Updates: Celebrities, Clinton and Bush, Help Raise Donations for Haiti

From Denny: Hope for Haiti telethon where $57 million raised already. HopeForHaitiNow.org still taking donations for the next 90 days. To date, as of this posting, over $385 million has been raised from the generosity of donors worldwide. It's wonderful how well the world has responded to Haiti's plight. Celebrities have donated their time and their passion to raising funds from Hollywood to the political spectrum of past Presidents: www.clintonbushhaitifund.org.

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$355 million in donations raised by various world organizations to help the people of Haiti to rebuild their lives:

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In one telethon on CNN's Larry King Live they raised $8 million.

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Interview with former Presidents Bill Clinton and George Bush at the White House where they had just previously met with President Obama soon after the disaster struck Haiti:



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Hillary Clinton in Haiti, Relief Helicopters Dropping Supplies to Needy

From Denny: The Obama administration held off sending Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Haiti initially so as not to take away from Haiti any of the news cycle. They did not want the media focused upon "the Americans" visiting instead of focused upon what the Haitian people needed. Finally, an Oval Office resident with some decency, sensitivity and class.

The earthquake erupted in Haiti late Tuesday afternoon. Secretary Clinton scheduled her visit for Saturday as by then she would have more details to relate to the Haitian government of what America will be doing in their relief efforts. She also negotiated permission from the Haitian government to allow our military to take temporary control of the airport in order to fully staff and properly facilitate faster flights in and out to which the Prime Minister agreed.

The world beat a path to Haiti's door to help but without anyone to help them land or off load desperately needed medical supplies, food and water in an efficient manner. Secretary Clinton was successful in receiving permission for a few days to be negotiated again as needed.

"America is here to help," she says.


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Rescue efforts turn to the next phase of recovery efforts:


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Take a look at this brief clip to get an idea of the logistics of how difficult it is to get supplies directly to the people:



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Haiti: Before and After Quake Photos

From Denny: Sometimes, it takes a couple of days to get these videos for embedding as the sites are overwhelmed and the news staff is scrambling like crazy to get out the stories and then put them up on their sites. Just trying to get the code to embed what a feat as the web was not cooperating well. Right now people are having a tough time world wide just wrapping their brains around this level of devastation for a country.

This video shows before and after photos to clearly see how things have changed dramatically in the capitol city of Port au Prince. This news story is the best I've found to help us understand the magnitude of what happened in Haiti. These images are from Google Earth.


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