help, go to foxnews.com. click on the how you can help bar there. that will do it for us. jamie: "fox news alert". there is the live desk. i'm jamie colby for martha maccallum trace: foreign desk is in constant kooct with teams on the ground. to the world head quart is of "fox news channel" on "the live desk". breaking news. brand new pictures will be in boxes on right-hand side of the screen. in top box new video coming out of haiti showing how vast the devastation is. three million people are believed to been impacted by the magnitude 7.0 quake, right now is search-and-rescue begins there is simply no accurate way to estimate what could be a horrific death toll. in the middle box, now u.s. navy ships along the east coast have been put on alert. they have been told to get ready to leave for haiti. today the military could begin using c-130 transport planes to begin flying emergency supplies and food into the devastated land nation. there is also word u.s. troops could be sent in to help keep the security there. in bottom box as tens of thousands are feared trapped, can you imagine, in the moments after the quake, being on the last plane out of haiti? we'll hear from passengers on board that plane. what they were thinking as they flew away. and what they left behind. jamie: but first, the president of haiti saying that the damage is unimagineable. catastrophic. schools and hospitals destroyed. survivors reporting to now be piling bodies in the streets. the united nations sass the capitol city main jail collapsed and reports inmates have escaped there is estimated 402045,000 americans that currently live in haiti and,000 the rescue effort is beginning. let's go to wendell goler from the dominican republic which shares an island with haiti. tell us what is happening on that island? >> reporter: rescue and relief efforts are underway but appears they are still largely unorganized. neighbors helping neighbors, family members, helping other family members. rich and poor alike were affected by the earthquake yesterday. haiti's circumstance as the poorest nation in the western hemisphere, even structures of rich were unprepared for a 7.0-magnitude earthquake. haitian president renee preval, says parliament collapsed. hospitals and schools collapsed. portions of preval's own presidential palace collapsed. you united nations mission collapsed. three million haitians spent the night on their own. they're still very much on own because the organizations that would, that would be expected to coordinate the effort to help them have been so severely damaged by this earthquake. now, haiti requested a u.s. hospital ship and we know that the u.s. is sending military resources, the carrier carl vinson which will function both as a staging area for relief and rescue operations, and as a hospital ship. also a marine expeditionary force headed this way. the united nations says relief flights into the port-au-prince airport will begin today though really unhow much the u.n. mission will be able to coordinate those efforts given casualties and damage to the mission itself. there is one airport runway functional in port-au-prince but the power, airport power is not. the u.s. is sending a military team to provide power capabilities, to coordinate relief flights into port-au-prince. we know the pilot of a light plane carrying our own correspondent steve harrigan and orlando salinas felt it was simply too dangerous to land at the airport in port-au-prince and flew on to santa domingo. jamie. >> even the american red cross, trace, reporting their buildings had coed. trace: it is devastating there. look at new amateur video coming into the newsroom. giving up close view of the moments after the earthquake. you can see many people stand near the damage, not really knowing what to do. several of them climbing on top of rubble looking for any people that might have been trapped. there are also many children standing by. stay with us here at "the live desk". we'll bring you the latest images coming out of haiti. they're streaming into the newsroom constantly as we speak. president obama vowing unwaivering support for earthquake victims in haiti. the president speaking to reporters earlier today saying the u.s. is mobilizing resources to send aid to haiti. mr. obama calling on other nations around the world to do the same. senior white house correspondent major live for us on the north lawn. major, what is the white house saying about this now? >> reporter: trace, if you were going to give a mission statement from the president of the united states, entire vast u.s. bureaucracy, state department, defense department, coast guard, other attendant agencies, u.s. aid, agency for national development the statement would be follow, assume the worst, mobilize the most. the u.s. partners do not no depth damage in haiti, how many people have been killed, how many people have been injured, what is the most crucial need there. all this is assessed by assessment teams landing in haiti this afternoon. the president and state department said the number one priority is account for and deal with the u.s. embassy personnel and 40,000 or so american citizens who live work in haiti. also to mobilize whatever rescue efforts can be mobilized. wendell goler, my colleague in the dominican republic says there are intense efforts to get the terminal in port-au-prince operational. officials say another crucial priority is get the port system working in haiti. ship-borne supplies and relief efforts to take injured possibly off the island and bring supplies in are also going to be crucial. the u.s. simply does not know status of the port system in haiti and they will try to find out. if they're damaged get them open and operational as soon as possible. here is how the president described the for the u.s. bureaucracy earlier today. >> i have directed my administration respond with a swift, coordinated and aggressive effort to save lives. the people of haiti will have the full support of the united states in the urgent effort to rescue those trapped beneath rubble and to deliver the humanitarian relief, the food, the water, and medicine that haitians will need in the coming days. in that effort, our government especially u.s. aid and departments of state and defense are working closely together with our partners in haiti, the region and around the world. >> reporter: the president has received three separate briefing on situation in haiti, two of them yesterday, the situation room here at the white house, operational all through the overnight and early morning hours monitoring information. white house of course keeping an eye on twitter and facebook because that is how many images are coming out of haiti until they get solid on the ground intelligence from u.s. personnel. if this were ordinary day, trace, the president would head to maryland to have an event on economy. last week the wanted to shift his attention to the economy and jobs. well the presidency brings many challenges. the economy taking a back seat now to urgent u.s.