followed his efforts and wanted to take part. >> what's so inspiring about watching the sedition hunters community go it's about publicly holding people accountable and ensuring that the public understands what happened on that day, even as republicans and others continue to try to rewrite history. >> and prosecutors have cited the work of these online sleuths in several court files and, of course, jake the fbi has credited the public in this. they received more than 200,000 digital tips from the public and, of course, at this point more than 500 people have been channelled. there's actually 575 by our latest count, but as you saw in that piece the public is doing a lot to help prosecutors out in these cases. >> reporter: and the key, of course, is they are sharing these tips privately so in case they made a mistake nobody innocent gets tagged. jessica schneider, thanks so much. more than 2,000 people dead after two disasters in haiti. cnn went to the earthquake epicenter where locals are taking action because the