we can help individuals in haiti. we can't fix the haiti government. we can't correct their problems. the government of haiti has to be developed and focused on the long-term effort. >> i don't think you realize it's so hot there you drink a lot of water and people drinking out of plastic bottles and chuck it, it ends up in the sewer system, it clogs everything up, i know that the samaritan's purse and reverend graham had to pay to retrieve those bottles to get them out of there, the drains, so there'd be less sewage stopped up. horrible, never ending cycle. >> one great program is our recycling program. we set up entrepreneurs, they pay and collect a group of businessmen working with them, they go out and gather the plastic and we bring it into a central facility and bundle and bail it with the machines we have and take it to the recycling center. in just 2012, almost $100,000 to the hatian economy by paying the people involved in this program so we helped make their lives better and showed them what it was like to be an entrepreneur. what it was like

involved occupation by haiti, united states in haiti. not everything the united states has done there has been good. one example is that the united states has overseen the implementation of food policy in haiti, that involves the importation of heavily subsidized american grain, especially rice, which is undercut hatian farmers and put a lot of hatian families out of business and worsened poverty there. it's not like we can just sit back and say, oh, this isn't really our problem, this is their problem, they need to fix it because we've been involved all along in good as well as in bad and it's not like we can just choose to disengage when things aren't going so well there. we've been involved, we're still involved. there isn't a choice in the matter the only question, do we want to be a force for good or be something else. >> greta: we traveled in armored cars, was that overkill or-- >> you're precious cargo, it wasn't overkill. >> is it dangerous for americans? >> depends where you are, the government, a lot of instability, a lot of vi

there are two different places and in the popular imagination haiti is haiti and haiti in port-au-prince is hard to explain. this is outside of the quake's own and this is outside of the quake zone so it's unlikely it was a direct result of the earthquake and i can talk more about that later. yes? one fast one. >> jonathan, what do you see as the future of haiti 10 years from now? >> that is fast. i don't know. thank you. [laughter] i don't know. i really don't know. i don't know. you know, i can say this. haiti is a country and port-au-prince is a city and the other cities of the quake zone and other potential quake zones as there has historically been large earthquakes in northern haiti and northwestern haiti routinely hit by devastating floods and tropical storms and hurricanes. and those places are no better prepared for a disaster than they were on the 12th of january. in that sense, if there there is another disaster and there could well be because the bar is set very low, the storm, their other places that would be basically a bump in the road and could be devastating. that remain

habitat has been in haiti for 27 years and as judith macy indicated, i am in haiti 26 times. i'd be there 27 or 28 if i weren't married to the most wonderful man in the world. i would've probably move there. he does accuse me of having a second family they are in the people at the hotel know me by name. it's a frightening thing. i'm very, very deeply about the tahitian people, with their pride, with their courage and i feel like i'm going home when i'm blessed enough to be there. there's nothing i would refer personally to be involved in rather than building back better in haiti assert that the mission of habitat in this work in haiti and around the world. i know so many of you have actually seen in haiti and i know you're equally committed to the success of a building that matter. in case i rambled too much, i want to start with my conclusion because judith asked us to be focusing on the future. it's rare for things that they took him through that i hope it marks get us there is that i absolutely believe the success of the efforts going forward will be conjoined with an foll

haiti is that the doors of the americas. america is fighting its way back to growth, and south america which did not have a crisis and has continued its growth. haiti plays a strategic platform hub. it is an area that is conducive to investment. it is a jumping off point for companies to participate in the big construction of our country and where they can reach out to the rest of the region. we need airports. we need roads. we need electricity generation and hotels. we have fertile soil, and we can easily begin to feed our population again and to export our products. 80 is a climate and is also blessed with geography, white sand beaches, and nature which is still, to a large extent, intact. our country has many things that are protected by nature. courageous. with its ingenuity and desire to work, and i am here today to invite you to drive the blessings of this country, and there is also potential for investment. i am here to ask you to work with us to help regain our sovereignty and to get back to the international money m

