Back in the 1980s, she and Preval were bread-makers in a large bakery in downtown Port Au Prince.
And it will be ferrying supplies back and forth from Port Au Prince.
On Saturday, the U.N. finally got a road link between Gonaives back to Port Au Prince, and Ike's knocked that out as well.
In the aftermath of the earthquake, the typical Haitian family living in Port au Prince spends 40% of its income on cooking charcoal.
The January 2010 earthquake that devastated the capital, Port au Prince, and surrounding communities did not result in an immediate wave of mass migration to the United States, as some had feared.
"We are concerned that vulnerable families still living in temporary camps won't treat this storm as a serious threat after Tropical Storm Emily didn't hit Port-au-Prince as predicted, " warned World Vision's Meg Sattler in Port-au-Prince.
After spreading along rivers in late 2010 the number of cases exploded in the coastal town of Saint Marc - before moving on, with deadly speed, into the slums of the capital Port au Prince.
Marcelin Rose Danie and her family lived in the center of Port-au-Prince when the earthquake struck.
Born in Port-au-Prince, they moved to the United States shortly after meeting 34 years ago.
The only way in is by medical convoy, which leaves downtown Port-au-Prince at 4:00.
Le Coz is just back from an assignment to build a media operations center in Port-au-Prince.
But much of the growing international relief effort has been focused on Port-au-Prince until now.
Juan Gabriel Valdes described the situation in the city where we found him, Port-au-Prince.
He's among thousands of people standing in line in the dreary midmorning heat of Port-au-Prince.
Most of the bodies that once lay in the streets of Port-au-Prince have been moved.
Back in Port-au-Prince, Gary and I resumed our morning sessions on his broken patio.
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Port-au-Prince might be cut off from the Artibonite Valley, the country's most fertile rice-producing region.
The headquarters of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Port-au-Prince collapsed, a U.N. official told CNN.
Jean Bernard, an eyewitness in Port-au-Prince, told CNN the city had no electricity Tuesday evening.
Competition for political influence and jobs has raised tensions in the capital, Port-au-Prince, and other towns.
In Port-au-Prince, there is no water and almost no electricity for those who cannot afford generators.
You need only look at the symbols spray-painted on almost 400, 000 buildings across Port-au-Prince by Haitian engineers.
Les Cayes, a city of about 400, 000 people, is about 140 miles (225 kilometers) southwest of Port-au-Prince.
This is hugely important because Hurricane Ike knocked out the last road connecting Gonaives to the capital, Port-au-Prince.
Cuban field hospitals in Port-au-Prince were already treating hundreds of injured, according to Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez.
That is partly because the earthquake struck the capital, Port-au-Prince, knocking out such institutions as the country possessed.
Street gangs hold sway in many of the poorest, most densely populated parts of the capital city, Port-au-Prince.
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