Magalie's Moment in Haiti

By: Overtime Staff
Topics: Overtime Original

For this week's "60 Minutes" broadcast, correspondent Byron Pitts went to Haiti to see how far the country had come in the ten months since the earthquake. Also traveling with him was producer Magalie Laguerre-Wilkinson, a Haitian-American who speaks fluent Creole.

Watch Byron Pitts' full report.

In this video, you'll meet Magalie and listen in as Magalie and Byron recall their first trip to Haiti in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, and the moment in a dark parking lot that they'll never forget.

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by Egainer November 23, 2010 12:45 PM EST: Compassion is not a word bound for one country. In order for our leaders to acknowledge the plight of those at home and abroad we need to define giving and healing in a larger perspective. We also need to stop self serving and serve others. I certainly hope the person above puts his money where his mouth is to indicate how he has helped both the natives locally and the international community in which we all are linked to.

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by freshway-2009 November 14, 2010 8:13 PM EST

while i think the situation in haiti is horrible. Why are we as US citizens spending all our money and time focusing on the situation there, when the reservations here at home people live in a lot of the same conditions. Where is their aid. Who is helping them build new homes? It really bothers me that a former president cares more about another country than he does of his own country and people!

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by jrouwhorst November 14, 2010 10:14 PM EST: If you feel like your energy is better spent helping people in this country, then go ahead and do something here.

One of these centuries, I hope that we'll collectively figure out that nationalism is as obscene and toxic as racism.


by compassion2 November 15, 2010 12:45 PM EST: You have obviously never been to Haiti, and if you have, not since the earthquake. I volunteer regularly here in the states in the poorest of areas, and help homeless as well. Our country's very least live like kings compared to the people of Haiti. In our country, you can go to a shelter for a roof or a meal. In Haiti, they fight for survival like animals. I am certain you are not heartless but just don't know what it is actually like there. I encourage you to go help there or be the aid you feel our country needs here.

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