thank you for joining us. more on haiti in america's news room. >> we have a fox news alert on the disast ner haiti, we are getting brand new images coming into fox that gives us a bird's eye view of this disaster. here are the satellite images of the before and after. this was the after, it was a 7.0 quake that struck, and you can see the incredible devastation. i mean, if you look at the righthand side, it looks like a building under construction, in fact it is the reverse, it is the destruction of all these buildings that we have seen. that is the national cathedral in port-au-prince. there was very sad news about many of the people involved in the catholic church, which is so instrumental to the work being done in hait eevment no word if anybody was inside the cathedral at that horrible moment. good morning, everybody, from here in new york, i'm martha maccallum in "america's newsroom". >> i'm gregg jarrett in for bill hemmer, who has just arrived a short time ago in port-au-prince. we should be hearing from bill any time now, and we're also expect to go hear from the president, president obama will be talking about relief efforts. we're going to bring that to you live, as soon as it begins. martha: let's go to steve harrigan in port-au-prince since yesterday, he has been talking to people there, and steve, give us a sense of what it's like, standing where you are now. >> reporter: march that, we've been moving around the city of port-au-prince, really hearing peoples' stories, the last place we were at, we saw a girl who had two fingers chopped off in the earthquake and a woman with two broken legs. neither was going to a hospital, so we tried to set out to find a hospital to see if any was working. the hospital has been flattened like a pancake, one concrete slab on top of the other. the closest thing we can get to a hospital is really what we're seeing right here, people lined up, hoping for medical aid from foreign aid workers and really, you have a woman down here with her child in a blood-stained sheet, wrapped up to keep the flies off, and a man behind her who we saw was actually delivered in a wheel barrow. you have critically ill patient, lying on the ground and that one was delivered by wheel barrow. it gives you a sense of the challenges involved here, what you're trying to treat the wounded and the very severe at the same time that hospitals have completely collapsed due to that earthquake. martha, back to you. martha: steve, one of the things that we're thinking about as we look at this from here is once you get somebody out of the rubble, you know, once you've successfully gotten somebody out, there's really nobody to go, right, there's nowhere to take that person, once you have rescued them, and that seems to be very specifically demonstrated in what we're looking at behind you there, steve. >> reporter: and even today, that rubble pulling is still going on, all across the city. just on our drive here, we saw a man, haitians working with their bare hands to pull someone out of the rubble. they're actually moving the bricks by themselves. you so often in these scenes see sniffer dogs and men in orange uniforms, emts. you see nothing like that here. what you see are people in sandals or bare feet, using their hands to try to get their loved ones. it's where people have come dependent, at least short term, on the help from their immediate families to get them out if they can. we just saw five minutes ago a woman pulled from the rubble, she didn't make it. last night we saw some successful attempts but it's still going on here, the search for survivors, even at this time, and now the heat is starting to pick up so obviously the conditions will get a lot more difficult on the ground in port-au-prince. martha: the people lined up behind you, you said they're waiting for foreign aid workers or health workers that might be coming in. what is your sense of how far away they are right now? >> reporter: well, we've seen cases that we thought were absolutely disastrous, to see a five-year-old girl with, you know, basically a stump of a hand left, after the earthquake, and being refused medical care because she's deemed not serious enough. it's really mind-boggling to see what is considered serious here. we just saw a woman's body pulled out of the rubble, we couldn't tell if she was dead or alive and no one with us could tell, either. it was just amateurs there, trying to help rescue her. it's really the unqualified, often the uneducated, and certainly almost always the extremely poor who are doing what they can with what they have at hand to try and save who they can. martha: steve, you know, if those people are being turned down for help, or they're not deemed serious enough at this point, someone who is in serious enough condition, where are they even being taken? >> reporter: well, it's really word of mouth, who can treat you. we've seen people try and take their wounded relatives to a hospital, yet turned away or come back because of frustration because the line is simply too long, and it's the kind of city now which it's become a very difficult place simply to move around. we saw one seriously wounded man put in the back of a car, and then there was a great effort to try and start the car, and to get gasoline for the car. so the simple act of getting someone desperately hurt to the hospital is complicated by many factors. first, there's no hospital. second, there's no car. third, if there is a car, it might not work. and fourth, even if it works, there's no gasoline. so there are a number of hurdles to reach before you can get treated. it's going to take a lot of patience and a lot of effort to get some of these people help. martha: steve, what with the -- about the basics like water? is there anybody distributing water to the people on the streets behind you as of yet? >> reporter: of course, there is really nothing that we can see going on right here. no tent, no shelter, no distribution. it's basically people lying on a mat, if they have one, on the concrete, and hoping the help will come. help may eventually come but certainly it's slow. it's a number of challenges getting help here as well, as we've talked about over the past two days. it's an island nation whose airport has been damaged so getting aid in here has been tough. there have been heroic struggles by the u.s. military, by the u.n., who have lost a number of their own people to try and get people here but it's certainly not easy and as you can tell, it's certainly not slowing now. when you hear, you know, cliches about the aid is pouring in, you really have to judge for