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Haiti quake - Survivors struggle while awaiting aid

The world struggled to rush help to Haiti this morning, fighting bottlenecks to get aid and order to desperate people scrambling to save the trapped and injured on their own, with little help from a government devastated by the earthquake. President Barack Obama announced that "one of the largest relief efforts in our recent history" is moving toward Haiti, with thousands of troops and a broad array of civilian rescue workers flying or sailing in to aid the stricken country — backed by more than $100 million in relief funds. To the Haitians, Obama promised: "You will not be forsaken." And the...

 

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