SEREMBAN: The Pantai water treatment plant in Seremban and Lakai water treatment plant in Jelebu are still unable to operate due to structural damage caused by the recent floods.
that constant threat along with rising poverty and political upheaval they just killed the president just a couple of weeks ago there have prompted thousands of people to leave haiti in hopes of a new life in the united states. here with me in person, fresh off reporting from haiti and the sorin border are nbc news correspondents, jacob soboroff and morgan radford.radford. i am in the best company i could imagine. you just got back from haiti. what did you find there? desperation. the final saturday i was there, there were 20 kidnappings in one day in port-au-prince. it s not just the violence, the violent gangs control much of the city. it is extreme, extreme poverty. we traveled to the south where the earthquake struck in lakai and saw hunger in a way i ve never seen before. and of course, there s the political instability with the assassination of the president. there s no elections coming in the foreseeable future. and you have more people
carissa etienne said many hospitals in the worst affected regions had been either damaged or destroyed. 0ur correspondent, james clayton has just sent this report from the centre of the disaster zone. we ve just got to a rural location about 25 minutes from the town of lakai, and what we are seeing here is utter devastation. more so than in in that town. so what we saw there was maybe one in six, one in seven in seven houses that had been flattened, but here, pretty much every single house has been totally destroyed. what these houses are made of are things like this, rock, poorly made cement and it s really, really heavy. of course, when they collapse in, they can cause these catastrophic injuries. and that s exactly what s happened here. we just spoke to one woman who lives in that house there and she says that her 15 year old son who has just about to finish school was killed when he was trying to charge his phone. devastating stories everywhere. one of the things that you notice
first coast guard helicopter to go in after tropical storm grace rolled through the region dumping heavy rain into haiti s southern peninsula. the town of lakai, largest town that bore the brunt of the earthquake over the weekend was swamped with rain and the challenge was how to evacuate some of the patients that still needed to be evacuated three days after the earthquake. we got there this morning, there were seven haitians boarding on our helicopter alone, some extremely young, a baby several months old, young child with a broken leg, needed to be evacuated along with his mother. it is difficult to see the sense of desperation in lakai which we saw yesterday and saw a hospital overwhelmed. men, women, children hooked up to ivs in the stifling heat. overnight, andrea, rain came