In Haiti, starving Haitians were tear-gassed Tuesday after crowding a relief center with scarce food aid. Desperate earthquake survivors had rushed to grab bags of dried grains after the center ran low on supplies for a second consecutive day. Brazilian forces with the UN mission to Haiti fired tear gas at the crowd. The UN says it will need enough food to feed some two million people for at least fifteen days. UN Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes said the aid effort is making incremental progress in meeting humanitarian needs.

UN Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes: “People have got some access to water, and we’re increasing the coverage that we are able to give. So that is less critical, although I don’t want to give the impression that it’s at all solved. Another related issue there we need to focus a lot on is sanitation, and of course sanitation and hygiene, because otherwise the risk of disease is there. And by the way, on the disease front, there’s no sign of any epidemics at the moment, although the surveillance of that is continuing very intensively.”