and her political future. that's tomorrow on "the lead" at 4:00 p.m. eastern. for now, i turn you over to the good hands of wolf blitzer in "the situation room." happening now, unthinkable devastation. millions of people affected and a death toll that could easily reach 10,000. one survivor calling it worse than hell. cnn is on the ground in the philippines. we'll show you the terrifying moments when one of the strongest storms on record hit. our crew was in the middle of it all and carried out a dramatic rescue. with vast areas battered and isolated, people around the world are desperate to learn the fate of loved ones. we'll speak to an american woman who is trying to reach her family. i'm wolf blitzer. you' in "the situation room." the bodies are everywhere and the rubble of towns that no longer exist, three days after a record typhoon pounded the

philippines with a storm surge up to 20 feet and winds o 200 miles an hour, close to 1,000 people are officially listed as dead but officials fear the death toll will reach at least 10,000. survivors are desperately trying to find food, water and their loved ones. more than 9.5 million people, a tenth of the population of the philippines, have been affected. more than 600,000 people have been forced from their homes. on this veterans day, u.s. marines arrived to help a country where americans once fought and died. the united states is sending shelter and hygiene supplies to aid 10,000 families and 55 tons of emergency rations which can feed 20,000 children and 15,000 adults, at least for a few days. seen from the air, the scale of the devastation is breathtaking. almost unimaginable. on the ground, the grim reality, entire towns turned into rubble, stunned survivors scavenge for food and water amid the stench

of bodies. let's go live to the island of sebu, which took a direct hit. anna, you tveled with the military to a remote group of islands devastated by the typhoon. tell our viewers what you saw. >> reporter: well, wolf, we are here at the cebu air base which is very much a staging ground for this massive military operation to get food, to get water, to get those desperately needed supplies to the people who need it. as you say, we joined the military and went to one of those really hard-hit areas. i mean, you're talking town after town, village after village, absolutely decimated. no place was spared. and authorities are telling us that some 90% of these towns have actually just been demolished so this is what we are facing. for the survivors, it is now up to almost day five in which they have been without food and clean water. so it really is a race against

time in getting those supplies to the people who so desperately need it. >> you spoke with some of the survivors on the ground, i know. these must be heartbreaking stories. give us a little gist. what are they telling you? >> reporter: for sure, wolf. these people are getting off these c-130 hercules airplanes at the cebu airfield and have come from the disaster zone, are shaking their heads in amazement as to how they survived this horrific super typhoon, haiyan. they are shell-shocked. some of the people we spoke to yesterday spoke about the stench of death everywhere, about how they knew this typhoon was going hit the philippines, there was plenty of warning. the president took to the air and warned everybody to take precautions and to take necessary evacuations but no one expected the storm to be this ferocious. so let's have a listen to what

some of those people had to say. >> experienced a lot of typhoon, but this is the worst thing. >> a lot of people are dead. our friends are dead. some of our family members are dead. so it's really devastating. >> i am the only survivor of the family and i want to know if they are still alive. >> reporter: absolutely excruciating for those people. as you can imagine, they are holding on to hope that many of the missing are presumed dead. obviously the death count at this stage is still quite low but we have been hearing from people on the ground, from authorities, from officials, that it could rise to as much as 10,000. now, i want to bring in lieutenant commander mark enruiqez who is very much involved with the military operation to get that aid and supply to people that desperately need it. lieutenant commander, tell me, we are going to be seeing a lot of activity here over the next few hours, aren't we? >> yes.

