Wyclef Jean Haitian star drags bodies from wreckage
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The magnitude 7.0 earthquake – and several very strong aftershocks – struck only 10 miles from
The over 2 million people in
He has long been active in promoting Haiti's development, but that focus shifted markedly to disaster relief in the wake of the 7.0 magnitude earthquake.
"We spent the day picking up dead bodies, all day that's what we did. There's so much bodies in the streets that the morgues are filled up, the cemeteries are filled up," he told Fox News.
"The count is not 100,000 there's at least, has to be four to five hundred thousand people that is about to die."
Jean raised money through his Yele Haiti charity since 2005.
"We have to raise a million dollars a day. In four or five days, this whole country is going to be in chaos. We are calling for a state of emergency," he said.
"We are calling for a state of emergency please President (Barack) Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton... we have to do something for this country."
President Obama has said that the
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