alix dorsainvil and her child were taken from the campus according to el roi haiti s website. dorsainvil is married to the director of the christian humanitarian aid group. i want to bring in now cnn national correspondent, athena jones for the very latest. what you re learning on this, at athena. what more do we know about the two people who allegedly have been abducted and the circum circumstances. reporter: hi, fredricka. we know that u.s. authorities are aware of the abductions and working with haitian authorities and u.s. intergovernmental agencies to try to get this resolved. this happened on thursday morning on the campus of el roi, a christian humanitarian group. the campus is near port-au-prince. this mother, alix addorsainvil d her child taken from that community. we have a at the same time, alix
attack. an investigation is under way. and down in the caribbean, u.s. authorities are working to secure the safe return of an american woman and her child after being kidnapped in haiti. the christian humanitarian group she was working for as a nurse says they were taken near port-au-prince thursday. this comes as a serious security crisis continues to unfold there amid violent armed clashes between criminal groups and the police. cnn national correspondent athena jones is following this story very closely and comes to us with more details. athena, what more do we know? reporter: hi, paula. we know that u.s. authorities are working with their haitian counterparts and with intergovernmental agency partners to try to resolve this crisis. what s not clear right now is who is responsible for this kidnapping and whether they ve made any demands whether for ransom or anything else. we do have a statement from el