Good morning everyone. I am still trying to catch up with the scope of everything that happened yesterday. Some of it devastating, some quite shocking and yet even more somewhat funny.

Apparently Good Morning America opened with an awful comment today, calling the debacle at NBC right now something along the lines of "earth-shaking". The insensitivity of the comment, given the timing, just speaks to some bad writing.

The last quote I saw from a report about the 7.0 earthquake in Haiti is that, "most of Port-au-Prince is destroyed." President Obama called the initial reports, "truly heart-wrenching." In the lead picture on that CNN story, you can see that the presidential palace crumbled. At one point Anderson Cooper reported that there was no working control tower in the country and that his plane almost crashed because of it.

Just after 5 p.m. Tuesday, the 7.0 earthquake struck about 10 miles southwest of the capitol city, initially sparking fears of an even more devastating tsunami. Thankfully that didn't happen, but the quake, which was felt 200 miles away in Cuba, inflicted catastrophic damage on the region.

One quote from the CNN story (don't read if you can't handle a graphic image): "One woman, I could only see her head and the rest of her body was trapped under a block wall," said Jonathan de la Durantaye, who drove through Port-au-Prince after the quake. "I think she was dead. She had blood coming out of her eyes and nose and ears."

Haiti, the poorest country in the western hemisphere, is home to about nine million people, making it "roughly the size of Maryland." It is devastated on some level by hurricanes seemingly annually.

Many of the organizations here are advertising the "Text "HAITI" to 90999" to donate $10 toward the relief effort. Here is the Red Cross page. Senator Chris Dodd tweeted that if you have family in Haiti, you can call the State Dept: 1-888-407-4747. The Washington Post has a liveblog.

This was the strongest earthquake to hit the Caribbean in 200 years. While this might sound naive, the most frustrating thing when seeing something like this happen is Haiti's complete inability to be prepared. The country can't afford it, so millions die. Yet, just last week, California gets hit by a 6.0 and it's barely a blip on the radar screen.

Anyway, says some prayers and talk to anyone you know that might need help finding someone down there. I know there is a large U.N. peacekeeping group down there and often many from the U.S. already doing relief work.

I'll have more on the other two stories, and probably this one too, a little later.