Haiti was rattled by a 5.9 magnitude aftershock just after 6 a.m. Wednesday, a little more than a week after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake ravaged the country.

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Wednesday morning’s earthquake toppled some already shaky buildings and briefly interrupted rescue efforts.

NY1's five-member crew in Haiti ran out of the building where it was staying. Reporter Dean Meminger said he chose to sleep with his pants and shoes on after experiencing a similar rattling late Tuesday night.

The quake was centered about 35 miles southwest of the capital of Port-au-Prince. The aftershock was initially measured at a 6.1 magnitude on the Richter scale, but it was later revised by the U.S. Geological Survey.

It was the latest in a string of nearly 50 aftershocks in the region since last week’s quake.

It is estimated that 200,000 are dead and two-million residents are homeless.

One wake after the initial destructive earthquake, survivors are still being pulled from the rubble.

The New York City Police and Fire Search and Rescue Task Force pulled an five-year-old boy and a 10-year-old girl from a building Tuesday. The children were taken alert to an Israeli tent hospital, where they were reunited with their parents.

"Both in wonderful condition, a little dehydrated, a little hungry. They're both doing really well with no injuries. They were in a small space," said Dr. Dario Gonzalez of the Search and Rescue Task Force. "I think everybody there felt like a parent that day, and it was incredible."

"It was a miracle. We looked in and we saw a little hand come out and it caught our eyes," said Captain Liam Flaherty of the Search and Rescue Task Force. "The brother came out first, he didn't want to leave first, he didn't want to leave our sister. It was very touching. And then we brought him out and then a little later we brought the sister out."

Officials say rescue workers pulled the bodies of three other children from the same building. The deceased are said to be siblings of the two children.

The 80 New Yorker task force members are still conducting searches through the devastated areas.

"We're looking as we speak. We have half our team looking right now," said Rafael Goyenechea of the Search and Rescue Task Force.

"It's pretty hot. That's pretty much our only problem right now, but we have them with some IV fluids," said Scott Mateyaschuk of the Search and Rescue Task Force. "When the phone rings, we're out the door."

So far, the city's team has rescued six people from the rubble.

Other rescue crews yesterday were able to extract a 69-year-old woman from the debris.

The USNS Comfort is now anchored off Port-au-Prince, with 500 medical personnel and beds for up to 1,000 patients. The U.S. military is also sending port-clearing ships with cranes aboard to the Haitian capital to help remove debris from the water that has prevented much larger aid ships from docking and slowed the distribution of supplies.

The Pentagon also sent additional troops to the region, diverting 2,000 Marines who were on their way to the Persian Gulf and Africa.

The Reverend Jesse Jackson, who's in Haiti, said he's frustrated with how slow things are going.

"We have been trying to mobilize doctors and nurses and water and food, very real needs,” said Jackson. “But now that we are on the ground, we just left General Hospital where people there can't get the water. It's inexplicable why you can't get water from the airport to General Hospital, medicine from the airport that is on the ground to the hospital. So this issue of coordination, whoever is in charge of coordination joint coordination, certainly has a role to play and I hope it happens today, and not any later, because lives have been lost."

Americans are being urged to donate whatever they can to the relief effort, and the government is doing its part to make it easy.

The House of Representatives has passed a bill allowing taxpayers to write off donations made to Haiti relief efforts on their 2009 taxes this spring, instead of waiting until next year.

The bill passed on a voice vote with no opposition.

The Senate is expected to vote on the measure soon.