nbc chief science and health correspondent robert bazell in port-au-prince this morning. i saw your report last night on nightly news and one of the things that struck me is here we are six months later an the haitian president is nowhere to be found. that s unbelievable to me. reporter: well, he s been widely criticized for a lack of coordination. but believe me, chuck and is savann savannah, there s no shortage of people to blame for the miserable and i mean miserable conditions. there s 1.5 million people living in structures on a day like today, very hot, it s 140, 150 degrees inside the structure. rains here frequently now. their tents or their shanties leak. and it is just it is beyond belief how bad it is and how little changed since the few days after the earthquake but among the people, not just the haitian government that s certainly deserved some of the blame, foreign governments have
today. rob. yes, brooke. after a quiet month of february, march is certainly starting off with some severe weather. a tornado doing damage, destroying some homes across western oklahoma and the threat continues for tomorrow. we ll talk more about that at the top of the hour. reporter: i m sara sidner in port-au-prince, haiti, where the judge in the kidnapping case is delving further into the details trying to determine whether or not to release the last remaining accused missionary. i ll have details coming up. reporter: after the haitian earthquake, an infant who s injured is airlifted to miami, thought to be an orphan, but now a couple in haiti says she belongs to them and they want her back. i ll have that story at the top of the hour. thank you. also ahead, the swelling ranks of americans too broke to retire. what you can now do to afford your golden years later on. [ male announcer ] when we built our first hybrid,
in port-au-prince, our cnn correspondent, major development in the case today of the ten missionaries detained last week while taking trying to take 33 children out of haiti. what happened to them today, karl? reporter: well, it was a real bombshell announcement because today the ten americans went before prosecutors who decided their fate. and the prosecutors have decided to charge all ten americans with kidnapping children and criminal association. these are crimes that are considered so serious there s no possibility of bail, and for the charge of kidnapping technically under haitian law that could carry a maximum sentence of life. of course, when it comes to trial, if it gets that far, then a haitian judge will look and consider aggravating circumstance, so technically life is a maximum sentence. for that on the charge of criminal association, we understand that the sentence
larry: in a couple moments we ll meet the prime minister of haiti. let s check in with karl penhaul in port-au-prince, our cnn correspondent, major development in the case today of the ten missionaries detained last week while taking trying to take 33 children out of haiti. what happened to them today, karl? reporter: well, it was a real bombshell announcement because today the ten americans went before prosecutors who decided their fate. and the prosecutors have decided to charge all ten americans with kidnapping children and criminal association. these are crimes that are considered so serious there s no possibility of bail, and for the charge of kidnapping technically under haitian law that could carry a maximum sentence of life. of course, when it comes to trial, if it gets that far, then a haitian judge will look and
knowing that they are very devout christians i asked them what the lord had decided for them today, and there was no response to any of the questions. they certainly look solemn, and when they were loaded up into one of the white suvs, the larger of the two groups, eight of the americans, were in the white suv, and they quietly began to sing a hymn, but certainly no comment, and many of them ant what is happening now. but no tears either. solemn faces, and hymns, but no tears and no comments to the press, ali. all right. karl, stay on the story, and if you have a new development, call us in and we will put you on tv to tell us what the new development is with the remaining americans. carl penhaul in port-au-prince, haiti. when we come back, we will go to the white house and ed henry is dressed better than normal there, and he must have peeked into my wardrobe to see