starting from now, planes will be coming in to carry relief to the remote areas. actually one of our planes has already departed to somewhere, one of the provinces that was badly hit by the typhoon. >> reporter: we can see that there is aid already packed up on the runway, it's in boxes, ready to go. is there enough aid? do you need more? >> definitely, we need more. we are expecting an increase of families without homes and without basic necessities so we definitely need extra help, if anybody can assist us. >> reporter: tell us the logistical problem of getting this aid out to the people, because the philippines is an archepelago, it's very difficult to get to these places where runways and roads have been washed out. tell us the challenges you are

facing. >> because of the nature of the country, we have problems with our logistics and we also have limited numbers of naval crafts and aircrafts so we are doing our best to deliver the goods as fast as possible to the remote areas. >> reporter: we know u.s. marines are on the ground helping. the u.s. is obviously sending in aid, as are other countries. tell us how dire is it, how bad is it on the ground in those badly hit areas? >> we know that it's almost five days from when the typhoon hit the philippines so some of the families there have no medicine, basic necessities like food and

water, so we are -- they are in bad need of some assistance. >> reporter: most definitely. lieutenant commander, we appreciate your time and all your efforts. wolf, as you know, it really is a race against time for the survivors. as you can probably see behind me, too, the dark looming storm clouds. the weather bureau is predicting more rain, if not a typhoon. so this is obviously the last thing that the people of the philippines and the people in those hard-hit areas need. >> we will get back to you. thanks so much. thank the officer for us as well. the devastation and misery defy the imagination. one survivor calling it worse than hell. cnn's brian todd is here with us. brian, the pictures, the images are totally devastating. >> they really are. all day we have been bringing in incredible video, gathering information, getting accounts of what some of the victims are going through as the world gets its first significant look at this devastation. we have to warn you, some of these images could be disturbing to some viewers.

in tacloban, some bodies are covered, placed on the sides of the streets, but many others remain where they died. a tourist from new zealand describes what he saw in that devastated city. >> we saw five dead bodies just wrapped up in plastic and one other child probably 8 or 9 just being carried in a plastic bag who had drowned. most of them are drownings. >> two responders remove a body from a massive field of debris. relief officials are worried the decaying bodies will create health risks for survivors. many of whom are drinking water from wells, not knowing if it's contaminated. >> we don't have enough water, even though we are not sure that it is clean and safe, we still drink from it because we need to survive. >> reporter: in tacloban, a city of more than 200,000, survivors walk the streets shell-shocked, scavenging for anything to sustain them. this video shows the incredible power of the storm surge. massive tankers picked up and carried ashore in tacloban.

some of these vessels slammed into homes. before this storm, hundreds of thousands of people had been evacuated, moved to sturdy shelters. but the brick and mortar was no match for the 20 foot surge that hit tacloban. in some places, people are lining up for water and gas in an orderly fashion, but there are also reports of looting. one witness was asked if looters were just trying to get food. >> i saw them, two people, three people, carrying brand new refrigerators, brand new washing machines, motorcycles, brand new, you know. i mean, apiances. >> reporter: new video in to cnn shows the first moments when the storm hit early friday. and scenes of desperation in the hours immediately afterward. some of these people can barely keep their head above water. the mayor of tacloban and his family were inside this structure, stood on tables to avoid the surge, then had to punch holes in the cling and climb to the rafters to survive. the mayor now says quote, i have

not spoken to anyone who has not lost someone. and his constituents are desperate. >> get international help to come here now. not tomorrow, now. this is really, really like bad, worse than hell. worse than hell. >> reporter: massive amounts of aid are coming in from philippine authorities, the united states and elsewhere. the u.s. agency for international development is sending emergency shelter materials and basic hygiene supplies that can service 10,000 families as well as 55 metric tons of emergency rations. but wolf, it's a logistical challenge. the airport's a long way from the town of tacloban, about nine miles away. debris all over the road. as anna mentioned, they are getting another storm, a tropical depression on the way that will complicate things. >> brian, thanks very much for that report. to learn what you can do to help these storm victims in the philippines, go to our website, cnn.com/impact.

up next, a cnn crew in the philippines keeps the cameras rolling as one of the most powerful storms in history bears down on them. you won't believe just how loud the storm sounded as it hit the city. and a massive rescue effort to find survivors now under way. we will speak to a woman here in the united states who is desperately trying to find her family in the philippines. my customers can shop around-- see who does good work and compare costs.

