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Chaos in Haiti

Seven days have passed since the earthquake first hit Haiti and relief cannot come quickly enough for those who managed to survive. VIEW PHOTOS of the latest heartbreaking images of desperate Haitians taking to the streets, homeless and desperate, as aid trickles in to the wrecked capital.

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People beg for food and water outside a supermarket in Port-au-Prince, Monday, January 18, 2010. Troops, doctors, and aid workers flowed into Haiti on Monday even while hundreds of thousands of Tuesday's quake victims struggled to find water or food.

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Cuban doctors treat a man with a gunshot wound at New Renaissance hospital in Port-au-Prince on January 18.

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Survivors of Tuesday's earthquake extend their arms as U.S. troops with the 82nd Airborne Division distribute water in Port-au-Prince, Sunday, January 17. The troops gave out over 9,000 bottles of water and 2,000 meals Sunday.

Jae C. Hong / AP Photo
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A police officer aims at a man who was surprised taking goods from a quake-damaged building in downtown Port-au-Prince, Monday, January 18, 2010. Violence and looting broke up in Port-au-Prince as earthquake survivors scavenged for anything they could find in the ruins.

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People fight for goods taken from collapsed stores in Port-au-Prince, Monday, January 18, 2010.

Ariana Cubillos / AP Photo
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A woman walks through fire and rubble in the market area in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Monday. On the streets, people are still dying, pregnant women are giving birth, and the injured are showing up in wheelbarrows and on people's backs at hurriedly erected field hospitals after Tuesday's earthquake.

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Looters fight for goods taken from collapsed buildings in Port-au-Prince. U.N. peacekeepers patrolling the capital said popular anger is rising and warned authorities and aid organizations to increase security to guard against looting after Tuesday's earthquake.

Julie Jacobson / AP Photo
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One-year-old Misa Gureline Bestige reacts as she wakes up from sleeping on the street with her family and other displaced people in Port-au-Prince on Monday, January 18. Survivors live outside for fear of unstable buildings and aftershocks after Tuesday's earthquake.

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Haiti continues to recover after experiencing a 7 magnitude earthquake that destroyed much of the country.

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People take goods from a quake-collapsed store in Port-au-Prince on Monday, January 18, 2010.

Ricardo Arduengo / AP Photo
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In this photo taken Saturday, January 16, 2010 released by the U.S. Navy, people crowd on to a boat during an evacuation in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

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People crowd at a makeshift camp for earthquake survivors set up on a golf course in Port-au-Prince, Tuesday, January 19, 2010.

Jae C. Hong / AP Photo
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Maxi Phalone sings praises to God after her sister was pulled alive from the rubble of a collapsed building in Port-au-Prince, Monday, January 18, 2010. Phalone's sister was one of two earthquake survivors freed from the rubble by rescue workers from Russia, Nicaragua, Peru, and Israel.

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A police officer tries to get people to stop looting businesses destroyed during the massive earthquake January 18, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

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Soldiers from the 82nd Airborne land with Sea Hawk helicopters to the garden of the damaged Presidential Palace in Port-au-Prince January 19, 2010.

Carlos Barria, Reuters / Landov