Haiti earthquake

Photos from the wreckage and rescue efforts Thursday after the devastating earthquake Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

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Thu., Jan. 14, 2010

In this photo released by the United Nations, buildings affected by an earthquake lay in ruins in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti Tuesday.

Logan Abassi Un
Cindy Terasme cries after seeing the feet of her dead 14-year-old brother, Jean Gaelle Dersmorne, at the rubble of the collapsed St. Gerard School in the aftermath of the earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010.

Gerald Herbert Associated Press
Cindy Terasme screams after seeing the feet of her dead 14-year-old brother Jean Gaelle Dersmorne in the rubble of the collapsed St. Gerard School in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti Tuesday.

Gerald Herbert Associated Press
A man empties out the refrigerator of his collapsed home in Port-au-Prince Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. A powerful earthquake hit Haiti on Tuesday leaving thousands dead and many displaced.

Julie Jacobson Associated Press
People walk by the Cathedral that collapsed during an earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010.

Gregory Bull Associated Press
The MINUSTAH United Nations headquarters lie in ruins after a major earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010, in this photo released by the United Nations.

Logan Abassi Un
Earthquake survivors' tents are seen between buildings in Port au Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010, in this photo released by the United Nations.

Logan Abassi Un
A Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010 aerial photo provided by the American Red Cross shows survivors gathered around bodies in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince after Tuesday's devastating earthquake.
Earthquake survivors walk amid collapsed buildings and rubble in downtown Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010.

Julie Jacobson Associated Press
In this photo released by the United Nations, an earthquake survivor receives treatment at a medical clinic set up at a UN logistics base in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010.

Logan Abassi Un
Men carry an empty coffin after failing to find a body after Tuesday's earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. The coffin was later sold to another woman whose daughter rested close by.

Carl Juste The Miami Herald
Gladys Louis Jeune is pulled alive from the rubble of her home in Port-au-Prince nearly 43 hours after Tuesday's earthquake, where she was greeted by a cheering crowd Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010.

Patrick Farrell The Miami Herald
A man points to a body buried under the rubble at the Digicel office that collapsed during the earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010.

Carl Juste The Miami Herald
A family camps outside with an injured relative in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. Afraid to spend the night in their homes, most residents of the city are camping on the open after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti on Tuesday.

Ariana Cubillos Associated Press
People carry a coffin next to the bodies of earthquake victims at the morgue in Port-au-Prince, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti on Tuesday.

Ramon Espinosa Associated Press
The bodies of earthquake victims lie on a collapsed building in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti on Tuesday.

Francois Mori Associated Press
A man trapped in the rubble of a collapsed government building waits to be rescued in downtown Port-au-Prince, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010.

Ariana Cubillos Associated Press
People displaced by Tuesday's earthquake gather in an open area in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010.

Ramon Espinosa Associated Press
A man sits on a coffin intended for his mother, who had yet to be found in the rubble of her home in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010.

Julie Jacobson Associated Press
Men work to free students and faculty trapped inside the collapsed St. Gerard Technical School in the aftermath of Tuesday's earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010.

Gerald Herbert Associated Press
A broken stained glass image of Jesus hangs in the ceiling of the cathedral that collapsed during an earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010.

Gregory Bull Associated Press
A Chinese rescue worker climbs a ladder Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010, at the destroyed MINUSTAH United Nations headquarters damaged by an earthquake Tuesday in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Ricardo Arduengo Associated Press
A cross stands intact in front of a church that collapsed during Tuesday's earthquake at the Canape Vert neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010.

Ramon Espinosa Associated Press
A woman carrying her belongings passes several dead bodies waiting to be taken to the morgue after the earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010.

Carl Juste The Miami Herald