Death, destruction and desperation are the only things we're seeing in the pictures and footage coming back from Haiti. More than 100,000 people are feared dead by officials from the 7.0 earthquake that shook the country on Tuesday. Now comes the hard part: bringing relief to a place with a ravaged infrastructure.

• WASHINGTON TAKEOUT: Lawmakers in Washington have been deadlocked in negotiations to reconcile the Senate and House versions of the Healthcare bill. Takeaway Washington correspondent Todd Zwillich joins us to talk about the negotiations that have made some Democrats really sour.
• BUSINESS TAKEOUT: Leaders from the big four Wall Street banks were summoned to Capitol Hill yesterday. We speak with New York Times finance reporter Louise Story about these hearings.
• HAITI TAKEOUT: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke yesterday, saying recovery and aid workers are facing "a disaster of yet unknown magnitude" with conservative estimates of a death toll in the high thousands.

After the failed attempt to explode a bomb on an American plane on Christmas Day, how and when President Obama responded became the focus in the avalanche of media coverage that followed. 

With so much destroyed in Tuesday’s earthquake, much will need to be rebuilt. The head of Architecture for Humanity looks at the challenges ahead for Port-au-Prince.

This week’s tech segment looks at innovations that can help Haiti now. We’re not talking about sophisticated computer programs or gadgets, but low-tech, low-cost tools that are easy to use. We talk with two experts to find out they're making a difference in an emergency situation.

Yesterday on the Takeaway, we united by phone Mallery Thurlow, in Michigan, with her boyfriend France Neptune, an aid worker in Haiti. As details of the destruction continue to emerge, we look at ways Haitians are persevering through the tragedy.

The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission kicked off hearings yesterday. Banks CEOs were the first ones to testify, and the debate heated up very quickly.

After four years of service, Spc. Marc Hall hoped he would be out of the Army by February, when his term was supposed to end. But he was told last fall that we will be kept in the military ranks for a yearlong tour in Iraq. That's when he wrote a hip-hop song blasting the Army and its "stop loss" policy and describing himself going on a shooting spree.

Hundreds of thousands of Haitians in the U.S. are still unable to reach their relatives. Phone lines in Haiti are still down and the Internet connection has been unreliable.

The CEOs of the country's major banks came under a grilling yesterday, as the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission kicked off hearings on the causes of last year's economic meltdown. We get reaction from Elizabeth Warren, who heads the group charged with overseeing the U.S. banking bailout, the Congressional Oversight Panel. 

• HAITI TAKEOUT: We reunited Mallery Thurlow, founder and director of Haiti Foundation Against Poverty, in Grand Rapids, Mich., with her boyfriend in Haiti, France Neptune, live on The Takeaway yesterday. We speak with her to see if she's had any contact with him since yesterday, and about a baby close to her who died in the earthquake.
• FINANCE TAKEOUT: President Obama is expected to announce a tax on big banks that will help the government collect up to $120 billion that was lost during the financial crisis. The Takeaway talks with New York Times finance reporter Louise Story about the tax.
• SPORTS TAKEOUT: Supreme Court justices were discussing football today, and the main issue in contention was...football jerseys. Takeaway Sports contributor Ibrahim Abdul-Matin joins us to talk about how this case could have a broader effect on how the NFL does business.

News outlets in Miami are playing a special role in covering the Haiti earthquake, both in Haiti and in South Florida, where a large Haitian community resides.

• ON THE GROUND: We talk with Marc Lacey, Caribbean correspondent for our partner The New York Times, who surveyed Haiti's earthquake wreckage from on high in a small jet. He reports on large buildings that are destroyed and early relief responses.
• CONGRESS: Takeaway Washington Correspondent Todd Zwillich reports on the U.S. government's efforts to help with Haiti's earthquake recovery.
• FAMILY: Yesterday on the Takeaway, we united by phone Mallery Thurlow, founder and director of Haiti Foundation Against Poverty, in Grand Rapids, Mich., with her boyfriend France Neptune, an aid worker in Haiti. We speak to her today to see if she's had further contact with him.

We hear recent reactions from the ground in Haiti. New York Times Carribbean correspondent Marc Lacey arrives in Haiti and describes the destruction he can see from the sky while cargo planes land behind on the tarmac. We also hear from Dixie Bickel, who runs an orphanage outside Port-au-Prince. The orphanage still stands, and she tells us how the children are coping in the aftermath of the quake.