Little Miracle: U.S. Photographer's iPhone Shines Light On Birth In Port-au-Prince

A Colorado man, as we've said, consulted an app on his iPhone for medical advice while he was trapped for nearly three days in the rubble of a Port-au-Prince hotel.

Now, USA TODAY photographer Jack Gruber writes with wonder on his Facebook page that he "can't believe the light from his iPhone helped deliver a baby in the totally dark outside triage area of Port-au-Prince General Hospital last night."

(Full disclosure: I used to work at USA TODAY and Jack is a friend of mine. A lot of his work from over the years is online here.)

Jack's not the only journalist to have helped out in Haiti, of course. The AP's Alfred de Montesquiou brought water to residents of a Port-au-Prince nursing home. And as The Washington Post wrote this week, "some of the most visible American television correspondents in Haiti aren't just reporting the story. They're actively participating in it in an unusual way -- performing surgeries, providing medical treatment and even delivering babies on camera."