We're going to take a closer look now at gang warfare in Haiti, which has rocked the struggling

nation for years, displacing over 700,000 Haitians.

The United Nations Security Council met today to discuss the violence and whether to upgrade

a police mission deployed earlier this year to a peacekeeping operation as the chaos and street warfare has

reached a new and terrible level. Despite that multinational security mission that deployed in June

to try and restore some order, large parts of the Capitol remain under gang control and violence is

endemic. Special correspondent Marsha Biggs and videographer Eric O'Connor recently traveled to Haiti

and have this look at the depth of the crisis.

Downtown Port-au-Prince, deserted after years of gang warfare.

85% of the city is held by various armed groups, constantly battling for control.

They terrorize contested neighborhoods with a scorched earth practice of kidnapping, rape, and murder.

No one in the city remains untouched.

I had no choice but to join them.

In order to stay alive, to save the life of my child,

and also avenge my mother and father.

This 41-year-old widowed mother asked us to protect her identity.

She says in 2020 she was living on a front line between two gang territories

when bandits attacked her home and murdered her father, her mother, and her husband in front of her.

She fled with her teenage son and members of the Grand Ravine Gang gave her a choice.

They asked those who want to stand and fight to fight. I chose to join

with my child. How do you survive? When a vehicle with goods is passing by, we hijack it,

or we kidnap you. We demand a ransom. You pay us and we release you. But if you refuse,

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