News; Secretary of State Hillary Clinton cut short her participationPublished: Thursday 14 January, 2010
At the airport, a stream of cargo planes arrived, carrying international
rescue teams and supplies from the United States, Brazil, Iceland and other countries. An American military plane unloaded a team of Air Force soldiers from Florida, while audio headphone a Coast Guard plane loaded a group of U.S. teens on an evacuation flight.Vadim Stefanyuk was traveling with the religious group, which cut short its work in Haiti because of the quake. He said he and a few others were traveling in a truck through the city when the quake hit.Stefanuk said "There were quite a lot of bodies, a lot of screaming, a lot of just panic. People just confused about what to do. A lot of the roads got blocked off. Walls would fall and we couldn't drive. We had to leave the trucks and we took the luggage with us."In Washington, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton cut short her participation pioneer in a meeting with her Asian counterparts to focus on the U.S. response to the quake in Haiti. |