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this is what the inside of a super typhoon looks like. 250 kilometer an hour plus winds slamming into a city. a white haze of screaming noise, smashing windows, tearing metal, water and flying debris. just minutes after we finished our live shots telling headquarters that we were moving to safer ground, cameraman brad olson shot this in the place we had just left. as the destruction there continued, the floor below, terrified residents huddled together, finding protection against the flying spray and mind-numbing noise. some prayed for their safety.

we're sheltering in the corridor. it's a relatively secure area, i think, where we are. it's a very substantial hotel, this, and we are away from windows. but all around us, you hear the sounds of windows breaking, you hear the sounds of large objects falling, crashing to the floor, and underfoot, it is now just a deluge. if you look behind me, i don't know if you can see it, the staircase behind me is now basically a waterfall. then a torrent of black water began pouring into the hotel. the storm surge had begun. >> go upstairs. >> reporter: within a few minutes, it was at ground floor window level. a panicked family now trapped in their room smashed the window and screamed for help. we managed to get the mother across to safety and it immediately became clear the cause of their panic. their daughter was severely disabled.

storm chaser josh morgan and i went back across to get the terrified girl to safety. cnn producer tim schwartz helped rescue the rest of the family. the waters only rose a little higher. the height of the storm in fact had passed. two hours later, the winds had lost their lethal strength. our live position was a ruined shell. as we walked outside, it was immediately clear that so much of the city had suffered so much more than we had. i can say that the family that we got out of that room, they are all absolutely fine, which is a great relief to everybody. but one of our initial frustrations was once we got out of the storm, that storm lasted i guess for about five hours, we were holed up there. once we got out, the winds were still pretty strong but we had massive equipment failure. both of our computers, we had a computer and then a backup computer which we sealed. those went down. the camera worked for about ten

minutes. that went down. the backup camera was also down. so we couldn't contact anybody at all for more than 24 hours. it gave us a sense of what sort of frustration in that city must have been having to everybody else. nobody in the outside world knew how bad it was for at least 24 hours. >> andrew, tell us what's going on behind you. >> reporter: okay. 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 that's coming in here, the food, the water that's coming in here is getting to the main part of the city by helicopter. people are choosing to walk those 14 kilometers from downtown to get out here to get their bags of rice, to get their bottles of water rather than wait for it to be delivered. it gives you an idea of just how critical the timing has become in this rescue operation. >> wow. all right, andrew, thanks very much. thanks for all the good work you and the entire team have done there, literally saving lives. andrew stevens on the ground for us. appreciate it. turning now to the story of

hope in the middle of tragedy. a baby was born in a makeshift medical center right in the rubble of what was once an airport in tacloban, philippines. the associated press reporting the mother had to swim through flood water and cling to a post to survive. there are also reports the baby is safe after being evacuated from the city. in the wake of this killer storm, the relief needs are truly staggering. children are especially vulnerable. the philippines representative from unicef, the united nations children's fund, is joining us on the phone from manila right now. what is the latest, how bad is the situation over there? >> yes, the situation on the ground is very hideous. children are among the most vulnerable in such disasters. their immediate needs include food, shelter, clean water and sanitation, basic services and

medicines, and also protection from unsafe and uncertain conditions. all of them are in a shelter at the moment on the ground. >> you sent us these pictures of the important work you're doing. have you ever seen anything like this before in all your years working on these kinds of disaster relief projects? >> i think the closest that comes to my mind is tsunami, indian ocean tsunami in 2004. many of, you know, our staff who go there, they say that it reminds them of that. no complete structure standing intact and the amount of debris and other damage, that's how bad it is. >> well, good luck over there. thank you for all the important work you're doing.