-led relief efforts in haiti. trace. trace: because it is no ordinary day. major garrett at the white house. thank you. jamie: an american jetliner was preparing for takeoff. american airlines flight 1908 was bound for miami, managing to get of the ground in port-au-prince just a short time after that massive quake destroyed much of the city. the passengers on board were relieved to make it out in the nick of time but at the same time, they were devastated as they learned about friends and family left behind. >> i was crying, screaming, yelling. asked my passport, i have it, i have it. he was, it was bad. jamie: david lee miller live in new york city with what took place before that last flight took off. david lee, the people must be so concerned, the ones who made it, about when their loved ones might be able to be found, cared or get off the island? >> reporter: that's right, jamie. those final moments were filled with anguish, shock a great deal of confusion. this at haiti's main airport as the last flight took off. the flight was scheduled to take off at 5:30. it did not take off until 6:41. authorities had to inspect the runway, american flight, 1908. there were supposed to be 176 barnes on board, when the plane took off only 9 passengers were in fact on the airplane. that is because a number of them were tormented what to do. once they realized it had been an earthquake that had hit they decided to stay behind to check on family and loved once. those that did land a short time later at miami international airport had harrowing details to tell reporters. one man said it felt like an airplane smashed into the terminal building. now more of the first-hand accounts what happened when the quake struck at the airport. >> the whole outside deteriorated, you know, the whole top, from top to bottom. it was kind ofed up totally. >> right now i'm not really at ease. i don't know what happened to them. i'm trying to find out what happened to them. >> it was a big shake. actually thought it was something that hit the building but it turned out it was an earthquake and only after the event we realized it was an earthquake. >> reporter: jamie, as disturbing as the first-hand accounts are describing the scene at the airport some of the passengers said that the true horror of the quake could best be seen from the air as the plane took off, they were able to see first-hand appeared terminal building in words of one man, literally cracked up. jamie. jamie: communication is so difficult right now with the island if not i am possible in so many areas but are airlines giving information to who are here and people concerned about loved once when flights might resume? >> reporter: american airlines provides the majority of flights in and out of haiti. and we talked with them earlier today and they told us, i'm quoting now, we are completely out of haiti today. we do not know how long. normally that airline has as many as five round trips a day. the airline definitely has damage including damage to the air-traffic control tower which he described, and i'm quoting now, as inoperable. there is on so good news to all this. according to american airlines the runway is usable. it appears at this hour, jamie there is no commercial air transport in and out of haiti but, it looks like if that runway is operable, they will be able to get military transports to bring in aid and possibly take out those who want to leave. jamie. jamie: that is key in these hours. david lee miller. thank you so much. and foxnews.com has you covered on this tragedy. trace over in the war room with diane masado with a closer look. trace: foxnews.com is your 24/7 source exactly what is going on the devastation with haiti. diane, give us idea what we look for on foxnews.com. >> trace, this just in. we got exclusive interview with a man who was on phone with his brother and when his brother said i am going to die. he is not able to get in contact. that is typical what is going on in the region. tone lines are cut. social media has become essential to communication. "fox news" created twit list. monitoring white house feed, charities, haitian news organization and our people out in the. of course we continue to these gripping photos in of what's going on out there. we continue to update the slide show with photos and all this other features can be found on the homepage of foxnews.com. trace: diane, donations? >> go to help page and give you a list of legitimate organizations accepting relief efforts. trace: great source of what is going on down in haiti. diane macedo thank you very much. jamie: there are two people in charge of getting a health care bill on president obama's desk today senate majority leader harry reid and house speaker nancy pelosi spoke privately president. their talk is just a play lewd to the president's marathon meeting with the democratic leadership. up next, deon the new push to make health care reform a reality. plus those devastating images continue to pour in from haiti and countries all over the world are pledging their support. meanwhile their building may have collapsed but united nations peacekeepers, they are on the scene, ready to help. the latest details, three minutes away. why do women like you love activia light? sometimes i have no choice but to eat on the run... and to eat whatever happens to be around. heavy greasy food that's hard on my diet... and my digestive system. so i eat activia light every day. activia light, with bifidus regularis is clinically proven to help regulate your digestive system. mmmm. the new taste is better than ever. and with only 70 calories activia light helps make it easier to watch my weight. it helps me feel good and look good too! ♪ activia! from brink's home security... you can now expect from broadview security - for home and business. call now to get the proven technology of a broadview security system installed for just $99. day or night, broadview is on the job, ready to respond when trouble strikes. i'm sending help right now. (announcer) the same professional monitoring you expect from brink's home security, you can now expect from broadview security - for home and business. broadview