I wandered through the Port-au-Prince cemetery today with a Haitian colleague looking for his family crypt. His heart was full of trepidation. What would he find? Had someone tossed his ancestor’s bodies and stuffed fresh ones in there instead. That’s what has happened to so many crypts. We stepped over bones and skulls spread through …
My heart breaks. Every time I head out of the Plaza Hotel in a CNN car, my heart breaks. In the massive tent cities, in the villages, on the big island in the deep blue Caribbean. My heart breaks. A woman grasped my arm today and would not let go. She held her sick child …
I sat at work last night writing the main Haiti earthquake story for CNN Wires and my mind raced back to 2001, when I was in the Indian state of Gujarat, covering the massive quake that also struck on a January day. Families, separated. Mothers searching for their babies. Husbands clawing throwing rubble in the …
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