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12:30pm Haiti Update: As Aid Arrives, Foreigners and Injured are Evacuated

As foreign disaster relief workers arrive on the scene in Haiti, many foreigners and some of the injured are being evacuated. The State Department says at least 164 U.S. citizens have been able to leave. Coast Guard C-130s have airlifted 42 non-essential officials and employee family members to safety along with 72 private citizens. Another 50 private citizens caught a ride out on a supply plane from Iceland that had just unloaded its cargo. Meanwhile, France says it's evacuated 91 injured French nationals on emptied supply planes. The president of Haiti's Senate is among the survivors being treated at a hospital in the neighboring Dominican Republic. He was rescued from the collapsed Parliament building. The State Department says more than 350 Americans are awaiting flights out. There were about 45,000 Americans living in Haiti at the time of the earthquake. So far, one American is known to be among the dead. (Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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