Orphans from quake-ravaged Haiti arrive in U.S.
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- Dozens of Haitian children rescued from an orphanage after last week's earthquake arrived Tuesday in Pennsylvania to be placed with foster families until adoptions are finalized.
Gov. Edward Rendell, who traveled to Haiti to accompany the orphans back to his state, said the 53 children from the Bresma Orphanage in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince were flown to Florida on an Air Force C-17 transport plane. They were then transferred to another plane to fly to Pittsburgh, he said at a news conference at the airport.
Another child is to arrive in Pittsburgh late Tuesday or Wednesday, Rendell said. Ali McMutrie, a Pittsburgh-area woman who ran the orphanage with her sister, Jamie, said her sister will be accompanying the 54th orphan.
"The children are incredible. They're doing so great. I was more upset at the airplane ride than any of them," said McMutrie, who also was at the briefing.
Earthquakes
Adoption
Most of the children's adoption cases were at the end of the bureaucratic process before the 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck.
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Gov. Edward Rendell, who traveled to Haiti to accompany the orphans back to his state, said the 53 children from the Bresma Orphanage in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince were flown to Florida on an Air Force C-17 transport plane. They were then transferred to another plane to fly to Pittsburgh, he said at a news conference at the airport.
Another child is to arrive in Pittsburgh late Tuesday or Wednesday, Rendell said. Ali McMutrie, a Pittsburgh-area woman who ran the orphanage with her sister, Jamie, said her sister will be accompanying the 54th orphan.
"The children are incredible. They're doing so great. I was more upset at the airplane ride than any of them," said McMutrie, who also was at the briefing.
Earthquakes
Adoption
Most of the children's adoption cases were at the end of the bureaucratic process before the 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck.
More at CNN.com
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