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Loss and hope amid the chaos

Newsday's Ridgely Ochs and J. Conrad Williams Jr. report from Haiti

From Long Island to Haiti

We follow 13 medical workers, most of them LI Haitian-Americans, as they help in Haiti.

Photos: LIers and patients

From injured men in wheelbarrows to malnourished girls in tents.

Videos: In Haiti and on LI

Haitian-American doctors from LI try to save lives and limbs (some material is graphic).

In their own words

The emotional reactions of LI doctors and nurses to what they saw in Haiti.

Haiti in brief

A brief history of Haiti and snapshot of the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere.