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Brian Williams

This GeoEye-1 satellite image taken from 423 miles in space at 1037 am EST (1537 GMT) January 16, 2010, shows Port-au-Prince International Airport with multiple aircrafts, supplies and personnel on the ground. World leaders have pledged massive assistance to rebuild Haiti after the earthquake killed as many as 200,000 people, but five days into the crisis aid distribution was still random, chaotic and minimal. REUTERS/GeoEye Satellite Image/Handout (HAITI - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS (Reuters)

Ask the pilot: Touching down in Port-au-Prince

Mary Elizabeth Williams

Left: Haitian children line up to receive food at a food distribution site. Right: A woman defends herself as others try to take a bag she carried out of a damaged building in Port-au-Prince on Thursday.

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Tracy Clark-Flory

Are reports of looting in Haiti racist?

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A injured child receives medical treatment after an earthquake in Port-au-Prince January 13, 2010. The 7.0 magnitude quake rocked Haiti, killing possibly thousands of people as it toppled the presidential palace and hillside shanties alike and leaving the poor Caribbean nation appealing for international help. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz (HAITI tags: - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT IMAGES OF THE DAY) (Reuters)

Tracy Clark-Flory

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Displaced Haitians walk the streets amidst collapsed buildings and rubble in downtown Port Au Prince Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010, in Port au Prince, Haiti. (AP/Julie Jacobson)

Texting to the rescue

President Barack Obama stands with Vice President Joe Biden as he makes a statement about the earthquake in Haiti,Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010, at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (Associated Press)

Obama: Haiti quake "nothing less than devastating"

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People sit at a park a day after the destructive earthquake in downtown Port-au-Prince, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. The 7.0-magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti on Tuesday flattened the president's palace, the cathedral, hospitals, schools, the main prison and whole neighborhoods. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) (Associated Press)

A seismic analyst at the Caltech Seismological Laboratory shows the 7.0 peak from the Haiti earthquake.

A young injured earthquake survivor holds a piece of bread in a makeshift shelter in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti Tuesday. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo) (Associated Press)

Christopher Rogers

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People search for survivors under the rubble of a collapse building the day after an earthquake hit Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. The 7.0-magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti on Tuesday flattened the president's palace, the cathedral, hospitals, schools, the main prison and whole neighborhoods. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo) (AP)

Haiti quake: Live updates

Gabriel Winant, Ethan Strauss

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Mary Elizabeth Williams

Racism, religious discrimination at Wash. Times?

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