Flanked by members of the Cabinet at the
“America stands with you,” Obama said to Haitians in a short statement. “You will not be forsaken, you will not be forgotten.”
The first waves of U.S. rescue and relief workers are on the ground in
Tuesday’s 7.0-magnitude quake — the first to hit
in more than two centuries — destroyed thousands of buildings,
including the presidential palace, and knocked out telephone service
and electricity.
U.S. special operations forces have reopened
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