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people are missing all across the philippines right now because so much of the country is without electricity, finding loved ones is a very, very difficult task. joining us now from atlanta is donna culler. her aunt, uncle, three cousins are all missing in tacloban in the philippines. donna, thanks very much for joining us. i know this is an awful time for you. how long have you been trying to contact your relatives? >> we have been trying to reach them since friday and saturday, hoping that we'll hear from them. >> is there any luck whatsoever? >> no. we haven't had much luck. we're a little bit concerned because usually our cousins are very active in the social media platform but we have not heard a single thing from them so that's a little bit mind-boggling for us. >> have you been able to get in touch with any of their friends or acquaintances in tacloban? >> that's what we have been trying to do.

like i said, we haven't had any luck or any lead at all for where they are. >> when was the last time you spoke with them? >> we heard back from them last thursday. like i said, my cousins are very active in facebook. we have seen posts from them. but after that, we have not seen any update at all from any family members. >> what did they say on thursday just as that storm, that typhoon, was beginning to hit the philippines? >> they didn't seem to be concerned about it. we thought that they were trying to find ways, you know, and we're just a little bit concerned if they're being stubborn or not but hopefully they were able to find some place, a safe place to be. >> do you know if they had supplies, food, water, protection, if you will? >> we don't know that. >> and you don't know if they tried, you assume they didn't try to evacuate before the storm hit.

>> we're assuming right now because we were hoping that if they did evacuate, that we would have heard from them now. so they might have stayed at tacloban city. >> when you see the pictures, the video coming out of the philippines right now, this must be such a horrendous, awful thing for you, as you have to endure these images. >> definitely. it's scary to think that it could be one of your family that's going through this. it's definitely a bit concerning for us. we're hoping that this would be a way for us to hear from them. >> have you reached out to authorities, whether u.s. or filipino embassy officials, international organizations, relief organizations? have you reached out to any of these groups that are on the ground now trying to help? >> yes, we have. we have utilized a website that's been trying to locate victims. we have put in and entered their

names and hoping that they will be in the data base. >> donna, please keep us informed. hopefully everything will be all right and your relatives, your three cousins, your uncle, your aunt, will be okay, maybe just the power out, no electricity, they can't communicate with the outside world. let's hope it's simply that. but good luck to you. >> thank you so much. that's what we're hoping for. >> i'm hoping for that as well and all of our viewers are. thank you. please be sure to tune in at the top of the hour for all the latest news coming out of the philippines. we will have more harrowing stories just as the storm hit, plus all the latest ongoing right now in the rescue operations. it's a "situation room" special report beginning right at the top of the hour. coming up, other news we're following, including this. from breakthrough to blame game, what happened to the nuclear talks between iran and the west? plus, is elizabeth warren hillary clinton's worst nightmare? why some say the senator could give hillary clinton a run for

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iaea. they met in tehran and agreed to inspect some of iran's nuclear sites but a bigger picture longer term agreement will have to wait. after leaving geneva without a deal, secretary of state john kerry insisted today that the u.s. and its allies were together and that it was iran that walked away. >> there was unity. but iran couldn't take it at that particular moment. they weren't able to accept that particular agreement. >> reporter: that didn't sit well with his iranian counterpart, who fired back a different version of events via twitter. he pointed the finger firmly at the west. mr. secretary, was it iran that gutted over half of the u.s. draft thursday night, he tweeted, and publicly commented against it friday morning? the missives came after signs this weekend of a split between the french and everyone else, with the french insisting on more concessions from iran, including a stop to the construction of a heavy water reactor capable of producing

plutonium. the two sides will meet again in geneva later this month, but the delay gives opponents such as israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu time to mobilize against any deal with iran. >> there are many, many arab leaders in the region who are saying this is a very bad deal for the region and for the world and you know, when you have the arabs and israelis speaking in one voice, doesn't happen very often, i think it's worth paying attention to us. >> reporter: the opposition is mobilizing on capitol hill as well. republican senator lindsay graham vowing on cnn's "state of the union" sunday to move forward with additional sanctions on iran. >> i have never been more worried about the obama administration's approach to the mideast than i am now. we seem to want deals worse than anybody else in the region. thank god for france and thank god for push-back. >> reporter: secretary kerry will be testifying before the senate banking committee this week with the goal of trying to convince them to hold off on new sanctions. the chairman of that committee,

