Campbell Brown breaks down…

The LA Times’ Matea Gold writes about Campbell Brown breaking down after news broke that an 11 year old girl who had been rescued, had died…

The story began Thursday, when CNN correspondent Ivan Watson reported on the Herculean efforts to save an 11-year-old girl pinned under the rubble in Port-au-Prince. (See his report above.) His camera captured the anguished look in her eyes as she lay under piles of concrete, moaning as rescuers tried to free her from a large piece of metal pinning her leg down. Ultimately, she was freed after rescuers managed to find a generator to power an electric saw and cut her out.

Tonight, Watson told Campbell Brown the sad coda to the story: that while the girl made it to a first aid station, doctors there didn”t have the necessary equipment to treat her wounds. Her family was unable to get her to a hospital in time and she died.

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