Crew from Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater, Florida, flew over Haiti to assess the damage wrought by Tuesday’s 7.0-magnitude earthquake, which caused massive devastation throughout Port-au-Prince, with some officials estimating the death toll to be more than 100,000.
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