senator tim johnson, says he won't decide until he hears from kerry. we have the next round of talks already set for november 20th but those are going to be at the political director level, not the foreign ministers or secretary of state. a sign we could maybe have some time before they reach a deal. >> john kerry will not be going back to geneva. >> unless his aides say there's a reason for him to go back and they're really close. >> thanks very much for that report. let's dig a little deeper right now. joining us, fareed zakaria. fareed, thanks very much. i was watching your show yesterday, you had a very provocative comment there and i was wondering if you want to explain. you were suggesting, i want to be precise, that some of the critics of this potential deal think that no deal is better. are you suggesting that maybe they want the military option as the only solution here? >> well, look, any kind of deal, wolf, will still leave iran with

a very serious nuclear establishment. we know that. iran has over 1,000 scientists who are working on its nuclear program and they are allowed by the iaea to do that kind of thing. so i think a lot of people look at this and say yeah, you can have inspections, yes, you can have certain kind of constraints, but at the end of the day, that still leaves iran with what is called a breakout capacity, the ability within a few months or maybe within six months to achieve weaponization. that is a capacity that japan has, that many countries that have nuclear, civilian nuclear energy programs, have. for those kinds of people, and i am thinking of prime minister benjamin netanyahu in israel, they are really worried that any kind of capacity is too much, and in that circumstance, i think they would rather have a kind of crisis, road to a crisis which would force either the united states or perhaps israel to take military action. >> but you know, it's not just israel and the israelis obviously, if you listen to

netanyahu, deeply, deeply concerned about what the u.s. and the others are trying to do. they are more in line let's say with france, which was a little skeptical, much more skeptical. but if you speak to the saudis privately or if you speak to the united arab emirates or the kuwaitis or in qatar, they are almost as nervous as the israelis about these negotiations. >> the political backdrop behind which all this is happening, as you well know, is a very deep schism in the muslim world between the shias and the sunnis. they are very suspicious of iran, view it as a shiite power and this schism is playing itself out in syria, in iraq, where each side supports militias of their sect so iran is seen as the ultimate shia power. my own view is that the united states and the west should not get caught in fighting local

battles for these people. we should be looking at this from the point of view, is iran going to be a threat to the world, to the region, and how do we prevent that. we can make a deal on nuclear weapons. we can't change the complexion of iran and make it sunni or shia, and we shouldn't get into that battle. the saudis have deep anxieties about iran that go back centuries before its nuclear program. >> fareed zakaria, thank you very much. >> pleasure, wolf. president obama paid tribute to veterans of the united states military today by laying a wreath at arlington national cemetery. he also hosted a veterans day breakfast over at the white house for those who have served and their families. at the wreath laying, the president spoke about ending the war in afghanistan and improving veterans' health care. he took a moment to recognize one of the nation's oldest veterans, 107-year-old richard overton, from texas, who attended today's ceremony. thank you to all the veterans.

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hillary clinton hasn't declared a white house run yet, but the democrats' odds-on favorite could face a potential challenge from another woman, an outspoken progressive who is not afraid of a challenge. cnn's erin mcpike reports. >> reporter: with fund-raising and speaking engagements from coast to coast, hillary clinton continues to dominate the 2016 presidential speculation. >> thank you. >> reporter: but there's an unapologetic liberal who could

