Louise Steinman

The images are relentless; piles of bodies; the haggard and the weary; the bereaved and the homeless. What can we do what can we do? I send donations to Partners in Health, watch the news and worry. Scenes from Dante's Inferno. Rick Loomis, intrepid L.A. Times photographer is on the scene. Rick has guts-- he's been in all the tough places-- Afghanistan, Iraq. In combat. in disasters. But I can imagine what witnessing these horrors costs him.

President Obama promises support for the Haitian people. You can hear the emotion in his voice.

The sadness overlays the winter beauty of Los Angeles.