At 6:24 this morning, our time, Brian said they were just outside the US embassy in Port-au-Prince. Food lines. Lots of building damage. No violence. Thousands of people filled the streets when the sun came up, he said. About one in two buildings there had been leveled.
Brian said they were setting up a clinic in an orphanage. Half of the group would be staying there; the rest would go to another clinic a little further north. Most of the kids at this particular orphanage had survived so far. Brian said the kids and the workers looked pretty good. There was a pretty long line of folks outside. They heard yesterday that the relief group was coming. Not a lot of bad injuries that he could see.
He also said that there was a small tent city set up there. On the drive earlier this morning they passed miles of broken buildings, tent cities, and people sitting, walking, doing nothing. It seems more impoverished than Nairobi [where we had been in August]. Brian also mentioned that they had passed the port and that it was pretty "beat up."
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