There are mass graves in Haiti…Dead bodies everywhere in Port-Au-Prince, Haitis capital as the whole infrastructure has been smashed.

Medical supplies and doctors are in short supply, said Sanjay Gupta Chief Medical Correspondent of CNN who is in Haiti.

People died who didn’t need to die. People are dying who didn’t need to die and people will die who don’t need to die.

A reflective Anderson cooper of AC360 tried to describe the dire strait Haiti is in his choked voice, hoping help will arrive to the Haitians sooner than despair and gloom overtake them.

Israel announced it has sent off two aircraft carrying a 220-strong medical team and crammed with supplies to quake-devastated Haiti. Israeli team comprises 220 people who will establish a field hospital.

The International Committee of the Red Cross said the quake, the largest to hit the Caribbean country in more than 150 years, had killed between 40,000 and 50,000 people

The State Department said it is a “dire situation” in quake-hit Port-Au-Prince, the capital city of Haiti.

The Secretary of State Hillary Clinton along with the USAID administrator announced today she is on her way to the quake-hit and grief-stricken Haiti, on a fact finding mission and to help put more aid in the pipeline.

The Department of Homeland Security announced today it will allow Haitians living in USA illegally to remain for eighteen months without facing deportation due to existing ground conditions that may put them in harms way.

Up to 3,500 soldiers from the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg will be deployed in Haiti by Sunday.

Another 2,200 Marines from the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit at Camp Lejeune, N.C., may arrive this weekend or on Monday.

A U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, the USS Carl Vinson, with a crew of between 4,000-5,000 sailors on board, is on the way and will arrive in the area by Friday, with 19 helicopters on board. It has three operating rooms, several dozen hospital beds and can produce fresh water.

Two additional ships, the USS Underwood and the USS Normandy, with 400 and 250 personnel, are expected to arrive on Jan 16.

The much-anticipated hospital ship, the USNS Comfort, will not arrive until around Jan. 22. It has 12 operating rooms and 250 hospital beds. The Pentagon says the Comfort is a slow-moving vessel and will need a week to arrive in Haiti.

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