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Aid fails to reach the needy
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International governments might be pouring in relief supplies and medical teams, but they're facing huge logistical hurdles because of the sheer scale of destruction. Aid is still not reaching hundreds of thousands of victims.
At the Port-au-Prince airport, now under the control of the US military, planes are arriving every 20 minutes.
But in streets strewn with rubble, garbage and rotting bodies, Haitians say they've received nothing.
Resident, said, "What we are going through is so horrible. We are left with nothing. No one has come to see us yet. We see flights with relief goods landing all the time, but we have got no aid at all."
At a decimated supermarket, scores of people climb over the rubble trying to reach food underneath.
Outside the Cite Soleil slum, people crowd around a burst water pipe jostling for a drink or to fill up buckets.
Some survivors, angry over the delay in aid relief, have built roadblocks from corpses.
Lieutenant General Ken Keen, US South Region Dep. Commander, said, "My message to the people of Haiti is that we need a safe and secure environment to be the most effective we can to deliver these humanitarian relief supplies, so I plead to them that they work to that end and it will be in the interests of everybody."
Police are scarce on the streets there are just a few Brazilian U.N. peacekeepers on patrol.
The UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti, which lost at least 36 personnel in the quake, has been trying to provide basic co-ordination from an office near the airport.
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