Rain started falling in Port-au-Prince at 11 p.m. Eastern Time on Sunday. The rain is hard at times and it is the first of the rainy season. NGO’s, government agencies, and the UN had been worried about the rain since most earthquake survivors are living in tents.
President Bill Clinton has promised 100 new pick up trucks for Haiti. The new vehicles will help distribute the aid to neighborhoods in Port-au-Prince and outside the city.
Clinton was visiting Port-au-Prince on Friday. He admitted to “bottlenecks” in the distribution of aid since the earthquake.
You have to be in Haiti to see for yourself that no where in Port-au-Prince are troops present or actively helping survivors.
As the American Airlines plane landed at the airport on Monday morning I could see the hundreds of tents that the US military had set up along the landing strip. Pallets of food and water wrapped in clear plastic stood next to the runway as Haitian airport workers sat by the cargo area watching the commotion taking place on their own land.
The death toll in Haiti will continue to grow as more bodies are recovered from under the rubble in the days and weeks to come.