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An aerial view of the devastation in Port de Paix after four storms in one month have devastated the island and killed more than 800 people. The amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge has been diverted from the scheduled Continuing Promise 2008 humanitarian assistance deployment in the western Caribbean to conduct hurricane relief operations in Haiti, Sept. 8, 2008.

HURRICANES' PATH

An aerial view of the devastation in Port de Paix after four storms in one month have devastated the island and killed more than 800 people. The amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge has been diverted from the scheduled Continuing Promise 2008 humanitarian assistance deployment in the western Caribbean to conduct hurricane relief operations in Haiti, Sept. 8, 2008.

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