they haiti i know, they haiti i want to know and to haiti at the future. different women talk about their experiences in haiti and the diaspora. it's in english, french and creole, so it's crossgenerational. we talk about the earthquake and people who are there tonight to talk about friends and neighbors. they mourn, celebrate, but there's a lot of opportunity for people who don't know much about tv ticket to no haiti through a variety of women writers polices. >> host: is creole very different from french? casco creole is a language of its own and i think of it personally as a place for these different routes came to haiti who is fair. the tidiness came from africa as slaves. the french, spanish, english. all the coelacanth are haiti comes to creole is a beautiful language follows proper comment at softening often a malign sandwich, even within haiti. there is literature produced here and creole, poems and stories and it's an opportunity to celebrate language because if you live here or gripe here is a haitian american, you interact with the these languag

because haiti is haiti and that is port-au-prince it is hard to explain. is outside of the earthquake zone so it is not likely is a direct result. >> what do you see as the future of haiti 10 years from now? >> said is a fast question. [laughter] i don't know. i don't know. i really don't know. i can say haiti as a country and those other cities of the earthquake zone and there have been larger earthquakes previously in northwestern haiti that is routinely hit by devastating floods and hurricanes. those places are no better prepared for disaster then they were jittery 12, 2010. if there is another disaster , a storm that other places is a bump in the road remains high. optimism needs no evidence. as long as people are alive, there is hope. as long as people have an opportunity to make choices. we in developed nations, we are all in with fully invested in the country's past and liberal investment into the future. we can make good decisions to make the country stronger and more resilient and better able to be more productive. we could set back to allow haiti

when something does happen in haiti, it gets magnified to a point where haiti becomes. the river shoes in haiti, just like washington d.c. where we are today. most of the issues are being addressed. at times they see security issues being addressed in the press. sometimes i think it's if. this week have been major issues of the timing of travel warnings, whether it's canada or the u.s. they created major issues for the government and people of haiti, not because of the travel per se, it's the perception that there's a way to language were said in the signal to people that wow, pdas are safe to travel to. but at the end of the day cometh significant bashers have been taken to ensure the security issues are being addressed. like i said earlier, things are not as perfect as a haitian, as ambassador. at the end of the day, beyond the perception, and beyond was being said, encourage you to look at the numbers, statistics. chances are there's a different story being told. the >> grade year. >> good morning. roger williams. i have a question for you. one of the things they don

. >> then, haiti. three years after the earthquake that killed over 300,000 people, we speak to jonathan katz, author of, "the big truck that went by: how the world came to save haiti and left behind a disaster." all of that and more coming up. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman at least 120 people were killed in pakistan thursday in a series of bombing attacks mostly targeting shi'ite muslims and government soldiers. 86 deaths came in a twin bombing in the southern city of quetta, with scores dying in initial blast followed by more deaths when a car bomb struck police and rescuers who arrived at the scene. the band citigroup claimed responsibility for the attack, prompting fears of worsening sectarian violence in pakistan after more than 400 deaths in 2012. thursday's bombings came hours after at least six people were killed in the seventh publicly known u.s. drone strike inside pakistan in less than two weeks. the obama administration has begun 2013

so, haiti averages about 18% disbursement rates. so when you see a figure say $3.8 billion disbursed, it does not mean it has been spent, but it has been given, a check has been put out, but you have a whole infrastructure that you have to put in place. you to hire it. there is a whole hiring process that you have to put in place, and that takes a year, a year and a half for most organization, and they were giving contracts out to organizations that knew nothing of haiti and based on the proposals we will do something along with the reconstruction, but then when what hits them is where are the needs? >> and the checks given often to the ngos instead of the government so you have a parallel state, and the ngo state existing in haiti and some of which may have had great knowledge and understanding of the country and some of which had very little understanding even if they have a great big heart, and given the problems that the government had, is it reasonable to send the money through the ngos instead of sending it through the governm

