1. Wide shot, helicopter arriving to airport
2. Various shots, search and rescue mission with a British USAR (Urban Search And Rescue) Team at airport unloading equipment
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Rescue team member:
“We are heading to the University of Caraibe which is a university that collapsed with many students inside. So they’ve been stranded for the past almost seventy hours and this morning we were still hearing voices and one guy walked out by himself out of the debri. So we need some help to open the concrete and make some opening to get the other people because we just spoke to a few of them and they are still alive.”
4. Various shots, rescue team with rescue dogs
5. Med shot, rescue team looking at map
6. Various shots, team at university site
7. Various shots, team breaking wood and concrete and entering university
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Jesper Lund, United Nations Disaster Assessment Country team in Haiti (UNDAC) team leader:
“I was out today with the president of Haiti and we discussed the search and rescue phase and how long we want to continue and his words were, “we need to continue as long as the population thinks there is hope.” The first idea was actually close by end of tomorrow but that is definitively going to be extended. As long as the population feels that there is hope we will continue the search and rescue phase.”

14 JANUARY 2010, PORTA-AU-PRINCE

9. Various shots, rescue team
10. Various shots, rescue team freeing survivor
11. Various shots, team with survivor walking
12. Tracking shot, both survivors unite and hug and cry

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A United Nations Disaster and Assessment Coordination (UNDAC) team and OCHA (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) coordination teams arrived on the ground in Port-au-Prince on Friday (15 Jan).

The teams, from the United States, Iceland, Britain, France and China, equipped with jackhammers and sniffer dogs set out to try and reach survivors trapped under the rubble throughout the city.

SOUNDBITE (English) Rescue team member (Unidentifed):
“We are heading to the University at Gonaives which is a university that collapsed with many students inside. So they’ve been stranded for the past almost seventy hours and this morning we were still hearing voices and one guy walked out by himself out of the debri. So we need some help to open the concrete and make some opening to get the other people because we just spoke to a few of them and they are still alive.”

The team broke through the wood and concrete to try and reach the students.

UNDAC team leader Jesper Lund said that when he spoke with President Rene Preval on how long the search and rescue operation should take place in Port-au-Prince, the president replied, “we need to continue as long as the population thinks there is hope.”

On Thursday, a British urban search and rescue team (USAR) pulled two survivors trapped in the rubble.