Quake survivor trapped for 50 hours

Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) - The head of a humanitarian aid group and a few of his colleagues survived 50 hours beneath the rubble of a hotel, with the help of a few things he keeps in his bag for his two young children.

"We had one Tootsie Pop and we did share that," said Rick Santos, president and CEO of IMA World Health.

He also had a bit of gum.

While the supplies helped, Santos said, "I think we made it because we talked to each other, we helped each other, and we had this hope that we would be rescued at some point."

Two of his colleagues did not survive.

Santos and five colleagues had been walking through the lobby of the Hotel Montana last Tuesday when he saw one of the chandeliers swing. "And before it even made its way down, just everything crashed and collapsed on top of us," he told CNN's "American Morning" on Monday.

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