Hurricane Tomas

According to the latest projections from NOAA, the storm should pass in about six hours or so. In the meantime,  storm surges, an overflowing river, and pounding rain are wreaking the kind of havoc that we've been expecting all week.

On Friday, we will find out what happens when a hurricane pounds a country in which 1.3 million people live in tents.   Between the cholera epidemic, the earthquake and the storm, aid workers, government, the Haitian people are struggling to cope with three concurrent humanitarian emergencies.

Tomas is teetering between hurricane, tropical storm and tropical depression status. No matter what the prefix, Haiti is in the direct path of what is shaping up to be a very violent storm.