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there's a lot more aid on the ground here at the airport in tacloban. these are actually boxes of medical supplies, looks like they're from germany. these are boxes, pallets full of boxes from usaid from the united states. these are plastic tarps, sheets that can be cut up by families, thousands of them. they can be used for shelter, which is critically important here for the people who have really no shelter from the elements whatsoever. the question is how quickly can this aid be distributed out to the communities that need it most. can it be distributed safely, efficiently, and quickly. that's the big holdup right now. the phillipine government on the local government here, even the federal government is very disorganized. there aren't the capabilities. they don't have trucks, there's a shortage of fuel. so how quickly this aid can get out there right now, that's the biggest challenge. >> all week long we've seen so many remarkable things and met so many extraordinary people. a lot of times on a story like this we'll put it together in kind of an ess

she joins us live in tacloban. what is the situation on tuesday compared to what you have seen, say, yesterday. >> well, anderson, yesterday, i was thinking that the relief effort was picking up pace. the u.s. marines arrived and more helicopters and planes arriving. but this morning there is very little arriving here because of the bad weather. we had torrential rain here which is just horrific for those who don't have homes. people are sleeping out in the open and many people still don't have food and water. so it is a very desperate situation. there is a bottleneck here at the airport which often does happen in these situations. you can get the supplies to the airport. but to get it out to those who need it are incredibly difficult. many of the people are saying tell the world we need food and water and tell the local authorities they must move the bodies. it's a difficult situation for them. the mayor says they are digging mass graves to try and bury those who lost their lives. 244 people are known to have died

tacloban was one of the fastest growing cities in the country. when disaster strikes the need is to save lives, children, especially girls, are at risk after disasters in developing nations. unicef's director is joining us from new york. why are children so at risk after disasters like this? >> well, children are vulnerable. we estimate that tacloban affected over 5 million children. they are vulnerable because of disease. and one of the first things that unicef worked on with the local water authorities as well as ngos and with the support of u.s. and filipino military is getting in the water system in tacloban, getting it back up and running. we can say today that we have restored water to approximately 270,000 people in tacloban. about 80% of the population, that will avoid disease outbreaks. diseases that children are vulnerable too. we need to look at nutrition, and questions and concerns about violence and separation of children from their families, at. >> good to hear that headway is being made. an alarming report from plan international w

you just left tacloban. you were down where i was several days ago where the bodies were collected and there is a large number of bodies that weren't collected but gathered in a mass area. what did you see? >> certainly in the last few days, the government came in. there is a change in the street and a lack of communication. what we saw, one of the key things where the bodies being gathered. the smell is in the street when is you drive through. think put them together in a makeshift morgue and there is a complex and heart breaking complex of trying to identify who are in those body bags and that's the beginning of trying to get through the process. >> let's take a look. >> this is where it ends for so many without ceremony or even their name spoken softly. the corpses that have littered tacloban, so much of the city leaves, come to rest here. until parts of the horror of how they must have died. but they leave many questions, too, among the overpowering smell of looming disease. it's a cold, but necessary pr

she joins us now on the ground in tacloban. what is the situation now this tuesday, compared to what you have seen, say, yesterday? >> reporter: well, anderson, yesterday, i was actually thinking that the relief effort was picking up pace. the u.s. marines arrived. there were more helicopters, more planes arriving. but this morning there is very little as you know arriving here at the airport, because of that bad weather. we have had some torrential rain here, overnight, early morning hours of torrential rain, which is just horrific for those who don't have homes. people are sleeping out in the open. many people still do not have food and water. so it is a very desperate situation. there is a bottleneck here at the airport, which does happen in these situations. you can get supplies to the airport its. but to get it to people, incredibly difficult. and many of the residents are saying please tell the world we need food and water. and please tell the medical authorities they must move the bodies. it is a very difficult situation

also here in tacloban. joining us here to help us understand some of the medical needs is kate oliver. your organization is made up from folks that are veterans and first responders. what makes you guys uniquely able to serve. >> we are volunteers and we got here last monday. we come together and work on the assessment side. we provide medical care as well as helping some of the remaining structures putting tarps up over the remaining structures. >> you are an army medic. you have been working with the field hospital. >> it's been busy because as of now between tacloban and down in tanwon, there's no go-to medical care here now. there's not a formal facility. there was one set up by the australians, but at the airport we have people coming in droves. >> you are having to treat them in tents. we are not talking about a structured setting. >> it's whatever framework remains from the storms. we are setting up triage. >> what injuries are you seeing? >> a lot of puncture wounds and infections from wound receive

