The Haiti Earthquake: View From The Ground, Part II (VIDEO)

Port-au-Prince following the earthquake.

Here is a second collection of videos from on the ground in Haiti in the aftermath of the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that struck the country Tuesday afternoon. You can see our original collection of post-earthquake footage here.

CBS News provides video of a Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater flyover to assess the damage of the earthquake:

CBS News also has some startling footage of buildings collapsing in Port-au-Prince as the earthquake hits:

This ground tour of Port-au-Prince provided by the Associated Press provides a close look at the collapsed buildings and rubble. Two men say they know someone is trapped inside one collapsed house but don’t have the tools to extract the person:

The AP also provides this eyewitness account from The Salvation Army’s director of disaster services, Bob Poff. Poff describes it as “a devastating experience to watch as those buildings came down, and then people, people came from everywhere, bloody people, carrying bloody people. It was an awful, awful sight.”

Reuters provides video of more scenes of devastation as earthquake victims gather to await aid and medical attention:

This AP video shows the direness of the situation in Haiti, with survivors ill-equipped to handle the recovery and rescue efforts as they await foreign aid:

Raw video from the AP of U.S. aid beginning to arrive in Haiti. Here a military cargo plane filled with supplies is unloaded at Port-Au-Prince airport:

CNN’s Anderson Cooper provides an amazing report of a teenage girl trapped in a collapsed building and the struggle to free her:

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