stir things up. >> you don't get anything you don't fight for. but if you fight, you got a chance to win. >> reporter: first term massachusetts senator, elizabeth warren. >> i don't want to go to the united states senate to be there for women some of the time. i want to go to the united states senate to be there for women all of the time. >> reporter: she's another fast rising star who could make history and might threaten a clinton democratic coronation if they both run for the white house three years from now. >> hillary has run once before, is the inevitable nominee. another new fresh face came along with an issue and was able to kind of excite passions among the democratic rank and file, was able to do it. so i don't think it's crazy. >> reporter: warren is a former harvard professor, a progressive populist who burst on to the scene in 2008 when harry reid tapped her to oversee the controversial bank bailout. next, she urged president obama to form a government entity to

protect consumers and their finances. the left wanted her to lead it but banks and republicans balked. >> it is so good to be here with so many progressives. i love it. >> reporter: instead, she took on massachusetts senator scott brown in 2012 and won after a sharp and expensive campaign. in the senate, she got right to business, grilling financial regulators like at this senate banking committee hearing which produced a video that became an internet sensation earlier this year. >> tell me a little bit about the last few times you've taken the biggest financial institutions on wall street all the way to a trial. anybody? >> reporter: there's one snag to this whole idea. a democratic source tells cnn that north carolina senator kay hagan said all the democratic women in the senate and that of course includes warren, has signed a secret letter to hillary clinton encouraging her to run.

now, while that might leave progressives looking for another option, warren has not yet declared her support for clinton and she has yet to publicly discuss her own intentions for 2016. wolf? >> interesting stuff. erin, thank you. let's dig a little deeper right now. joining us, our chief political analyst, gloria what about that last point, that supposedly all the democratic women, senators, signed a secret letter that endorsed in effect hillary clinton for the democratic presidential nomination? >> i think they overstate it. they encourage the right-hand, that's about as uncontroversial a proposition in the democratic party today as motherhood and apple pie. so i don't read a whole lot into it. i i think the opposite scenario, had elizabeth warren been the only woman not to sign it, she would have effectively signaled that she was going to run -- >> but that's a heart thing to back out of, isn't it?

>> well, you were encouraging me to run for president. i think her -- >> i think people have backed out of more constraining commitments. barack obama on "meet the press" in 2005 was asked by will you be a candidate in 2008? he said i will not be. i'm sure she would say -- >> this is the cover story in the "the new republic" that you wrote, hillary's nightmare does she have -- barack obama, he was unknown, and he challenged hillary clinton, and he got the democratic presidential nomination. does she have that in her instinct? is she a great politician like that? >> she has an enormous

apparatus. just a preposterous amount of money. she excites liberal passion. you would sigh even barack obama back then. the only sort of ideological case against hillary was the war, the vote and what that symbolizes. warren has a coherent point of view where democrats are these days. if you look at the way the party has evolved, much more skeptical about the power of business, much more skeptical about wall street, much more frustrated about the plight of the middle class. those are warren's issues itches the questions is whether she's learned the lesson from her last campaign, because it was far from perfect. hillary clinton 92% popularity within the democratic party. some of those people are elizabeth warren supporters, obviously. the question is whether hillary would position herself to run against wall street. i would presume she would. i would presume the republican candidate would run against wall street this time. so it seems what warren has been

about in her senate run here is about her -- building her profile, because she cares about those particular issues. she has stuck to that issue set. if hillary clinton were to say, i'm with you on this or that, hillary clinton has disappointed her in the past, i could see warren endorsing her if hillary ran >> a good political conversation. quickly i want to get your thoughts, gloria, you first, "wall street journal" reporting so as far as since october 1st fewer than 50,000 people have managed to successfully enroll in the affordable care act. we got a statement from the department of health and human services said we cannot confirm these numbers. we always anticipated initial numbers would be low, but that's a small, small number, especially if you conclude a lot of these people are medicate recipients as opposed to people paying into the system. >> when they first did their estimates before the website was

massed, they expected 800,000 to enroll by the end of this month. so this number is far from that, no matter which way you look at it, and they've been lowering expectations. every day they say the numbers will be low, the numbers are going to be low. what they're hoping is once they get the website up and running, people will say, okay, i don't have to spend five hours doing this anymore, that younger people they may need will actually start to enroll toward the end of the deadline, but of course, wolf, this is disappointing, and they're kind of getting us ready for the bad numbers. first thing they have to do is fix that website. good article, the cover in "the new republic." gloria always good to have you in "the situation room" as well. coming up, the power storm, from the frantic rescue efforts to the hairos stories, a "the situation room" special report, deadly typhoon, is coming up. to all the veterans...

