Things are still quite bad, the Haitians referred to live on the island. “Pirates” sounds a bit over the top. There is looting and reports of shooting but it’s the inhabitants looting from each other.
The problem is this will get worse by the day. Haven’t heard about firing on copters though, FWIW.
Just came across this, a history of the Dan Rather fake news on George Bush, and this site’s debunking of it. What a glorious time that was!
http://www.tosettherecordstraight.com/docs/CH13.pdf
HAM operators are required to give their call sign every 10 minutes. Did anyone hear a call sign?