yourself. you know, there's wounded, and they're circumstances and they're dying here on the concrete. there's certainly no sense in this main hospital area of any aid pouring in at the moment. martha: what about communications, steve, in terms of anyone getting a message to people on the ground, that, you know, we're coming, we should there be in about an hour and a half, please go to this area for help, anything along those lines in terms of, you know, giving people some kind of direction about what's coming and where to get it? martha: -- >> reporter: you're right, in a world without cell phones, where most communication is shut down, it creates a whole other danger, and that is the danger of rumor. first of all, you can't contact people like the airport control tower or your contacts here, your local hire, to try and get people. -- get help. that's all begun. it's very basic communication. without that communication, you also get rumor about what's coming. we saw last night driving around, thousands and thousands of people streaming down from the hillsides, they were told earlier that the water was rising. it was a rumor, it was false. but rumors in an age, in a place where there's no real communication can set thousands of people on the move, and really cause panic. martha: you know, i guess -- john what else to say at this point, looking at that situation, other than our hearts are squashed and our real tangible help will go out to the people there as quickly as possible. steve harrigan, you've covered a lot of stories like this, this one is a devastating one to watch unfold and we'll be checking in with you very soon, steve. thank you so much. >> reporter: in the meantime, back in the united states, obviously a lot of concern for the many families with loved ones in haiti. right now, one college campus is awaiting word on information about a group of students and faculty in haiti when the earthquake struck. twelve students from lynn university in south florida were on a humanitarian mission to distribute food and clothing and visit orphanages so far. the school has received word that parents have heard five students are safe. other parents who have yet to hear anything at all are trying to remain hopeful. >> a real loving person, it was something the school was offering, she really wanted to do it, she felt like it was a good cause and wanted to go on this trip. i talked to her sunday night and she was very upbeat, saying she had to get up at the crack of dawn, and looked on her facebook post, she always posts something there, it said it's 36 degrees and i'm out to save the world. >> the tight -- title of this course was journey for hope, haiti, and that's what we've got, we're hopeful. we know these students, we know this factually, we trust that they're out of harm's way. gregg: as a reminder, americans looking for information on loved ones in haiti can call the state department's help line: martha: relief teams and supplies, we understand, are on the way there, arriving from ash the -- around the world in haiti. steve hair i gone is -- harrigan is not seeing signs yet but we do know cargo planes are lifting off and gathering supplies from all different parts of this one and -- country and the world as well. the u.s. military is taking a lead effort in this these efforts, as they always do in these situations. several planes loaded with supplies have been sent, we know that more are going to be taking off today. there are also teams of medical personnel going, security forces are headed down there, special tactical teams have been sent. about 2000 marines, we're told, from the first marine expeditionary unit out of camp lujune have been deployed and a spokesman said up to 3500 groups from fort bragg, also heading to haiti to be of help, the first 100 of them should arrive today and hopefully they will start to get a handle on what is a very desperate situation in haiti. gregg: coming in, satellite imagery is giving us brand new photographs of the devastation in haiti, the folks at goi have helped track nuclear site necessary iran and north korea, and now they're providing us with new bird's eye images of haiti before and after the devastating quake. joining me now on the telephone is mark brender, telecommunications director at goi and a bunch of government buildings have collapsed and we're looking at one such building right now. describe that. >> you're looking at the ministry of justice, and good morning, and many of the buildings, most of the buildings from our satellite appear to be damaged. the rooflines do not look in tact at all, and we see haiti not from air space above the country, but from outer space, and we own and operate the goi-i earth imaging satellite, it has a ground resolution of about half a meter, of 19 inches, so from 423 miles in space we can look down at the imagery you're looking at now and we can see the complete devastation of the central part of port-au-prince. gregg: mark, let's go to the national palace, we have a before and after picture here, and describe that. >> the national palace, actually, it's been around almost for 100 years, it was built in 1918, and it was -- ca see on the image on the right, the after image, the center core of it, the whole roofline has been damaged. now, pictures from the ground, the palace is damaged a lot more, but from outer space, you can see the damage to the center part of the e-shape palace. on the left, our satellite image from two years ago, you see the very distinct, clear roof line. gregg: our next one is the national cathedral, much bee loved. take a look at that. what do you see here? >> well, the national cathedral, actually, they began building it in 1884, and the national cathedral, if you notice, there's no roof on t. on the picture on the righthand side. while the walls appear to be in tact, the roof is virtually gone. gregg: yeah, mark brender, goi, keep in touch with us, let us know more of your images, if you can. thank you very much. martha? martha: we're going to be following every development out of haiti and be in touch with bill hemmer soon, but there are stories we want to keep you up on, including word out of the homeland security department there could be a new terror threat out of yemen. serious debate in washington on the health care bill is also going on right now. they're proposing some very big changes that you need to know about in terms of how this is going to be paid for, this trillion dollars bill, and certainly, that will affect all of us, and we want to tell you the very latest as they continue to negotiate in washington on all of that. and