this shattered city of tacloban, the monsoon season is coming. tens, hundreds of thousands of people, their homes destroyed or at very least their roofs ripped off completely and these people are going to be exposed in the weeks and months to come to the elements. this is a city at the center of the horrible trama, anderson, that we're looking at right now for the last week and we'll just hope that these fillipinos can carry on with the will to rebuild after this -- the worst disaster they have seen in generations. >> and nick, in terms of what you saw, you just got out of tacloban. >> ivan is right. improvement in the presence of the government. came out of an airport amazingly transformed since we were there. every hour, every half hour you see an aircraft land. i came out on an enormous c-117. >> bigger than the c-130s and they were hopeful -- >> they should go out two a day. pour massive forklifts and trucks and in their place sit 300, 400 fillipinos trying to get out. you get an idea how bad life is behind and still at the airport in huge nu

. >> in tacloban city, they're calling him the ghost. many people here thought that the city's mayor, alfred romaldez, had died in the typhoon. >> i was in that building, which is by the beach. and the waves were hitting the roof of that building. >> he's taking me to the scene of his miraculous escape. this was the family resort in the hardest-hit part of the city, right on the edge of the sea. he takes me through the shattered shell. the mayor and 14 others were here when haiyan struck. the surge devastated the building, six-in-thick concrete walls were smashed like tissue paper, he says. >> then suddenly boom the door bang, the other one door blasted open. water gushed in. >> reporter: as the waters rose, seven took their chances outside while the mayor and the rest climbed into the ceiling space. >> here the water was going up. so we had to go all the way in there where we climbed all the way up here. >> reporter: here. >> no. we had to move this over here. >> how high did the water go? >> almost to the ceiling here. >> reporter: the

day after day, thousands come to tacloban airport. the lack of food and water, the decaying bodies lying on the street. but with 800,000 people displaced, many are without options. while others continue to search for loved ones lost in the storm surge. >> only one missing is my eldest daughter. i hope she's alive. >> this woman cries for her mother who's still missing. >> translator: i'm still here in tacloban, she says. i'm still alive. >> makeshift shelters for those left behind have sprung up all over the area. people sleeping wherever they can, desperate to find a dry, safe spot. people around here just have no place else to go. a lot of them who may have evacuated before the storm are now back in what used to be their homes. there's a makeshift shack. somebody's constructed over there. they tried to collect all the things they could salvage. but it's not much. >> in many places, not much is left but rubble. and the sound of pets waiting foerns who may never return. this makeshift coffin has a piece of rock with the name of a baby

tacloban is a city of some 220,000 people. we don't yet, piers, really have an accurate count of how many people have lost their lives and how many people are wounded and in need of immediate assistance. accurate numbers, we just don't have them. and that gives you a sense, we're now into the fourth day since this storm hit. and it gives you a sense of how tough the communications have been for the people of the philippines and the u.s. marines are out atta tacloban, helping get relief efforts and get things back up and running. that was one of the things, piers, there were no lights at the airport, to help with the type of situations that was needed. in the next six to seven hours it will definitely cause a crimp in some of the plans. we'll continue to follow it in the next several days. >> anderson, we know the american military has sent aid, the chinese sending aid, lots of countries helping now. but how restrictive is it at the moment to get the aid that is needed, given the current horrible conditions that are continuing?

tacloban's airport is open but badly damaged. no power means the planes can't land at night and aid workers are struggling to get supplies in. that didn't stop hundreds of survivors who rushed to the ruined airport looking for food. others lined up, hoping to be evacuated. by afternoon, the lines stretched three miles long. bodies pulled from the rubble were lined up neatly. the mortuaries are already overflowing. the situation grew more desperate by the hour. this mother in the nearby town of cebu went over her dead child. her home is gone. "we want to go back home," she said, "but we can't. and i have nowhere to bury my child." many residents covered their faces to mask the smell of the dead while they searched for relatives in some of the hardest-hit areas. this filipino man traveled for three days to tacloban, searching for his wife and child. he found them alive... but their home had been swept away. >> pelley: and seth doane is joining us from the heart of tacloban. seth, what's it like to be a resident of tacloban today? >

