US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will travel to Haiti on Saturday to consult with government officials as a major international rescue effort intensifies after this week's devastating earthquake. Clinton said she would meet with Haitian President Rene Preval and other US, Haitian and United Nations officials on the ground in the capital, as well as some civilian aid organizations.
The USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier arrived off Haiti's coast Friday to begin humanitarian assistance, part of a larger military mobilization to rush supplies into Haiti.
The Nimitz-class nuclear-powered ship carried 19 helicopters that had begun ferrying food, water and other supplies into and around the capital Port-au-Prince, where the vast majority of destruction took place. More at Earth Times
Friday, January 15, 2010
Hillary Heads to Haiti Jan. 16
Hillary Clinton heads to Haiti tomorrow with US AID Administrator Rajiv Shah.
