states, saying this is a politically motivated case at this point. they feel that the judge in the initial ruling was biased against polanski. they put in all of these appeals. so far the justice ministry has kept quiet and today is decision time. that s why everyone s watching. the los angeles district attorney says if you got complaints, come back to court, roman polanski, where you were supposed to be sentenced in the first place and fight it out there but not from overseas. an interesting day ahead, thank you, atika. today s another dubious anniversary. six months since the devastating earthquake hit haiti, we ll check back in with aid workers who have been there for months trying to help had the people. are things getting better? what has changed and what still needs to be done? 34 minutes after the hour. care this life was protected. seems you ve always been right there this life was saved. soothing sadness healing pain and this life was made easier. making smiles
reporter: many haitians are now taking matters into their own hands. this man is building a new house to replace the one that was destroyed in the earthquake. i couldn t afford new construction material, he says, so i scavenged parts from the streets and from the rubble. from the rubble of a devastated city a new generation of makeshift house something going up, likely even more vulnerable to the floods and killer storms that plague this country. if it sometimes feels like haitians are resigned to their fate, it is perhaps because the presidential palace is still in ruins. even the most powerful people in this country have barely begun picking up the pieces six months after the earthquake. ivan, the government minister that you interviewed there said much of what the government is doing is preparing the population for the hurricane season? exactly what is that?
heard about, when is it going to come? when are we going to see a dramatic change in our desperate lives? take a listen to what one camp resident had to say to me, drew. where this money go? where this money go? because if the people still live like that, and they don t distribute food, they don t give nothing, where this kind of sum money go out? reporter: there is growing frustration, drew, is putting the haitian government and the united nations and aid organizations here a bit on the defensive. they re insisting that there have been some bright spots, some silver lining here. namely, you haven t had any huge outbreak of disease or serious starvation or violence in the six months after the earthquake struck this area. we spoke to the haitian prime minister. he says that some of this frustration stems from the fact that haiti has really had bad government over the last 40
and scrap metal and wood to try to make more permanent shelters. the camp is just starting to wake up right now, it is a little after 5:00 in the morning here. i have to say when you walk around this city six months afterwards, it often feels like very little has changed since the day we first arrived here the morning after the earthquake. drew, take a look at this report. reporter: on january 12th, 2010, the earth shook port-au-prince. more than 220,000 people were killed, more than 300,000 injured. the city and large stretches of surrounding countryside were devastated. six months later, not much appears to have changed. it still looks like a bomb just dropped on this city. when you walk around port-au-prince it often looks like the earthquake just happened yesterday. the government has barely begun the clean-up process. roads in the center of the city are still blocked by debris and
month, five months after the earthquake. that s part of why things are going so slowly here. ivan, it seems odd that the commission is then criticizing whether or not aid is coming in to that country because they don t really have a plan it seems to me, from the outside looking in, to use the money once it gets there, if it gets there. reporter: well, and one of the arguments that the commission uses, or that the prime minister uses, how can we plan on how to resettle the armies of homeless people here if we don t know a schedule of when that money is going to come in. but the government here has come under pressure and under criticism for example from the senate foreign relations committee, a report issued last month saying that the haitian government lacked leadership on solving these problems. there s a bit of a blame game going on. what it comes down to is again the people behind me, 1.5 million people, 1 in 9 haitians living in these temporary shelters right now. the hurricane