there's no evidence they're stopping in haiti. i think the are just reassessing their work, which is fine. with regard to the united states, i don't see any real change in keeping haiti a priority. it is a priority of the obama administration. he wasn't reelected. number one. number two, it's very popular in the united states. half of all american families gave money for haiti after the earthquake. every little town in america sent a group to work down there and have seen firsthand the challenges in haiti and have an appreciation for them, and are supportive of our help. there's broad bipartisan support, only congress, for haiti over the years. so while, you know, certainly secretary clinton and some of her aides have been very passionate about haiti, i think that will continue. you'll still be stuck with me by the way for a while. [laughter] >> any other comments or questions? okay, there's one over there and then i will turn it over for concluding remarks. >> thank you very much. and philips again. just a question. a lot of emph

. >>> it's been three years to the day since the massive earthquake devastated parts of haiti. today, former president bill clinton attended a memorial service at a grave in which thousands were laid to rest. while some progress has been made, the suffering continues there on a vast scale. nbc's mark potter is there. >> reporter: three years after the earthquake, the haitian capital is bustling. the downtown rubble is cleaned up. buildings are under repair. the damaged presidential palace has been knocked down, and the famed iron market is again selling goods. still, with 70% unemployment, there are massive problems, and concerns that the promise haiti would be rebuilt better than ever is unfulfilled. jonathan katz writes about haiti's reconstruction. >> there has not been a concerted effort to help build a strong, independent, competent haitian government and civil society that is able to handle its own problems. >> reporter: while more than a million people have moved out of evacuation camps, nearly 300,000 remain. amnesty international calls the housing shortage catastrophic

i have written a book about how the world came to save haiti and left behind. it is the story of what really happened on january 12, 2010, the earthquake, and over the extremely flawed response that followed. a frank answer it has not gone well. there was a feeling after the earthquake that a lot of help was coming. a lot of it was very visible. a military airplanes in the sky, boats in the harbor, trucks appearing in the street carrying all kinds of aide. the phrase that bill clinton used was to build back better, and it is obvious to anybody on the ground in haiti right now that did not happen. there has been barely any building back. what has been built back is certainly not better, and most people are having a harder time than before. all evidence shows that the cholera epidemic was brought to haiti by the united nations workers. after the earthquake, one of the major goals that responder set for themselves, one of the major justifications for the response was to prevent the outbreak of disease. the irony is that after all of this noise, all of this panic a

your organization was in haiti before the earthquake struck. what was it like trying to provide care in the quake's aftermath to where we are today? >> yeah. thank you for having me, thomas. indeed, the doctors without borders, and not an emergency like that was something that we could not have planned for and making preparations for something like this would have been very difficult. however, immediately afterwards, even within 48 hours we had teams on the ground and within the next ten months we had been giving a lot of aid to about 350,000 people, something that in our history is even something enormous and great and the magnitude of the earthquake was felt by the population and organizations like ours was felt, as well in order to respond and in order to get the help that each and every one needs. >> oliver, when you talk about the care and dedication that doctors without borders has delivered there, this is a really startling number. the organization has treated more than 23,000 children for cholera just last year alone. why is it so diffi

. >> three years to the day after the earthquake that devastated haiti, how one american is helping the most serious i didn't injured. >> coming out on two crutches that's our goal. >> and a look at one city's campaigns to get weapons off the streets forever. >> announcer: this is captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> good evening. i'm jim axelrod with a western edition of the broadcast. we begin tonight in the orchards and farm fields of southern california, where the race is on to save crops from a potentially disastrous freeze. temperatures are well below normal in much of the state. 20° below normal in the los angeles basin and parts of san diego county where they are expecting frost on the beaches. the forecast for big sur is 20 degrees colder than boston. even palm springs could see temperatures near freezing. as carter evans reports from the san joaguin valley this could mean ruined crops and higher prices for fruits and vegetables across the country. >>> at this southern california orchard, they couldn't big oranges fast enough. >> everybody in the citr

