Live Blog from the Anchor Desk 01/21/10
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Tonight on 360°, gunfire and chaos in Haiti over five bags of rice. Plus, a look at the what's happening to Haiti's orphans. And, a Supreme Court ruling that could have a major impact on November's mid-term elections.
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@ Gergen: The #1 issue for the President should be JOBS! He is too scattered. Now he is nationalizing the student loan program. Come on Mr. President, let's get focused!
David Gergen,
I'm just incredibly depressed about the changes coming down the pike. I'm afraid health care is a lost cause. I have good health insurance at the moment, but so many don't.
Thanks!
Hurricane seasone is on its way whats the plan for that .
Those were really hard pictures of the kids who are now
orphans.I hope Johnny and the other kids get the help
they need. God bless the nurse. I don't know how she
holds it together.
watching children cry and scream is difficult to experience
I don't understand why there isn't a reporter confronting officials asking why supplies aren't leaving the airport. Where is the breakdown and why.
The polices there should relax because they do not know who's who. There are people all over the world trying to help them. Put down the guns!
Good evening Anderson, 360 team David Gergen and fellow bloggers
God help these people. They are suffering badly. All most of us can do is send in our donations and hope things get better as soon as possible...
Please give us an update about the Montana Hotel and the missing students and faculty.
On the first day CNN was in Haiti Preval told Sanjay that he was "working to rescue the people."
It is more than a week later, what has he done?
@ michael armstrong sr. TX.
"Has the cordinater in Haiti been fired yet ."
Good question!
And WHO is that?
his is very sad. Children are so innocent, nor should understand what is happening!
Hi Anderson I just want to comment that the US Navy has
a Navy base in Ceiba Puerto Rico, that its not in use
and has a big Hospital fully equiped and in the same
base ther is a big air port that can be used for the
Haiti pepole, can you find out about this Navy Base
that its not used by no one.Thank You
Mr. copper, has anyone suggested that major Cruise Ships be used to house, and feed the people of Haiti? My husband and I go on cruise every year, and I just thought about how many people could be housed and feed. With all of the Money being donated, maybe some could be used to pay for the Cruise Ships to stay there until other care is avalible. Maybe Carnival, Royal Carribean, have ships that are not being used right now!! just a thought. Each ship could house aprox 3000 people.
Why shoot someone over rice and then leave them there to suffer and die? Isnt there enough death there right now?
What is the MATTER with people?! Here's an idea- send the Haitian police to the airport so they can help distribute needed supplies, instead of shooting the very people who aren't getting them, and are therefore taking care of themselves- simply trying to to survive.
Anderson: can you please show/tell us what the US marines/military are doing in Haiti?
Why can't Dominican Republic just take Haiti? Was there a few months back. DR is a lovely country. The people there say they let the Haitians stay and work when they cross the border anyway.
Haiti is in deplorable shape. 🙁
Maybe they need to start blowing the roads with T.N.T. and clear the roads .
That's unbeliever I have seen all shootings are not appropriate to steal rice bags..... That is not good thing to shot innocent people.
Karl and Anderson,
I agree!
Hi Anderson!
I am wondering, is there any orphan organization that would take "little Johnny" that you talked about today? I am haitian and would love to take him but I live in a one bedroom apartment in uptown Mahnattan. This is so unfortunate, I feel terrible for this little boy.
Hello everybody - Good to join your conversation here tonight after too long a time away. Haven't Anderson, Sanjay and the rest of the CNN team done a great service for us all with their coverage from Haiti?
Will look forward to hearing your views tonight about the President and his troubles two nights after the Massachusetts election. It appears that his signature issue - universal health care coverage - is on life supports, and other initiatives may be as well. Should he start heading toward the middle? Become more of a populist on behalf of liberal causes? Let health care go in order to focus on jobs? Important decisions ahead - his State of the Union next Wednesday will signal where he is headed. Hope you can be with us that night!
Good evening Anderson & 360Crew in Haiti, 360 Team, Megan, Martina, & Bloggers!
Hope that things are getting better in Haiti.
How is that little 5yr old boy & his uncle we heard about last night?
I am a nurse in the U.S I have donated to Haiti and I wish I could go there to help right now... However, I have heart ache about our country rightnow also... We have children dying from preventable illnesses and diseases because they have no doctors or insurance...we need this experience to carry over to our country also...does it always take a disaster to wake our government up.....we need to pass health care reform for our country....because we dont see our needs on the news every night does not mean it does not exist...please wake up ...
I've been thinking all day about how I had hip surgery last month in a spiffy new hospital and how horrible it is in Haiti. The lack of medical supplies is a crime. They're right there at the airport.
I'm also frustrated because I've donated money and yet still these poor people suffer. So many Americans have given so much and yet the aid sits at the airport, going nowhere
you know, with 4500 or so escaped from the crumbled prisons, there WILL be those who grab stuff from others for profit - it does not sound like this is a case like that, but how does anyone really know?
if the rice shows up in someone's family meal, it is much different than if it shows up in the markets being sold to those who were supposed to receive it in the first place
To make matters worse, it looks like these were unarmed boys.
How people and the police can see a person fallen, hurt, needing help and pass as if nothing had happened??
How sad that these people who are called police while killing people over food are the people who survived the earthquake.
This report fom Carl Penhall is disturbing.
I still can't come to grips with the term looting, if it is food and water (if it is not for the black market).
Again, excellent reporting on ALL of the different aspects of what is going on is Haiti...the good, the bad and the ugly
Anderson, my thoughts and prayers to you, and I hope you have a safe return soon.
Sincerely,
Lisa L
Sydney, Australia
Anderson,
Looking forward to checking out the Haitian Releif Telethon tomorrow night. Keep up the good work! You continue to make us all proud.
Next time lets just make it due to brighter circumstances : )
That last footage is heartbreaking! @Anderson when are the aftershocks going to end? looks like the pennisula is going to break off it they don't stop.
That was a senseless killing.Is there any law and order?
Just another poor man's dead body laying in the street. You see that all over the world, including here in metro-areas of the United States.
Good evening, everyone. Karl Penhaul's story about the shooting in is disturbing. I gasped at the image of the dying man.
Good evening. I'm new to this blog. Tuning in to the best coverage on Haiti.
Shooting people over food is overreacting. The spilled rice is useless, so what did it get the cops?
Has the cordinater in Haiti been fired yet .
Good evening AC360, shooting the suspects looks very much like the CIA trained tonton macute there in Haiti some years ago, very troubling.
The cars go by and nobody does anything?
This is the end of the world or I'm lost!?
Hello Mr. Cooper and Dr. Gupta.
Hello everyone.
I am boiling over the "rice and gunfire".
Hello everyone. Hope everyone is well. I have cabin fever in California.
Good evening 360 bloggers and fb and twitter friends!
Wishing the desperate people of Haiti had the millions the wall street executives got as a holiday bonus. When has life ever been balanced or fair?
Good evening Anderson, Dr. Gupta, Gary Tuchman, Ivan & ALL the AC360 team members.
Good evening fellow bloggers and friends.
Much more news from Haiti today!! Some of it actually good.
Good evening everyone – Anderson, David (Indiana), friends and bloggers!
Helloooo Anderson, Megan, Jessica Y, Ed Henry, David Gergen Martina Ilstad, Emily and my friends Twitter/Facebook Bloggers!!!!!
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Good Evening Everyone!
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