wayne hay is at tacloban airport. we do to cebu. craig leeson reports on how international aid is not arriving fast enough for some. >> they lumbered into the cebu air force base delivering precious cargo from the nightmare that is one of philippine's worst natural disasters. those that couldn't walk were carried - the sick, the old and those that wanted to the escape the disaster. >> bodies are on the road. nobody is picking them up. >> the injured and sick were taken to a military hospital. for many here, the horror of losing their families outweighed the pain of injuries. this woman was struck by her roof as it collapsed in the storm. she managed to crawl out with her daughters, as it passed. they were a lucky one. >> the doctors are working around the clock, overwhelmed by the volume of injured, but every now and then a ray of hope. >> today we have a spine fracture, body fracture. mostly trauma, injury. we have protect nant women coming in -- pregnant women. we delivered two babies. >> after discouraging the human cargo, the c1

i want to go to nick paton walsh in tacloban. nick, this is a report out that i just saw saying they have a number out for death toll in tacloban, a big number. explain the confusion over the numbers of dead, please. >> well, they are saying 4,000 died in tacloban alone according to officials here. we sent our producer up. they seen the white board and asked officials where they got the number. they aren't entirely sure how they came to it and try to find a woman who wrote the number on the board and weren't able to do that. the idea the death toll is adjusted upwards and makes sense. in the neighboring town there were more. it is probably going to go higher than 2,000. it gives you the idea of the contusion accounting for the dead. they may have numbers coming up but aren't sure how rock solid they are and got to them and shows you the chaos of viewing people's lives. imagine trying to get food and water and the simple mechanics of getting dead bodies and burying them is beyond the task of the government here. anderson. >> i've

in tacloban, the misery is beyond meanin meaning. this is your home? the first, she say, our house was one of the first to come down. she sought shelter in this bus with her husband and six children. she survived. they were swept away. >> and has anyone come to help you? >> i really want to see them, she says, even if it's just their bodies. she has found the body of her husband. and shows us the bodies of three of her children. she's covered the kids as best she can. now she searches for her three other children. she doesn't believe they survived the storm. >> where will you sleep tonight? >> here in the street. anywhere. i don't know where i go. >> in tacloban, there isn't anyplace to go. juanita martinez is living in a makeshift shelter. his daughter and dwife are covered with sacks nearby. juanita cooks some rice and noodles for his neighbors. one of the men tells us he wants to call his mother in manila. he's desperate to tell her that he survived but his wife and two other children are dead. we dial her number on our satellite phone. they're gone

that's it for us here in taclob tacloban. we'll be back at 10:00 eastern team for another edition of "ac 360." >>> anderson, thank you very much indeed. i've been watching the last hour, incredibly powerful reporting there. you've obviously covered some of the worst natural disasters from haiti to others. how does this compare to being where you are on the ground in

coming to you live from manila in the philippines with the latest on the disaster here and the relief tacloban and cebu, and lots of places, all in between. we have correspondents around the region to broadcast. there is breaking news tonight. the death toll has been revised upward. the official philippine death toll is 2,300 people, more than that. but there is some confusion on the ground because according to the u.n. on their website, they have the death toll at nearly 4,500. again, as we've been saying, there are no accurate numbers we can give you with confidence. there are so many bodies that have not been collected. the effort to collect bodies have increased, firefighters doing the grim and grizzly but necessary work of collecting those bodies. there is a lot to tell you about. increasing humanitarian assistance has been arriving in tacloban and elsewhere but often it's piling up at airports. the problem now really seems to be distributing it, getting it in trucks to get the aid out, to get it out safely, to get it out efficiently and to get it out to those who need it most. the needs

the hardest hit hit area tacloban. andrew stephens is reporting from there since before the storm hit. he has a look now at a problem hurting people's chances of getting the help they need. decimated roads. >> reporter: just to give you an idea what's happening here, we're three days after the storm now. we are trying to get to the airport, which is 14 kilometers away. our driver was soed to come today, but he hasn't turned up. we can only assume that he's got his own family issues to deal with. so beak, we're going to try and walk and get a lift on the way. still look down there. i mean, it's just devastation, isn't it? so just not far from the hotel, we have a -- it's a first aid clinic basically. they've been treating about 244 people, minor injuries. this is all now charity from local ngos. >> we're not going to the airport, but are you guys going there? >> we need to go to the airport. >> i think we can ask. >> i think we could be lucky. >> this pickup is going to the airport. >> okay. so off to the airport 14 kil