haiti and airs tonight. and here is a clip. >> there is a special home. >> take a look behind me, this is, these kids have absolutely nothing two years ago. >> and because of the work and contributions of many you, samaritan's purse, volunteers, reverend graham, they now have this magnificent facility here, greta home and academy and they have everything here. >> harris: well, now we have a chance to talk with my friend, greta about her experience and the great work being done to rebuild that country. greta, you're with us by phone tonight. >> i am, and boy, as i looked at that clip there's he nothing more fun than opening that school and so many people helped to make that school is reality for those kids. it's wild. these kids have a chance that nobody else does, 80 kids, they each have a computer, they're loved, they are he' educated, they've got a hurricane proof building, an earthquake proof building and this is -- i hope people watch this at ten o'clock because this is one of those small times when you'

liz: prime minister of haiti. we wish you good luck. it is a tough challenge, but we wish you luck there. >> thank you. what to think the american people for helping us when we needed it the most. we are working very hard to change things in haiti. liz: that's good to hear. extending a hand back during the disaster, but we appreciate it. i will send it back to you in new york. david: thank you. sales of new homes fell last month. overall 2012 was a great year. we saw price gain of about 20%. coming up next, find out where the best real-estate investments will be in 2013? >> plus, why apple might want to look to zoos to boost sales. you don't want to miss this. ♪ [ male announcer ] how do you make 70,000 trades a second... ♪ reach one customer at a time? ♪ or help doctors turn billions of bytes of shared information... ♪ into a fifth anniversary of remission? ♪ whatever your business challenge, dell has the technology and services to help you solve it. ♪ >> new home sales unexpectedly falling last month. new-home sales posted

yet three months after arriving, disaster struck his homeland, haiti. a magnitude 7.0 earthquake, more than 200,000 people died. his hometown was crossed through the epicenter. most of the buildings collapsed. fearing the, he tried contacting family and friends. he tried phone calls, e-mails and text messages. but he couldn't get a response. a week passed before he could confirm his family was safe. >> i need to try to contact my family and my friends in haiti, but that day it was impossible. there were no internet and there was no electricity up. >> reporter: a year later, he himself was caught up in the disaster. he was in the schoolyard when the march 11th quake struck. the campus became an evacuation center. he rolled out a bed alongside the other students. >> this was the big area where we stayed and this is where the place where we slept. >> reporter: he knew his family would be worried. he wanted to let them know he was safe. he tried sending text messages but only one got through. once again, a natural disaster has shut down cell phone networks,

. >> a kid in haiti was telling me the story of how he was bought for ten dollars u.s. and i remember thinking if you calculate the number of orphans in haiti alone is roughly 400,000, like, how do we as individuals help on a problem that just seems so massive? >> unicef specializes in going in and addressing the violence that is happening at the source of the problem say, for example, in the children's homes or in the children's communities, things like that. what these kids are breaking out and running from. and when you think about just even that, like, an 8-year-old can say i'm not letting this happen to me anymore and i'm leaving and will take out -- just take off on their own into the world. i mean, it's unbelievable. so, unicef is the one organization that is there working with the government in all of these countries. they have the governments' ears. they sit down with these world leaders and these world leaders listen to what unicef has to say because unicef comes in, they're not bullying, they're not shoving, they're not pushing their point of view down anybod

