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By the time her charter plane eases onto the darkened Port-au-Prince landing strip, the control tower is out of commission. Magalie and her CBS crew emerge onto the tarmac, eerily quiet in the early morning hours of January 13, 2010.

Endless lines of people curl around the building, faces bandaged and blood-soaked, bones protruding, bodies askew .

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. . waiting quietly for a medical evacuation.

CBS News Anchor at that time, Katie Couric, is beside her, attempting to broadcast to the world the status of Haiti the morning after a staggering 7.0 earthquake. For the crew, it is a harrowing assignment.

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For Magalie, it is home.

Magalie Laguerre-Wilkinson grew up spending her summers in Haiti with her extended family; speaking French as her first language at home and at school, eating rice and beans and fried pork surrounded by her Haitian clan - all while growing up in New York city.

Let's be clear, she says with a laugh. I am Haitian. It's my DNA.

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