Return to Transcripts main page   President and Prime Minister
of Haiti Speak About Earthquake Recovery  Aired January 19, 2010
- 15:00:00   ET    CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN ANCHOR: Tonight, one
week after Haiti's earthquake, aid is getting in, but who's
getting it out to the people? We'll be asking Haiti's president
and his prime minister. Both will join us. And also, the U.N.'s
top man on the ground.  Good evening, everyone. I'm Christiane
Amanpour, and welcome to the program.  Tonight, we focus on a
city that the world largely forgot until now, Jacmel, a cultural
center on the coast. The epicenter of the earthquake was midway
between Jacmel and the capital, Port-au-Prince. And until this
week, aid couldn't reach the city because many of the roads were
blocked by rubble, and there simply weren't enough helicopters
and planes to get there.  The Canadian military says that 9 out
of every 10 buildings in Jacmel have been destroyed. And the
U.N. says that more than 10 percent of the population, over
3,000 people