and nothing happened. the rocket attacks but it was relatively safe. it certainly didn t collapse, it didn t do that until a few years was the policy or 92 when there was another turning page and concerns about chaotic and very ri5ky 5ituation5. about chaotic and very ri5ky situations. it wasn t at the moment and it became later. similarly at this time, there was a concern that kabul could de5cendent the absolute chao5 but it did not. and we still here, a lot ofjournali5t5 have come and gone and so, you make these decisions, you do it you can to prepare your hope for the best you prepare your hope for the best you prepare for the worst. and since i m talking to you, i would love to be able to say, notjust on my behalf but on the cameraman who worked with me and we were all here together for many weeks and we were very touched that so many of our viewers messages on e mail or on social media and
firestorms and trees being down. i talked to the fire chief of new london. by and large they dodged a bullet in flooding and that kind of damage. downed trees came down on top of this house on montawk avenue here in new london. the tree came crashing down on this older house. i just talked to the homeowner nate hall who was home when it happened. saw the tree there, and assessed some of the damage. he saw some of the power lines down around his house. still not quite a safe situation here, even though he was uninjured. no one in the house was injured by this. no one in the town fortunately has been reported injured in the town by the storm. the house was so solidly built, it didn t seem to cause damage to the roof. you can see it didn t collapse. a large part of the tree snapped and came down here. so you ve got that damage and he s assessing that and getting ready to call his insurance
that s the latest toll were killed by a 7.2-magnitude quake that hit the nation on saturday morning. but there is fear, of course, that that number could rise much, much higher, possibly into the thousands. according to the u.s. geological survey, it struck about 125 kilometers west of the capital port-au-prince. the caribbean nation is, still, recovering from the devastating earthquake, back in 2010 that killed hundreds of thousands of people. now, the deadly earthquake is, yet, another burden for haiti. a nation that really seems to be in a constant state of crisis. here s michael holmes with that report. michael. reporter: a powerful earthquake rocked haiti. some of the video circulating on social media showing just how devastating it was. this man saying he was lucky to be in a building that didn t collapse. but with streets filled with dust and rubble scattered on the ground, others were not so
state of crisis. its president was assassinated just over a month ago, and it s still recovering from the devastating earthquake, back in 2010, that killed hundreds of thousands of people. cnn s michael holmes reports. reporter: a powerful earthquake rocked haiti. some of the video circulating on social media showing just how devastating it was. this man saying he was lucky to be in a building that didn t collapse. but with streets filled with dust and rubble scattered on the ground, others were not so fortunate. the haitian prime minister has declared a state of emergency. one hospital in the southern city of jeremy said it is overwhelmed with patients and has set up tents outside. when it comes to medical need, said the prime minister, this is our biggest urgency. we have started to send medications and medical personnel to the facilities that are affected. we have sent more personnel to help out.
there was an extension, which i think is reasonable. again, the reality here is that this didn t collapse, the government didn t collapse. the security forces didn t collapse in a wholesale fashion just in these last days. it has been a steady erosion of capacity, both political capacity from kabul and military capacity. i would just note it s important what one of your previous presenters mentioned. that is that most of the cities of afghanistan did not fall by force of arms. they fell by political deal. this is as much of a political collapse as a military collapse. if there was a political collapse what does it say about the exit strategy and what has happened with the military as they have been working through, the u.s. military specifically, and how they when we look at this, how they may have been advised by the swiftness of the taliban takeover in that you are saying there were deals made. does this mean that our presence