at first on a site like this, it s hard to understand what you are actually looking at, like it takes time for your eyes to adjust to what you are actually seeing. there are notebooks scattered all around, a nurse s shoe. then you realize this whole area, discolored area, is actually the remains of people. joseph charles was a security guard at the school. every day now, he searches for the students he once tried to protect. they used to call me poppy joe, poppy joe, he says. this is really hard. in a locked storeroom, he collects the possessions he finds, old textbooks, nurse s shoes, even uniforms. he has to work quickly, however, a government bulldozer is on site removing what s left of the building. while rescue operations are delicate, precise and time-consuming, recovery operations in port-au-prince, as you can see, are anything but. they are just here to destroy and tear down what remains of the building. the backhoe just rips through the structure. the human remains mixed with
block near general hospital in the ruins of what was a nursing college. take a look t is very graphic though, we do want to warn you. nearly a month since the quake and port-au-prince is still a graveyard. in the ruins of the national nursing college, as many as 100 student remain crushed under concrete. at first on a site like this it is hard to understand what you are actually looking at, like it takes time for your eyes to adjust to what you are actually seeing there are notebooks scattered all around, a nurse s shoe. then you realize this whole area, discolored area is actually the remains of people. joseph charles was a security guard at the school. every day now, he searches for the student he is once tried to protect. they used to call me poppy joe, poppy joe, he says this is really hard. in a locked storeroom, he corrects the possessions he finds, old textbooks, nurse s shoes, even uniforms. he has to work quickly, however, a government bulldozer is on site removing what s
the heart-wrenching effort to recover the remains and treat them with dignity. reporter: nearly a month since the qaaic and port-au-prince is still a graveyard. 100 students remain crushed unconcrete. at first at a sight like this, it s hard to take it in, there s notebooks scattered all around. a nurse s shoe. then you realize this whole area, this colored area, is actually the remains of people. joseph charles was a security guard at the school. every day now he searches for the students he once tried to protect. they used to call me poppy joe, poppy joe, he says. this is really hard. in a locked storeroom he collects the personal possessions he finds. old textbooks, nurses shoes, even their uniforms. he has to work quickly, however. a government bulldozer is on site removing of what s left of the building. while rescue operations are delicate, precise, and time