He said that an American aircraft carrier, the Carl Vinson, arrived off Haiti early Friday with 19 helicopters aboard, and that it would serve as a staging area for relief flights, purified water and other supplies. Exceptions to the new rule would be granted only to humanitarian aid planes, based on arrival times and on the availability of space at the airport, a notice from the agency said. The Obama administration, cautioning that it would take time for all the aid to reach those in need, granted Haitians living in the United States protection from deportation for 18 months and permission to work. “As I told the president, we realize that he needs more help and his country needs more help  much more,” Mr. Obama said. We’re out here to show that we care, that we’re suffering along with them.” 
 
 The United Nations said that 9,000 people had been buried in mass graves  and collecting bodies had become one of the few ways to earn money. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti  As tension rose here in the battered Haitian capital, relief workers scrambled on Friday to deliver desperately needed food, water and medical care, recover survivors still trapped in the rubble and collect thousands of decaying bodies from the streets.
– Earthquake survivors desperate for food broke into a UN warehouse in Port-au-Prince today, a sign of the growing frustration at delays in relief. UN officials say they've recovered nearly all of their stocks, however, and pledged to hand out 6,000 tons of food shortly. But with necessities such as water, medical supplies, and heavy moving equipment slow to arrive, anger and despair are rising among the tens of thousands of survivors in the capital. "We're all aware that the situation is getting more tense as the poorest people who need so much are waiting for deliveries," a Brazilian peacekeeper tells the Guardian. "They are slowly getting more angry," a UN official tell the New York Times. In other developments: Cuba gave the US permission to use its airspace for relief flights. About 4,000 inmates who escaped from the main prison remain at large. About 7,000 bodies have been buried so far in a mass grave. Two big aftershocks rattled the capital again today.