Current Events Wednesday

Everyday, there is always some news story that affects the world. "American Idol" judge Simon Cowell plans to leave the show after the season. The court wants to weigh indefinite detention among sex offenders. Charlie Sheen gets dropped from "Hanes" commercials. The juiciest story of the year so far is easily the earthquake in Haiti.
Yesterday evening at around 5 p.m., an 7.0 magnitude earthquake hits Port-au-Prince in Haiti. There are over 100,000 deaths and it could reach about 500,000. Three million people could be affected by the earthquake, which is one-third of the population of 9,035,536 people.
The country is in frantic panic as they continue to look for their friends and loved ones. There was a plane that landed during the earthquake which also included some journalists. The country is without significant food and water and several nations including the United States and Britain are planning to send several funds and the proper needs for the suffering developing country. The Red Cross is planning to send food and water to Haiti as soon as possible. The United States is also planning to send more than 2,000 Marine troops their in the next few days.
It is the biggest earthquake since Haiti found their Colonial state since 1770.
Their official languages is French and Creole. The ethnic groups in the country are 95 percent African-American and 5 percent Mulatto and White. The population that is in the below poverty is 80 percent. The Port-au-Prince population is 1,082,800 people.
At first I was wondering why Campbell Brown, Anderson Cooper, Wolf Blitzer and other news organizations keep talking about the story. When I started reading the news today in NBC and then NPR, I then realized how catastrophic of a story this is. This is bigger than Hurricane Katrina or any of the Tsunamis in the past. This is a developing country that is suffering enough and now this earthquake. This country just can't get a break. Now up to 500,000 people could be dead and actually could be more that we are unaware of. I hope that other nations can provide everything that they can or this could be a very long recovery for Haiti because there are also over 40,000 Americans that are also living there.