tim wilcox there in tacloban. to give us a picture of just how outerly grim it remains across much philippines. jojo is the director news director in manila and joins me on the line now. it does seem as if the government is coming in for a lot of criticism, as well. would you share that criticism? yes, the main criticism during an ongoing disaster is aid is coming in too slow. it's not reaching the people who need it most, particularly those hit in the hardest hit areas. time to ment -- it's as hings as quickly possible to the affected areas. >> they told the bbc, it's essentially, because local government has been sent into utter shambles and they've never had to deal with an aid project of this magnitude. fair comment? >> yes. under the law, local disasters are usually handled the local government. the national government has to declare a state of national clamity just to get the authority to bring in all the aid. >> if i go back to the weekend, when the scale of this damage was gradually being revealed, i think

i'm at tacloban city airport. the first plane has actually just landed just a couple of minutes ago. you can see behind me, there are a couple of hundred, 200, 300 people here. they have been -- they have either been sleeping here all night, camping here all night, or have come through during the dark hours. as you can see, this place is just a shell of what it was. we came through this airport about 12 hours ahead of the storm. it is unrecognizable. the ceiling's gone, all the walls are blown out. there's masonry walls down and right around the car park outside here, i don't know if you can see it, but it's just debris really everywhere. this is actually, though, now a functioning airport. the marines who arrived for the first time yesterday are going to be in here actually turning this into a 24-hour operation. for that you need runway lights, you also need radar. we're going to get both of those in the very, very near future. meanwhile, people are also using this as a place to get relief supplies, the stuff tha

we have been trying to go to tacloban. we have a team there. we have freight coming and we have a hospital - inflatable - surgical hospital arriving here tonight in the airport that we wish to move in the next - the next 24 hours to tacloban. >> others from doctors without borders said that the situation in eastern samma is bleak, the public hospital has been destroyed. how do you deal with a situation like that? >> as i said, we are taking in a full system - a full hospital system that can do everything. we have to get it there to be working. as i said, it's arriving tonight. there are other - there's certain - i know once the main hospital there is no longer functional. there's a certain amount going on, not a great deal. there's a bit of support from the military self-defence force, but we want to get our hospital up and running. >> and what are the people there in need of. what sorts of - what sort of injuries and what sort of diseases are needed to be treated. >> we will - personally we'll concentrate on surgery and maternity, obstetrics t

we are hearing the same thing .bout tacloban massive destruction. but the international committee however, weross -- are focusing our relief efforts on the island of -- as we are coordinating our work with our colleagues from the philippine red cross and the international federation of the red cross and red crescent societies. we are working in samra because we have been operational there for years working in areas also affected by armed conflict, including to our mandate. we have two teams on the ground they're working around and they have seen massive destruction .ainly on the south coast these are the most affected areas. thenwent further up and back overnight. destruction there as well. >> i am afraid we will have to leave it there, but many thanks for joining us here on the program. you have been watching "gmt" here on bbc world news. >> make sense of international news at bbc.com/news. >> funding of this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation, newman's own foundation, giving all profits to charity and pursuing the common good

he's done incredible reporting from the city of tacloban. he was in a hotel and helped rescue a family. here's his dramatic account. >> this is what the of center of a typhoon looks like, winds slamming into a city. a white haze of screaming noise smashing windows, tearing metal, water and flying debris. just minutes after we had he finished our line of shots telling headquarters we were moving to safer ground, the camera man brad shot this in the place we just left. >> okay, guys. i think we can wrap it up. >> as the destruction there continued, a floor below terrified residents huddled together finding protection against the flying spray and mind numbing noise, some praying for their safety. we're sheltering in the corridor. it's a relatively secure area i think where we are is a very substantial hotel. we are away from windows. but all around us, you hear the sounds of windows breaking and large objects crashing to the floor. and under foot, it is now just eight deluge. if you look behind me, i don't know if you can see it, the staircase

