My usual four news channels have been cut down to BBC News and BBC News is no longer concentrating on Haiti. However the aid effort is slowly picking up pace and reaching more people.
Today (tuesday) relief workers have delivered food and water to 125,000 people within the capital. They are also operating several field hospitals where the seriously injured can receive medical attention. The main seaport remains non-operational but getting it back in working order remains the number 1 priority. The airport is still just one airport and the delivery of aid there has been slowed slightly by the need to bring in food and water for the relief workers in order to make sure that they do not die before they are able to re-open the sea-port.
The Americans have also experimented with parachuting supplies into aid points. If the security situation remains peaceful they will be able to expand this practice to include forward operating bases/aid points throughout the country.
Local radio has begun broadcasting messages warning Haitians not to attempt to take to the seas in order to escape. This is good advice because the USA will be able to reach survivors long before the survivors reach the USA.
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