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Incredibly, survivors are being found in the rubble in Port-au-Prince.
It's a race against time, though, for relief groups.
Up to 200,000 are now feared dead:
Up to 200,000 people are feared dead as a result of the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that has destroyed much of the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, officials in the Caribbean country say.
Lorries piled with corpses have been trying to collect the bodies that have been visible on the streets across Port-au-Prince for burial in mass graves outside the city.
"We have already collected around 50,000 dead bodies," Paul Antoine Bien-Aime, Haiti's interior minister, told the Reuters news agency on Friday.
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"We anticipate there will be between 100,00 and 200,000 dead in total, although we will never know the exact number."
If the casualty figures are accurate, Tuesday's temblor would be one of the 10 deadliest earthquakes ever recorded.
About 40,000 dead have already been buried, while the bodies of another 2,000 victims have been incinerated at one of Port-au-Prince's rubbish dumps.
A boy was found alive after being buried under rubble for three days:
As the president mentioned today, a previous president and an Oval Office squatter have come together on a fund for Haiti:
Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund
More than a few people aren't happy about Bush being on some kind of relief effort, given the fact his administration all but destroyed a major American city--New Orleans--thanks to blatant neglect.
It's a good point although I don't expect Bush to screw it up with Bill Clinton there. Bush is simply being used as a fundraising tool.
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