what's your presence in haiti right now? >> well, it's important that i'm there, you know, much more than i've ever been because with the president that's in place weather the government, you know, it's, like, i still play part of that. and it's important that i give them 100% support. ♪ >> grammy award-winning artist ne-yo also performed. when, caught up with him, he talked about his growing family and his transition into acting. it's ban few months since i've seen you. what's been going on, man? >> living and building, bubba, making babies and making music and -- >> babies? >> babies. >> a lot of babies? >> i have a daughter, emma, a beautiful daughter. she's 9 months. hi, maddy. she won't wave back. not yet. >> not yet. >> then i have another one on the way. >> another one on the way. wow. you just committing yourself getting no sleep forever. >> i'm still young so, let me get it out the way now. i got my little girl. we just found out that it's a little boy, so i'm done. girl, boy, bang, that's it. >> going to get your

hear, a newly built luxury hotel that supporters of the project say haiti badly needs. owners say they are training hotel workers and hiring lots of local people. x those people were in the streets. today, men and women are going to school, and getting a profession. >> at this construction company, the emphasis is on earthquake resistant buildings, built by haitians, yet not everyone thinks the bush does clinton approach, small amounts of money invested mostly in small businesses, have been the right fix for a country with so much damage not repaired, so many still without homes or jobs. the situation is critical. we need 2 million more homes. giving the money to middlemen here and in the u.s. is not right. more than $7 billion in aid has already been spent, it many haitians still live in squalor. studies say too much money goes on high for and salaries and administration. the clinton-bush funds may have been small and occasionally questionable, but the money usually got to intended targets. this approach might soon be missed in this devastated land. >> buyers in the so

haiti. as you know, a few years ago the haitian people suffered an earthquake and the initial problem was crush injuries. yes, infection and dysentery and water supply and all those things would follow fairly soon, but the initial catastrophe was crush injuries, trauma, and the hospitals were gone. so what did we do? the world responded as best it could. what we did, the naval maritime forces, we sent our balts group down there which was patroling the area, we sent the hospital ship comfort down. so you have the comfort on the east coast, you have the mercy on the west coast. the mercy is parked down in san diego. it just got back from its asian humanitarian assistance from guam, indonesia, vietnam, an amazing number of nations we're partnering with. those hospital ships with 1,000 beds, 12 operating rooms, they produce their own medical oxygen, they have ct scanners and they can do almost anything a hospital on the west coast can do and we can park them offshore as we did in haiti and in ha

de su paÍs. >>> es un honor para mÍ estar en la misma cena de un gran artista, julio, y permitir a haitÍ de presentarse una vez mÁs y hablar de lo que estamos haciendo en haitÍ. >>> captamos imÁgenes en exclusiva del ensayo, donde se los ve bromeando, para recaudar fondos para la fundaciÓn que presidente la esposa del presidente nÁytiano, se quiere recaudar plata para acciones benÉficas y para niÑos he haitÍ. >>> me parece fabuloso que lo naga julio. >>> me encanta, me encanta, sobre todo la causa para una fundaciÓn. >>> buenÍsimo. >>> feliz de estar aquÍ con mi hermao. >>> el pÚblico abarrotÓ el teatro, y segÚn el organizador, la idea del concierto fue de julio iglesias de visitar a haitÍ, luego del terremoto que matÓ a mucha gente, y dejo a damnificados, en la romana, "primer impacto." >>> muy bien por julio iglesias. y otra parte les cuento que el 2012 fue espectacular para los cantantes wisin y yandel, verÁn quÉ piden para el aÑo nuevo y por quÉ fiestas navideÑas comienzan para kany garcÍa, los entrevistaron en nueva york y nos amplÍan. >>> wisin y yandel tiene

