Hur came came right through immediately after the earthquake. so you had all of that ground shook up and then a massive amount of rainfall causing tremendous erosion. this is a rural area we are talking about. half of the country of haiti doesn t have enough food to eat to begin with. when people are living on a knife s edge like this there s some little margin for error. christy an island is never an ideal place to try to get goods in. you re absolutely right in saying all of this. anybody who is watching this it is tremendously challenging. we are working as quickly as we can. what can people do who want to help? christy, can you answer that? did you hear me? if people want to help, what can people do? it is so easy to learn more and to donate you can go to mercy.org. it is so easy to learn more. people can go to mercycorps.org
To learn more about our response. this is not the kind of situation where we can send in goods. the airports are crowded, so really donations are best at this point in time. okay. christy dellafield, thank you so much. i thank you for the heads up on all of this. that will do it for me, everyone, on this addition of alix whit records. i will see you at noon eastern. my friend yasmin vossoughian continues the coverage. welcome, everybody. wow, it is quite a saturday. good afternoon. i m yasmin vossoughian. we are following several major breaking news stories at this hour. henri, a hurricane and headed for landfall in less than 24 hours, set to become the first hurricane-strength storm to hit the region directly in decades. we have new information on the ground at the kabul airport. nbc news reporting a threat to the airport today came from isis.