Haiti: No Food, No Water, No Help

(CBS)  "Where we are, the cavalry has not arrived," reports CBS News correspondent Jeff Glor from Haiti's beleaguered capital city Friday morning, four days after a massive earthquake brought the nation to its knees.

Glor gave a harrowing account of how, in some neighborhoods, bodies of the estimated 45,000 to 50,000 victims are piled high in the streets. "No one should ever have to see this."

Desperation and lack of any sort of official presence have led Haitians in Port-au-Prince to start converging on makeshift camps - one of them on a soccer field just a couple minutes walk from the airport.

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Glor says he "can count on one hand the number of police vehicles I've seen."

At the airport, tons and tons of aid international aid is finally arriving, but logistical nightmares are making it hard to distribute to the thousands in need, and that is causing increasing resentment and anger among the homeless.

In the center of the capital, the stench from bodies beginning to rot in the sun, combined with the acrid dust still choking the air, is forcing people to cover their faces with anything available.

According to Glor, there is no food, there is no water, and there is no clear indication as to when it might arrive.

Click on the video player at left to watch Glor's report on "The Early Show".

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having been to haiti let me say it is an absolute dump. the poverty in santa domingo is staggering, but when you get to haiti it is jaw-dropping. children beg for breadcrusts. brothers sell their sisters.
the government is totally corrupt. the primary religion is santeria (voodoo). Certainly we should be humanitarian. But no matter how much money you give to this country, it won't make a difference.

[DawnBroderick40]

The government of Haiti is largely to blame for the disaster that looms in front of and ahead of them. Government greed and corruption go a long way towards helping keep people impoverished and suffering. While the president lounged in a lavish palace, the people of Haiti struggled to survive. So, when a disaster of this magnitude strikes, people are helpless. They should be angry at their government, as should we. I realize the people of Haiti are cut off from the world, injured and frightened, but until their country receives the services it needs to become a successful nation, every time something like this happens, they will find themselves in a nightmare.

Help will get there when it gets there and they should be grateful that countries all over the world are coming to their aid. Greed and corruption created this nightmare.