que ver en esto...enseguida le contamos. ..tambien a pesar del acuerdo entre republica dominicana y haiti, un ambiente de tensa calma reina en la frontera entre ambos paises..le diremos porque. se espera lluvia en el pronostico de manana... quiere saber a que ha surgido una perturbadora y peligrosa moda de mutilaciÓn entre adolescentes.... la moda, que se ha popularizado gracias a los medios sociales... oswaldo borrarez nos amplia. 22 edgar villamarin , psicólogo trt 141 / out cue : limites un ambiente de tensa calma reina en la frontera de republica dominicana y haiti... tras el acuerdo al que llegaron anoche los gobiernos de ambos paises y varios grupos defensores de los inmigrantes.. la frontera fue bloqueada por miles de haitianos desde el --reporter pkg-as follows -- los haitianos se niegan a regresar a su naciÓn y han decidido bloquear la frontera. en su mayoria son trabajadores indocumentados que en navidad van a celebrar las fiestas y suelen regresar, pero esta vez han encontrado la puerta cerrada. "nosotros queremos ir para alla donde tenemos casa, donde tenemos la familia" la

we have ongoing projects in cambodia, haiti, and south africa and helping out in areas just as the tsunami in south east asia and the earthquake and tsunami in japan and last year, and during hurricane katrina we tributed one mill object pounds of food aid. [ applause ] >> and all of that is coming from the lgbt and friends community. so we work as ambassadors for our community and we help change people's minds and hearts about who we are and what we care about. besides providing humanitarian aid, we try to inspire hope in all of our projects and we have found that hope is really just as important as aid, if not more so. and we have worked with a lot of communities in desperate situations arounded world and we found that providing a little bit of humanitarian aid and a lot of courage and hope it is amazing that people in desperate circumstances can do to improve theirs life. so seven years ago we really have a feeling that in the united states, we really need to increase our hope also. and we decided to do that by creating a global art project, the world, tree of hope. and what you see beh

slowly but surely, haiti is coming up again. and this is the good news i wanted to bring this house. this change of attack is owed to the courage of our population, and to the dissemination of our administration. but we also hold no small member as no small measure, to the act -- [inaudible] of europe. and i would thank you for that. i see in this sign of friendship which has been forged through history, and we cannot be indifferent as we confront the financial crisis which such as you, and also affects us. i remain convinced that a united europe, one which is ever stronger will find the appropriate solutions in order to restore the economy to health. i remain convinced that no recession is forever. and the time that a crisis last will depend on the promise and -- the company measures. from mario draghi, only to name two, you have available to you some of the best brains on the planet which will help you to overcome the crisis and to find remedies. however, my presence here today is an opportunity thank you for your generosity a

greta van susteren traveled to haiti in the aftermath of the quack. she has been very involved with the relief efforts there tomorrow night you will leisure about the work being done to rebuild the country. still very much affected by the disaster as you just saw. on the record special rebuilding haiti with greta van susteren airs tomorrow night at 10:00 p.m. eastern right here on fox news channel. and for a preview, be sure to watch fox report right here tomorrow night. greta will be our guest. a man stabbed multiple times and police say the alleged attacker did it because he thought he saw the victim flashing a gang sign. wait until you hear what caused the confusion and nearly cost the man his life. and in a world of people looking for instant gratification, there is new way for people to keep in touch with their faith. how your phone can help you say a prayer. ♪ the moment i wake up ♪ before i put on my makeup ♪ i say a little prayer for you ♪ aig? we said we were going to turn it around, and we did. woman: we're helping joplin, missouri,

special envoy for haiti. former president bill clinton. rebuilding has been painfully slow and barely half of the five billion dollars pledged by donors. >>> another grim anniversary, ceremonies inill will mark one year since costa concordia accident. the families of the victims are watching the biggest salvage operation. >>> kevin is on the island to mark the one year anniversary of his brother's death. >> it has been a difficult time. >> 33-year-old russell, a waiter on the costaconcordia is one of two victims hose bodies have not been found. >> going back to the island and has given me a little bit of relief because i find myself near to him. >> one year ago sunday, the luxury cruise liner slammed into a reef after its captain took the ship off course. the impact ripped a huge garb in the hull causing the costaconcordia to capsize. more than 400 people are working around the clock to remove the ship that is twice the size of the titanic. the operation to get the cost ta concordia out of the water is expensive, costing $400 million to ro