in tacloban this evening. seth, a lot of relief aid is heading your way. what are you seeing so far? >> we are seeing it trick into some neighborhood, scott, but it still depends on which street you're walking down. i asked jessica advicula at the water line whether people were receiving enough and she said if you were lucky enough to find some it was probably only enough to last for a day or two. the need was just so great. >> pelley: very far to go. seth, thank you very much. sandy hook parents hope to start a national conversation about gun safety and mental health care. there's new video of a gunman loose in an american shopping mall. and batkid turns san francisco into gotham city when the "cbs evening news" continues. city when the "cb evenin . something that runs office and has a keyboard. but i wanted a tablet for me, for stuff like twitter and xbox, so my downtime can be more like uptime. that's why i got a windows 2 in 1 which does both -- works as a laptop and a tablet. so i can manage my crazy life

because my family is tacloban. >> international relief is on the way. the united states has directed the carrier, the uss "george washington" to head to the philippines and provide support. u.s. marines are on the ground. as bad weather closes in, the survivors wonder if they'll arrive in time. >>> meanwhile aid agencies are struggling to reach some of the philippines remote areas and continuing bad weather is not helping. wayne hay has more from one of the worst-affected city, tacloban. >> as each day passes the scene at tacloban is becoming more and more chaotic as many try to leave the area because their homes were destroyed in the storm. a makeshift medical center has been set up in the remains of a building. there are sick people spill gs outside, people on drips inside. while people are waiting for the flights, there has been a baby born and one person has died from illness as far as we know. outside here, beyond the fence, you can see many people waiting for those flights. each day thousands of people make the long walk from where they used to li

and in terms of where you are compared to like tacloban, how far are you? >> reporter: we're just west, so we were on the outside edge definitely on the outside edge of the main storm surge. >> so being on the outside edge, how do they compare to storms you have been through in the past or seen? is it -- was it -- how did it compare? >> reporter: it -- you know, it was very, very substantial storm. a lot of wind, obviously. a lot of wind damage and huge amounts of rain. it basically just -- inondation with rain. >> do you have people in the areas of the direct path of the storm? if so, have you been able to contact them? >> reporter: we have a four-person team moving up into that area but not in it during the storm. >> how able are they to get there? transportation is difficult. there is a lot of flooding, a lot of debris around. >> reporter: right, where we are, it's a lot of downed trees, a lot of flooding. it's very slow to move around the island. it now light here so people are starting to clear out the roads and get the transportation lines open. >> wh

think sugar, say splenda™ we're live in tacloban. that sound you hear is a philippine air force c-130. that's landed. supplies are being off-loaded and they are going to be able to take out a number of philippine citizens, many camped out here for days in some cases but overnight and are very eager to get on that flight because of the security situation, the lack of food and water. there's a lot more to tell you about here. we are seeing pockets of hope and improvement. there are more organized effort to recover bodies, to recover the dead and get them off the streets. but first i want to go to wolf blitzer in washington with the latest domestic news. wolf? >> anderson, thanks very much. we'll get back to you shortly. there is breaking news we're following here. this was the moment critics of the affordable care act had been predicting, supporters of it had been dreading. the obama administration now releasing enrollment numbers for the first month of the operation. about 79,000 people enrolled through the state exchanges and about 2

wayne hay reports from tacloban >> reporter: there's to many casualties in tacloban, the main hospital has no time to deal with the dead. patients are outside - tired doctors and nurses take a break in the fresh air. most have worked long hours since the typhoon struck. inside there's no electricity, and it's hot. the main power generator was destroyed by the storm. >> the ground floor was flooded. we had to bring the patients to the second floor. the roof are destroyed when it rains. it leaks. it's the only available space to keep the patient dry and safe >> a small donated generator is enough to power one light bulb in the theatre - which is in desperate need of a clean. drugs like tet nus shots are needed. despite the challenges, the hospital has not stopped taking patients. all things considered the hospital is coping remarkedly well. the concern is the health situation could be about to get worse. in many areas a clean-up is far from beginning. debris lines the streets and the only place for a wash is the water in the harbour, which is more polluted than ever. adding to the proble

