[Whitfield:] The death toll rises across Haiti from cholera. It has now killed more than 250 people. Health authorities also say they are very worried after five cases of cholera are confirmed in Haiti's capital. The outbreak is centered about an hour north of Port-au-Prince and St. Marc. Our Paula Newton is there. And the death toll, indeed, is climbing, and there are cases that have reached Port-au-Prince Paula.
[Paula Newton, Cnn International Correspondent:] Alarming for many officials here. I am at St. Nicholas Hospital in St. Marc's. And behind me, still scenes of chaos, unfortunately, Fred. I can tell you, outside these gates, people continually come every hour. They are hunched over vomiting. They have diarrhea. Some people already have been sick for two or three days. They come here to get care, and every hour that level of care gets better and better. If we go back to those death cases though, you know, I was hearing touring the hospital with members of the CDC back home, and they were saying to me that the death rate for this outbreak is going down. So that is positive. The problem, Fred, is that to try and contain his kind of epidemic, this kind of an outbreak, is going to be very difficult. The sanitary conditions were already not very high. And in Port-au-Prince, where you have upwards of a million people just living in tents in that city, shoulder to shoulder, it will be a huge challenge. And right now the U.S. government, aid groups and the U.N. are mobilizing to try and help the Haitian government really get a handle on this.
[Whitfield:] So, Paula, yesterday, when I spoke with a representative with the U.N., they talked about how many people there don't even know how to identify cholera. So, what kind of word or instruction or list of symptoms is being conveyed to people there in Haiti so that they can identify their symptoms and be able to get the proper help?
[Newton:] The symptoms are, of course, things that are very common here in Haiti, which is diarrhea and vomiting. The point is people need to judge the severity of that. And sometimes when they come to the gates of this hospital, it's been already too late, as you can see, for those 253 people.
[Whitfield:] All right. Clearly, we're having a signal problem there, but you get the gist of it, the problem there with cholera in Haiti. Our Paula Newton reporting there from St. Marc, which is hit the hardest thus far. Now to Israel, where a shocking window display is calling attention to a worldwide problem human trafficking. This is Tel Aviv, where activists are putting women up for sale to draw attention to the growing problem of human trafficking. This is a window display in a shopping mall where the women on sale actually have price tags. Well, human trafficking is not just a problem in Israel. Right here in this country, in Kansas City this month, a man pleaded guilty in a modern day slavery scheme involving foreign laborers. In Miami, a woman was sentenced in a human smuggling case. And then in Tampa, a man was sentenced for advertising a 14-year-old girl for sex on Craigslist. So, back to that Tel Aviv window now. The display is created by lawyer Ori Keidar. He came up with the idea to help raise awareness, at the very least. He's joining us right now on the phone. So, you are trying to raise awareness. At the same time, you're also hoping to help stop the problem. Why was this the method that you wanted to take?
[Ori Keidar, Task Force On Human Trafficking:] Well, the method we are seeking is to say no to clients, to make clients of prostitution considered criminal offense. And in that way, to lower the demand for prostitution and hopefully lower the supply, as well.
[Whitfield:] So, why here, why Tel Aviv, why Israel? Why do you feel that the problem is so pervasive, that people need to see this kind of shock value in this way of displaying public awareness?
[Keidar:] In Israel, in the last decade, there was a huge surge of trafficked women into Israel in the most horrible terms from the former Soviet Union, mostly. And it came to a point where, actually, the Israeli population, or the public, felt that it was OK to take to abuse women, foreign women that were actually being slaves. They were kidnapped and forced to have sex, and then made drug-addicted, and were actually sex slaves for every matter. And so, the public in Israel felt it was it's becoming OK. And we think we have to shock the public to see that this is not OK. So there's the shop.
[Whitfield:] And so, what's the reaction been like?
[Keidar:] The reactions were amazing. People were, you know, just holding their stomachs and saying this is so strong, this is so you know, we can actually feel it, we feel what it's like, because it's all over in the streets, but people look the other way. But now, you know, when you see it in the middle of a shopping mall, beneath all the beautiful stores, and you see those actresses with bruises and, of course, makeup, people just say, whoa, this is not what we thought.
[Whitfield:] And how do you suppose this display will help in the prosecution of people who are actively trafficking other people?
[Keidar:] The problem we're facing is that the government thinks maybe it won't be so popular to go after the clients. And we're trying to show them that the public are with us, that people see this and say, this must be stopped. So, we want to show Israel, we want to show the Israeli government that the public thinks that it is time to do something that is much more extreme than just, you know, saying this is wrong. We have to do go beyond that point.
[Whitfield:] And you're calling attention particularly to women and children because, apparently, 80 percent of those that are trafficked are women and children?
[Keidar:] Yes. Mostly women in Israel in the sex industry, and the numbers were even in global aspect are high in Israel. So, we think this is a problem that people should be aware of. Of course, local prostitution is also a grave problem, because, you know, once the public is starting to demand sex paid sex, there's no stopping. And this will take a lot of education and a lot of enforcing.
[Whitfield:] Ori Keidar, thanks so much for your time. Appreciate that.
[Keidar:] You're welcome. Good evening.
[Whitfield:] All right. Back to this country now. Parts of the U.S. getting ready for a big storm. We'll check in with Jacqui Jeras in the CNN Severe Weather Center up next.