#1 for diabetic dry skin #1 for psoriasis symptom relief and #1 for eczema symptom relief gold bond champion your skin in urgent need for humanitarian relief in haiti as the nation faces one disaster after another. deadly earthquake followed by tropical storm grace this week has left thousands homeless and hunger. but the government still reeling front of the assassination of its president, relief groups are sounding the alarm. the death toll is nearing 2,200 people with more than 12,000 injured. unicef estimates 1.2 million haitians, including 540,000 children have been affected. crowds desperate for help have been grabbing food and supplies, frustrated with the slow pace of aid flowing into the country. with me now, the managing editor of the haitian times, also with me, ger lean joseph, the founder and executive director
resettle here as refugees, among the categories of individuals who could qualify for this new p2 status are current and former employees of u.s.-based news organizations, so media outlets, u.s.-based aid and development agencies, relief groups that receive u.s. funding, and u.s. government and nato operations, people who supported those. this actually meets one of the major criticisms that we ve heard from members of congress, and that is the bureaucratic holdups surrounding employment verification. in order to be eligible for a special imgrant visa, as you know from your reporting, you need to have worked for the u.s. government, whether it s the military or state department for two years, and then you need to be able to verify that. with this new p2 designation, these individuals would be able to sort of skip that step. but there is one huge, huge difference from the siv program with the p2. that is these individuals have to get out of the country, get out of afghanistan with their
move on, but realizing the sheer task they re now faced with will no doubt take years to recover from. power is still out on the majority of the island. we know that clean water, hard to come by. if it s not coming in bottled water being dropped off by relief groups, people don t really know where to get t this time tonight people are there, sleeping under trees, under whatever shelter they can, because dorian has simply taken away everything from them on that island. morgan, thank you for your reporting. you are so right. all of us who love the place have been scanning aerial pictures, looking for landmarks that appear familiar to us. in many cases, they are just gone. morgan chesky reporting from the bahamas tonight. many people have asked how to help, where to give. we ll put up a number for red cross. team rubicon, u.s. military veterans landed a team there starting yesterday. they ll be going back to help. morgan chesky from the bahamas.
the country s police now trying to block the caravan from moving toward the u.s. griff jenkins is live in mexico with the latest. griff? hey, jon, we are about 1500 miles from the border. we have been with this caravan all day long. let me show you around the square that they have taken over. they are all here, several thousand in this town, just sort of taking over the little basketball court here. you can see also over here a little bit of a community center. a lot of relief groups, mostly smaller church groups and local aid organizations, handing out water and clothes and supplies. but that offer that president nieto made was to give these migrants some temporary work, housing, healthcare, and even some schooling if these migrants would be willing to stop where
puerto rico is america. it was appalling. it s just really struck a nerve for me. well, one of the tremendous relief groups, aamericare is on the ground in puerto rico, tomorrow the organization is marking its 30th air lift benefit to support humanitarian work in the u.s. and around the world. we will be hosting that, joe and i, we participated for years, this year s ceremony will honor george h.w. bush and his wife, former first lady barbara bush. you can find more information on aamericare s.org. where is that happening? at a hangar?