this is the tacloban convention center. a lot of people came in here to try and protect themselves from the storm. . the water reached the second story and the locals say anyone that was on the ground floor not expecting this storm surge simply didn't make it. many residents used this school as a shelter from the storm, but the water engulfed it. a lot of children died in here. only a few managed to survive. no one knows how many lost their lives. down the road, a public well is being put to use. >> for now we don't have enough water even though we are not sure that it is clean and safe, we still drink because we need to survive. >> we see just two trucks in two hours making their very slow way into the city and the heart of desperation. paula hancocks, cnn, the philippines. >> that was a view from the ground. our next guest got the view from the sky. al dwyer is the leader of the usaid leader of the disaster response team. he's done two flyovers one over tacloban and another across the coastline. tell us how bad this damag

focus should be on tacloban, not northern cebu, which you can see whatever the conditions are in tacloban - it's the same here was. >> the mayor decided to take matters into his own hands, sending people to look for food and water. a woman managed to abtain a truck with supplies. volunteers spent most of the night devieding -- dividing them into small packages. these are long nights. people here are trying to sleep in makeshift shelters, knowing they have lost their home. it proved difficulty. there's light in the darkness. at the city home, the only place with electricity, people are gathering to charge their mobile phones, so they can inform family members. the mood is cheerful and there's a chance of togetherness. people here are happy to be alive. >> everybody is a victim, so - and the filipino sense of humour also. it feels like it's a big party. you see around, it's like we are having a picnic here. >> but despite the optimism of the people of madeline, the mayor hopes the suffering will be taken seriously. >> if there's a lot of frustration. they say it's not fair to complain about

tacloban is a city of some 200,000 people. we don't yet, piers, have an accurate count of how many people lost their lives, how many are wounded and in need of immediate assistance, accurate number, we just simply don't have them. and that gives you a sense, we're now into the fourth day since the storm hit and it gives you a sense of how tough the communications are for the philippine government, they're hoping to get the airport running on a 24-hour basis, hoping to get relief out here. that is one of the problems, piers, there were no lights. it is very difficult to fly in there in the type of large-scale operations that are needed. hopefully that will start to move again, with the weather system moving in, in the next six hours that will definitely cause a crimp in the next several hours. we'll continue to follow it in the next several days, though, peers. >>> and obviously, we know the military is sending in aid, the chinese, as well, lots of countries helping now. but how restrictive is it for the moment to get the aid w

this city of tacloban is in ruins. at the airport, they're fighting for a chance to escape cries ofesperation fill the air. we need help, we need food, need water. r the children. >> reporr: overwhelmed and traumatized, their only option now is to get out. the typhoohas taken everything from them. >> everything is gone, our uses, everything. there's nothin to ea there's nothing drink. >> reporter: in the rus, the wnpour today. the survivors tacloban are now trying to rebuild their lives, but the misery goes on. [ speaking in foign language ] >> reporter: what's happening to my country? we have no food. help is nocoming, she says. peopleere have become scavengers, desperate fofood and water. even the youngt are snatching what they can. 's called bliss, the ne of a housing prect for peopleho had lost their homes in past typhoons. thisime it was no safe haven. bliss is made up of a maze of narrow alleyways, and when the typhoon struck, filled with water within seconds to above roof heights. and yet most survived, quickly

tacloban badly hit? this is worse. >> this is worse? >> this is worse. >> and it hasn't gotten the attention yet. >> not yet. not yet. there may be other towns that we still have to see, maybe as devastated as this one maybe even more. >> just a question of you being able to get to them. >> yes. >> captain trinidad says they've only been able to get to about 20% of the towns that may have been affected by the typhoon. >> if you were on the ground to see the sense of despair and hopelessness in the place of the people. unlike the other typhoons you see people starting to begin their normal lives. the fourth day after the typhoon, very soon will you see somebody starting. people walking around endlessly. >> people don't know where to begin. >> yes. >> now that they note landing strip can accommodate the osprey, u.s. army major leo leebright says they can quickly return. >> it opens up a new tool. we can start finding. a lot of capabilities with the aircraft. quick turns, carry a lot of cargo. drop off supplies, bring in injured. it's real

