News; plagued by frequent hurricanes

Speaking on NBC's Today show, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said
U.S. teams have had logistical challenges to overcome."We have the airport open,
thanks to mm headphones the U.S.
military," she said. "We have our civilian search-and-rescue teams on the
ground. We are doing all we can."Amid the devastation and loss of life in Haiti,
there have been a precious few moments of joy - U.S. rescue workers pulled a
security guard out of the rubble of the collapsed U.N. building in
Port-au-Prince. But scores of U.N. personnel remain unaccounted for.Shaken and
frail, one woman was asked her reaction after family members rescued her from a
collapsed house."I started crying. Yeah, I started crying," she said.Haiti is
the Western hemisphere's poorest nation, long-plagued by frequent hurricanes,
political instability and chronic underdevelopment.