Earthquake in Haiti

Thanks Steven's help on those red sentences!

Like all the military operation which began with reconnaissance mission, this one firmed by the coast guard shows hundreds of people in the streets apparently trying to get away from the threat of collapsing buildings. By this time, a coast guard helicopter has already medevaced four badly injured Americans to Cuba and, by afternoon, C130 will bring in teams to make ground level assessment of the damage and settle up the control towers and satellite communications, the first step in facing the fog of this epic disaster.

Obama's intuitive is we don't have a clear ground assessment right now.

What the situation on the ground is?

What the needs within port au prince are?

How extensive the situation is?

General Douglas Fraser, head of US southern commend, had been ordered to provide, food, water, medical care and shelter as well as restore essential service like electricity to a hard luck country that has just been set back a generation

The airfield has only one run way and the coast guard copter has surveyed the main port and found chaos. Piers have collapsed into the water, cranes have toppled over, shipping containers are in the water, buildings at the wharfs have collapsed.

Helping Haiti will require scores of ships and air crafts and thousands of American service men and women. The aircraft carrier,Vincent, has due to arrive within 48 hours loaded with helicopters, looking exactly like the USSI hours during the earlier political crisis when the Beijing was called off at the last minute.

Amphibious task force with 22 hundred marines on board will get there about two days later and 35 hundred parachuters was on the load at North Carolina available to prevent looting and control crowd. The first of them could be on the ground as early as tomorrow.