>>id you have fily behind in tacloban? >> i don't kw what's happened my family. >> repter: who is missing? >> reporter: 48 hours aft the monster storm struck, t air base in cebu is awash in humanity. those seeking to get out and ironically those seeking to get in, hoping to find led ones still alive. >> we'veeen here since last night and we'll still be here. >> reporter: their bodies pressed against thefence, they frustrated by what they believe has been an anemic response to the devastation. demanding informatn and clinging to hope that programs loved ones havescaped injury. there are a lotf people waitinhere. how will you decidwho gets to go first? >> if we ar lucky, we can . but if not, we cnot go. we have toait until tomorrow i guess. >> reporter:ut as the sun sets, one tng is for ceain. small towns and villagesemain cut off from the rest othe untry and some are gone forever as people head in dierent directions, picking up the pies of their lives. dr. nancy snyderman, nbc news cebu, philpines. >> ase id, it appearede'v

a route has been cleared to tacloban and the relief effort is very slowly ramping up. but for the last week, this must have been the most unbearable hell for the people will call this city home. y, theg out at the ba ocean now seems calm and beautiful. what a difference it must have been one week ago. >> i have been speaking to the mayor of tacloban. he was caught up in this typhoon washed over by the storm surge, narrowly escaped with his life, as did his children and wife. i gathered to him at the philippine authorities have taken far too long to deal with the storm, and he said nobody could have been prepared for something like this. he has also been speaking to the interior minister of the philippines, and this was his response to the same question. >> the basic infrastructure of any community that is normally found in any part of the world has been swept away. there are no vehicles here. everything you see here has been brought in from the outside. i imagine a situation from ,round zero where, on day one you have to set up mechanisms to feed, clothe, shelter, 275,

. >> this is the filipino city of tacloban. scaleeft stunned by the of the destruction i passed downtown on the way from the airport. what i have seen in other places was bad enough but it cannot compare to this. here, the storm raged, without mercy. haiyan hit with wind speed of over 300 kilometers per hour. this that was not enough provoked a huge storm surge. the simple wooden house that once stood here had no chance against the high walls of water. they were washed away with many of the people who lived in them. amid the ruins, i come across this woman who is looking for her brother and his wife. >> up to the present time -- >> there is little left of her and the samee, goes for the other buildings. nobody knows how many of the dead are still buried under the rubble. the stench of decay says this is quite a lot. bodies are being uncovered every day. he is one of the men carrying them away. he and his colleagues have recovered 40 bodies this morning. men, women and children. is labeled and put in a mass grave and the authori

tacloban's mayor urged residents to flee if they could. thousands jammed the ruined airport hoping to get one of the few seats out on military planes. most are still waiting. more than a dozen coastal communities are still cut off. there's a shortage of transportation in fuel and roads are clogged with debris. around the city, volunteers prepared to bury more bodies as the death toll rose above 2,300. >> people are dying here. too many people are dying. just for that storm. >> reporter: jaime fernandez lost almost everything in his home. there's very little left for him and his family to live on. >> we can't get any food or buy any food from other stores because there's no stores to buy. >> reporter: there were many more philippine security forces on the streets of tacloban today but the government has been criticized for being slow to respond. eight dies today after a wall collapsed as survivors mobbed a food warehouse. >> it's like a -- it's more like a civil war here. >> reporter: but help is starting to arrive. u.s. military flights ar

she joins me by the congressman whose district includes tacloban. welcome to both of you, christina, if i could start with you. this is the ultimate nightmare, the philippines gets between ten and 20 typhoons a year, but nothing like this scale, when did you realize this was a massive storm? >> well, we were already getting ready for the massive storm because we knew it was a very strong super typhoon, since we got all the information. so we were meeting with all the local government department heads. and even the already evacuating people. even three days before. and letting them stay at the evacuation centers. so we were just getting ready, you know, hoping for the best but preparing for the worst, so to speak. and hoping you know, it would divert, still. but when we were actually there, and we heard the strong winds around before 8:00 in the morning, and hearing and feeling how strong it was, shaking our roofs, you know. and that is when i realized yes, this is it. >> and christina, you with your two little girls, it must have been a very terrify

tacloban badly hit? this is worse. >> this is worse? >> this is worse. >> and it hasn't gotten the attention yet. >> not yet. not yet. there may be other towns that we still have to see, maybe as devastated as this one maybe even more. >> just a question of you being able to get to them. >> yes. >> captain trinidad says they've only been able to get to about 20% of the towns that may have been affected by the typhoon. >> if you were on the ground to see the sense of despair and hopelessness in the face of the people. unlike the other typhoons you see people starting to begin their normal lives. the fourth day after the typhoon, very soon will you see somebody starting to build his life. people walking around endlessly. >> people don't know where to begin. >> yes. >> now that they know landing strip can accommodate the osprey, u.s. army major leo leebright says they can quickly return. >> it opens up a new tool. a lot of capabilities with the aircraft. quick turns, carry a lot of cargo. drop off supplies, bring in injured. it's really an