security - the next generation of brink's home security. call now. trace: 15 minutes past the hour. breaking now in the top box, united nations more than 100 of its people are missing in the rubble of the collapsed u.n. headquarters building in haiti. including the mission chief. u.n. secretary-general moon, appealing for massive aid to the country, releasing 10 million dollars from its own emergency fund. in the middle box, president obama vowing unwaver support saying post-quake aide should be an international effort. the president telling his administration to respond with swift, coordinated, aggressive effort to save lives. in the bottom box, haiti's president saying the seen is quote unimagineable. the port-au-prince airport isal. rescue crews from all over the world including united states, spain and france, as far as as iceland are beginning to send aid into that airport. jamie: well, today is the day that intense discussions on health care take place at the white house. president obama, you're looking at a live picture too of the white house where this will happen. president obama is talking strategy with senate majority leader harry reid, and speaker of the house, nancy pelosi. they're going through the health care bill section by section. the three are in the middle of pretty tough negative with chairman from key committees in both the house and senate. chief washington correspondent jim angle is live from our d.c. bureau, the word is that the negotiations are really bogged down now over how to combine these two bills, one in the and one in the senate which are vastly different in many respects. what do you predict will happen? >> reporter: that's right, they are very different and that's why you have members from both house and senate there in the white house with the president going over the bill. as you said, section by section. they have even ordered in club sandwiches for lunch. looks like they're going to be there for a while. they have been there 10:0 this morning. they need to work out some kind of bill that can easily pass both house it is they want a bill anytime soon. now charlie rangel is saying there are serious problems getting bill passed at all. many other house members are using the word impass complaining about provisions in the senate bill they have to reconcile with the house bill. let's take a listen. >> if the present senate language continues to be what dominates this discussion, there's going to be a difficult problem getting 218 votes in the house. >> democratic caucus is pretty fired up by the idea it wasn't that easy for us to get 218. we keep hearing them squeal like pigs in the senate they had a tough time getting 60. wasn't particularly picnic for us to get to 218. >> reporter: now easiest and quickest way to get a final vote for the house to make mine changes to the senate bill. the question is how much the house can swallow. clearly members are gagging on parts the senate bill. jamie: jim, i want to ask you, is it relevant or important to note it is happening behind closed doors these meetings? >> reporter: well, yeah. there are a lot of key differences and trying to figure out how to find some middle ground. the house has much tougher language restricting abortion for instance. the amendment from the michigan democrat, bart stupak. this amendment was only one speaker nancy pelosi allowed to get vote on house floor and only did that because she needed the votes. owe brought 40 votes or so to the bill and it only won by five. there is not much leeway there. stupak says he has 10 or 12 lawmakers who would not accept anything weaker while senate would have accepting anything as strong as stupak language. that is a tough one of the the house strongly dislikes tax on so-called cadillac plans those that cost more than 23,000 a year for families which affect many union families. unions are proposing many ways to exempt more members. if you do that you lose revenue and has to be made up somewhere else. that is the same situation, excuse me with medicaid, which, both houses, cut, are expanded rather to about 18 million more people. that means the states would have to cough up some money. senator ben nelson got a sweetheart deal for his state of nebraska. having feds pay all the costs so the state didn't have to come up with any cash. now all the other states want the same deal. but that would cost $26 billion and that means lawmakers would have to find another tax to make up the money. so this is real rubic cube of an issue one little move and entire deal has to be reconstructed. jamie? jamie: private meeting today and we'll hope to more. thanks, jim. good to see you. trace: meantime a red hot senate race in massachusetts. democrat martha coakley, clinging to a lead over republican scott brown you about this battle could have major i amcations no matter where you live. how the race could change the battle for health care reform is coming up. plus, american aid now headed for haiti. the u.s. government coming to the rescue of those who survived that massive either. up next, we'll show you how you can help in this we're also expecting on room 226, get brand new pictures aerial pictures from port-au-prince. our first look from the sky what the damage is like on. we'll bring you those as soon as they come into the newsroom. next jamie: take a look the boxes on the side of your screen. in the top box there are brand new updates on the tragedy in haiti. the organization in charge of sending immediate relief during these situation, american red cross, devastated in the country. this is a picture, in fact taken the red cross of a child outside the rubble. red cross officials are trying to locate of its employees and trying to make sure everyone on the island is okay. in the middle box, the french vatican web site confirming one of the first deaths in this earthquake in haiti. a roman catholic archbishop stationed in port-au-prince. he is 65 years old. he is seen with pope benedict in the recent picture. his body was found in the rubble under the archdiocese. where will all of haiti's people go without homes? two defense officials telling fox military planners are considering housing refugees at guantanamo bay. they're quote, keeping that option open. no final determinations have been made. if they bring people to gitmo. they would likely stay at camp justice where media and other visitors stay when they visit the detention facility. we'll keep updated on that and bring you any new developments from haiti. trace: while it is neck-and-neck in the race for a critical seat in the u.s. senate. brand new poll