl as he waits in line for high-protein biscuits from the World Food Program on Saturday in Port-au-Prince.
Damage from the Jan. 12 earthquake can be seen from the air over Delmas, a neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital. Adam Buhler, 24, and his wife, Karen, 25, were in Haiti when the earthquake struck but managed to get out of the country within a couple of days.
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