he may be trying to settle, come to a deal. why the change in heart, congressman rangel? that s all ahead unless breaking news changes everything. first at 3:00, an enormous day on planet blago. the defense wrapped up closing arguments claiming prosecutors failed to prove anything. up next, the case heads to the jury where a decision will be reached. today in court an attorney for the former illinois governor blagojevich tried to explain why our blago never took the stand. sam adam, jr. called his silence the elephant in the room. the reason, according to the attorney, there was no need to testify because the feds never had a case. prosecutors would disagree and point to hundreds of f.b.i. wiretaps as proof of corruption. remember these? i ve got this thing and it s a [ bleep ] golden. and i m just not giving it up for [ bleep ] nothing. i [ bleep ] busted my [ bleep ] and gave your grandmother a [ bleep ] ride on a bus. what do i get? only 13% of y all think i m doing a go
captioned by closed captioning services, inc. shepard: tonight, the new estimate on lives lost in the earthquake. and our jonathan hunt with the orphans, as future adoptive parents try to get them to safety. i m shepard smith shepar tonig. the daunting task amid the horror in haiti. more food is arriving. more water. evemore troops. but it is not enough. the people are starving. please help us. tonight, desperate times on the ground in haiti and some familiar faces arrive to help. plus, children at risk. there are 26 babies here. right now it is an open question. shepard: jonathan hunt returns to a haitian orphanage and for an american couple wait to adopt two of these children, images they have waited too long to see. it is very emotional. shepard: , tonighttonight, g love across thousands of miles. even as workers move and bury the bodies by the thousands and victims wait for aid to come, one u.n. spokes woman says hope continues in haiti. still people alive
lives and in other cases looters. in others, officials either can t or won t stop people digging through buildings to find supplies. when aid shows up, just getting it can be dangerous. people who have gone days without food and clean water are sometimes fighting for whatever scraps are available. the troops in charge of handing out provisions have said they ve tried to keep order with riot guyer and about a tans. the united states military says some relief drops have been orderly with thousands of people waiting patiently. military leader tell me tell us they expect 11,000 troops by the end of today, 4,000 on the ground, 7,000 on shore. former president clinton arrived in port-au-prince a few hours ago with his daughter, chelsea. he s the united nations envoy to haiti. maybe no population is more vulnerable that are the orphans. jonathan hunt found and orphanage where dozens of children are just trying to hang on. there are 26 babies here. many of them, in fact most, were