this city of tacloban is in ruins. at the airport, they're fighting for a chance to escape cries ofesperation fill the air. we need help, we need food, need water. r the children. >> reporr: overwhelmed and traumatized, their only option now is to get out. the typhoohas taken everything from them. >> everything is gone, our uses, everything. there's nothin to ea there's nothing drink. >> reporter: in the rus, the wnpour today. the survivors tacloban are now trying to rebuild their lives, but the misery goes on. [ speaking in foign language ] >> reporter: what's happening to my country? we have no food.

here's tacloban right there. the center of this will pass to the south of tacloban but we will only see winds of about 35 miles per hour. that's not the issue. the issue is that everything's torn up. the sheets of plywood, the corrugated metal, everywhere so a 35 mile per hour wind will blow things around but the rain will also make things worse. you don't want rain and low clouds when you're trying to land planes on run ways that don't even have lights anyway. this will make the difficult decisions of getting in and out of some of these very hard-hit areas and very rough airports even more difficult as we speak with these low clouds and rain showers. >> chad, whenever we have a storm like this, whether it strikes in asia or even hurricane sandy in the u.s., people ask the question did climate change play a part. i know it's difficult to make connections like that but we pulled up the commentary end of last year from the chief philippines negotiator at the climate talks that gave a tearful appeal for progress, sa

for tacloban the main hospital has no time to deal with the dead. patients are inside while doctors and nurses take a rare break in the fresh air. most have been working long

officials are trying to move supplies from the island of cebu to tacloban. cbs news contribute barnaby lo is in cebu with more relief efforts. barnaby. >> reporter: good morning, anne-marie. aid has started arriving here in the central philippines. this is the reason it was battered by typhoon haiyan. the cargo plane has just arrived. the u.s. has sent a plane load of equipment but can't help clear the roads for aides to get to millions of people. in tacloban city, millions have lost their homes, they're sleeping under pouring rains, they do not have enough food and water so they've been looting the grocery stores. there is another that just made landfall in the southern philippines and it's bringing thunderstorms to the region as well. it's already hampered relief efforts. now stranded in ports here at the air base, soldiers continue to load relief goods on military aircraft, though it's unclear whether they can get to tacloban city. >> barnaby, i know you had a hotel close to the shore. tell us what you the experience was like when the typhoon came ashore.

the first mass burial took place outside tacloban without ceremony. >> 40,000 people in tacloban got water, rice, canned goods and victims. each ration is enough to feed a family for 2-3 days. another shipment is expected today. the u.s.s. "george washington" is arriving today, carrying 5,000 sailors to aid in the rescue and relief efforts of the the arriving of the aircraft carrier will trip the the number of helicopters. they'll help to deliver hundreds of thousands of gallons of water. >> in a town in northern cebu one person was killed in the storm. it suffered significant damage. officials say requests for aid have gone unanswered. al jazeera's correspondent is on the island in northern cebu with this report. >> many people survived in this part of the philippines, there's a lot of destruction. houses are damaged and the focus of aid or operation is not this area. there's hardly any attention. they are begging the international community and the government of philippines to send aid to this area. send tents, sleeping bags and blankets and food, water, medication - anything they

it was positive say that the water productions here in tacloban is up and running. clean water is available. unfortunately, the network has been damaged. that has been critical that that's repaired. we're aware that sanitation can present it's own risk. the longer people go without sanitation an clean water, the greater the december o risk of e outbreak. all of this to say there is a small relief that they felt that the operation is picking up pace. there is no time to--it's more about pushing and pushing and getting these areas wrapped up. >> how important is the coordination between all of these relief agencies to be as effective as possible? >> absolutely critical. particularly given from some remote areas are still coming in, and we're still getting an idea of the precise nature of how much people are effected, and what--we know now 3 million people are affected. that's over a huge area. not just tacloban, but outside of the city, east and west of the city, so we need to work very closely together. we need to work closely with the government that there is no add