rescue of a baby pulled from the rubble barely alive. tonight, a remarkable twist in her story. here s elizabeth cohn. reporter: i was at this hospital in port-au-prince about seven weeks ago when i witnessed an incredible rescue of a tiny baby. she was just two months old when she was pulled from the rubble. she had been there alone for five days. she was found cradled in the arms of a dead woman rescuers believed was her mother. the baby girl was near death, barely breathing. doctors with project medishare at miami university fought to stabilize her so they could fly her to a hospital in the united states. doctors thought the baby was an orphan and told the driver they named the baby after her if she made it to the plane on time. she did. the driver s name was patricia. several hours later, baby patricia landed in florida seemingly on the verge of a new life. but it turns out this story is far from simple.
a couple from haiti has now come forward claiming that baby patricia is their daughter. they say she s no orphan and that her name isn t even patricia. it s jenny, and they want her back. we re told the parents live here in one of these tent cities. i m going to go try to find them. what does that mean? what do those words mean? it s beautiful. every time i think about jenny, i want to go crazy. i want to lose my man. reporter: this man and his wife say they are the parents separated from their daughter in the chaos that followed the quake. this is what s left of their home. photos of their daughter were destroyed. this is what they have left. and these are all other vaccinations, doctor s notes. okay. you say this is your baby translator: yes. jenny is my daughter. reporter: but the baby is now in florida foster care, and the
she was just two months old when she was pulled from the rubble. she had been there alone for five days. she was found cradled in the arms of a dead woman rescuers believed was her mother. the baby girl was near death, barely breathing. doctors with project medishare at miami university fought to stabilize her so they could fly her to a hospital in the united states. doctors thought the baby was an orphan and told the driver they would name the baby after her if she made it to the plane on time. she did. the driver s name was patricia. several hours later, baby patricia landed in florida seemingly on the verge of a new life. but it turns out this story is far from simple. a couple from haiti has now come forward claiming that baby patricia is their daughter. they say she s no orphan and that her name isn t even patricia. it s jenny, and they want her back. we re told the parents live here in one of these tent cities.
faith and allegiance was to the people there in the district. my constituents. senator ash bushve burn s supporters say that s principle. gay activists call it a lame excuse. time now for your top of the hour reset. i m tony harris in the cnn newsroom. across the country, angry students out of the classroom and on the streets demanding affordable education. the battered economy, and budget challenged schools in focus this hour. it is noon in haiti, where an infant rescued from the earthquake is now trapped in an international custody battle, the fight for baby patricia. california s financial crisis got deep for this second grader. saving carlos. let s get started. more and more schools across the nation being hit hard by budget cuts. students are getting fed up across the board. we are seeing middle schoolers in iowa protest plans to cut $33 million from des moines s school budget and slash more than 300
encroach to them. sure. give us your address, because we want to get many people tuned in. what is the address? they can e-mail us at cnnstudentnews.com, and we have a blog called a to z with carlos sousa, me personally. log on and tell us what you re thinking. let s do that, since we didn t have the addresses up, we ll put it on our blog page, cnn.com/tony, we ll put your addresses up, and if you d like to respond on our blog, on your blog. we just want the comments. everybody wins. good to see you. thank you very much, tony. rescued in haiti and flown to florida. she was introduced to the world as baby patricia. now a couple in haiti says that s not her name, and they want her back. ( cold wind blowing )