haitian earthquake. >> nearly a week after the quake struck, the donations are soaring. >> everything that happens, we're the first people there. >> john: and when children are in need, americans are most likely to take them in. tim and jennifer pierson made countless trips to haiti with their two daughters trying to adopt two boys who had no parents. government bureaucrats made it hard. >> every day i would show up to the embassy with all of our paperwork and they would ask for something else and i would bring something else. > it's been probably the wildest week of my life. >> i can't tell what the future holds really. i just know that it's going to be wonderful. >> john: americans adopt more needy kids and orphans over seas than are adopted by all the rest of the world's countries combined. >> tim is happy to have sons who call him poppy. >> poppy! [ laughter ] >> it was just so good to feel