millions of dollars are suddenly flowing into the massachusets senate race. who is giving all that money? and what it could mean for the senate, balance of power, that is the hottest political story happening right now. it is happening in massachusets but it sort of affects the entire country. gregg: it surely is. plus we're going to have more on haiti in three minutes. for now, peter doocy, at the command center in the united states, on the military and relief efforts. peter. >> reporter: all the coordination for the u.s. relief efforts you guys have been talking about coming through here at the united states transportation command at scott air force base, 20 minutes outside st. louis, i'm going to explain to you how the air mobility command is getting supplies to hathie in about three minutes. gregg: a fox news alert, more bad numbers on the jobs issue, new claims for unemployment jumping more than expected last month. the labor department says new claims for unemployment rose by 11,000 last week, that's up to a seasonally adjusted 444,000. wall street expected an increase of only 3000. later on in the hour, we're joined by former labor secretary elaine chao and what those numbers really mean. martha: we just heard word that bill hemmer is on the ground on port-au-prince and he joins me on the phone now. bill, good morning to you, and tell us what you're seeing there, what you saw on the way there. >> reporter: martha, good morning and welcome to then i center of an incredible human tragedy, i'm about a quarter mile off shore, there's a giant u.s. air force cargo plane sitting on the runway, offloading at the moment, and the belgian air force has flown in two giant planes from overseas and they're just walking downstairs. the u.n. has set up a temporary compound right off the tarmac and the giant pallets that you are mentioning of supplies, they're here, they're sitting here, but it's really merely the beginning of what will be an incredible and massive operation. i heard you mention, steve harrigan, saying the supplies not coming in. that's pretty much true based on hur firsthand experience here. people are filling the streets, they're mostly only getting around on foot in this country. very few cars. there's a great level of poverty as we've noted over the past 48 hours and that humanitarian aid, martha, it takes time to organize. it takes time to get here. it takes time to distribute. it simply doesn't just drop from the sky, and that effort has been slower than many would like. keep in mind, we're not even 48 hours into this tragedy. it won't go as quickly as many would like to see. the u.s. military might be aid thank best. the marines are enroute, the military is in route -- is enroute, the only ones able to go in and keep the peace. as i mentioned, no decisions of that magnitude have been made but when you see the devastation left behind in parts of the capitol city you wonder if eventually how this disaster cures itself. it is hot here, it is only 9:00, 10:00 in the morning, the sun is strong, water is being distribute to keep people alive. haiti needs water and just about everything else, martha. martha: what's your sense of who's in charge? i mean, we saw the president yesterday talking to a reporter saying john where i'm going to sleep tonight, you know, so what is your sense, who is going to coordinate these efforts? you've got all this stuff coming from the different countries, and there's a tremendous need on the ground. any sense of who's running the show? >> reporter: it's a good question. this is just my observation, but what i can tell so march, melissa, is that the united nations is sort of the tip of that humanitarian sphere, with the military right behind them and i would not be surprised to see both of those, the u.n. and u.s. military working in concert to make sure that the aid gets to people as quickly as possible. we were talking yesterday, when we were on the air in new york, martha, remarking about how the people get direction, where they get help. i was quite stunned by the number of people walking in the streets, literally hundreds if not thousands on every street. where they're going, i'm not sure, whether they're checking on relatives or trying to check in on a local business. that is one observation, in a country with very few vehicles, and as i say that, i see a u.n. helicopter flying overhead. the u.n. is here in force, but how they get this aid to the people now is -- this is challenging right now, martha. martha: you just have to believe that a lot of these people are just stunned. i mean, just literally walking around, stunned, wondering what on earth has happened to the world around them. bill, thank you so much. we will be back with you very shortly. bill hemmer is on the ground at port-au-prince, and we will continue our live coverage with bill from there. thank you bill. gregg: getting american aid and helping haiti is obviously an enormous task. tens of thousands of folks without any food or water or shelter or electricity. large areas, buried in rubble. roads, completely erased. peter doocy is at the u.s. transportation command at scott air force base outside st. louis, the logistical center for movement of all troops and resources. the movement of anything, you can think of, whether it's planes, is controlled from that area. >> when the president says we'll get full rescue support for the people in haiti, all the military support goes through the united states transportation command here at scott air force base, 20 minutes outside of st. louis, like you said. i'm here with tony joiner from the air mobility command. when you get the order from the president how long until you can actually try stuff out there? >> as soon as we receive a request from transcom, our control center kicks into action and plans those missions. within about six hours we can have aircraft, airborne, with supplies on board, depending of course on what the cargo is going to be. >> reporter: what kind of stuff are you loading these planes up with? >> to give you an example, last night from travis air force base, we sent out a c-17 with humanitarian cargo, along with a search and rescue team, with canine rescue dogs from l.a., from a civilian team in l.a., they flew out, they should be on the ground in haiti now, participating in the rescue and delivering the supplies. >> reporter: how much busier are you guys now as opposed to normally when you're just coordinating everything else? >> we probably have anywhere from a five to a 25 percent increase in our bus iness, ando foe 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