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first joining us from cebu. what is going on there, anna? >> reporter: as you can imagine, a massive relief operation is under way to get supplies to those who so desperately need it. we're at the stages ground. on the tarmac are supplies, but as is you can see, it's started raining, which will hamper efforts. there are a lot of people who desperately need help. we've outsourced supplying for some five days. people, as you can imagine, are really struggling. across huge expanses of the philippines, there is nothing left but rubble and desperation. you can sigh it from the air and feel it and smell it on the ground. survivors will pass the ruins of

their homes and lives, focused on one thing -- finding food. the as they scrounge for scraps. >> international help to come here now. not tomorrow, now. this is really, really like bad, bad, worse than hell. worse than hell. >> reporter: u.s. marines are on the ground. relief operations are under way. the food, clean water and misdemeanor supplies can't come fast enough. this airfield in cebu has become the staging ground to the country's biggest relief operation. there's a real sense of desperation on the ground while the focus is obviously on the sick and injured and getting them to safety. the people of this hard-hit island need food and fresh water. they've been without it for days. despite assurances from the government, it is yet to arrive. the problem facing it is

logistics, getting the supplies to the hard-hit and remote areas. >> so many roads are impassable, clogged with debris and littered with bodities. the stench is terrible. for many, the pain is unbearable. >> a lot of people are dead, our friends are dead. some of our family members are dead. it's really devastating. >> i am the only survivor of the family. i want to know if they are still alive. >> as the death toll grows, families are desperately searching for loved ones. swept after by one of the most powerful storms ever to strike the planet. like a tornado just passed us. it lasted for four hours. at first it was the ceilings that went off. then the roofs just started flying in all direction. >> a 15 to 25-foot wave came across entire villages. so everything is wiped out.

>> reporter: in the midst of this death and destruction, a baby girl was born at a clinic. her mother swam to stay alive. delivering a new life and glimmer of hope. s wolf, as we know, those stories of hope are few and far between. there is so much misery here. thousands of people, many of them are presumed dead. the government is yet to confirm that 10,000 number as a death toll, but certain that's what authorities in the hard-hit provinces are saying. now very shortly c-130 hercules will be landing, and they will be dropping off people from those hard-hit areas, and then taking supplies back to the people who so desperately need it, but obviously this weather is going to cause them a huge problem. it's going to hamper those efforts. of course, only bring much more

misery to the people, wolf, who have lost absolutely everything. >> anna, are a lot of planes landing with supplies, food, water, medicine? or just a few planes? they're desperate, these people over there. >> reporter: they certainly are desperate. what we said yesterday here at the air base, and certainly planes were going in and out. there is obviously a bit of disorganization. that's completely understandable, considering the natural disaster has occurred. the philippines, they knew this storm was coming, no one anticipated the intensity, so so many people were caught off-guard. certainly they need more planes, more resources. this will be between here and the devastated areas. they need more aid and

desperately need more help. anna koran on the scene for us. thank yanna coren on the scene for us. thank you. cnn's paula hancock is standing by. we have to warn you, her record contains very disturbing images. paula, what are you seeing there? >> reporter: well, wolf, we took a road on the road just recently been opened up so they can get aid, and it was surprising what we saw. the sign refers to a very different time. now, all that greets visitors on the road to tacloban is devastate. three dates since the storm itself, there are still bodies by the side of the road. we can't show you the faces of these bodies, as it's just too

graphic. you can still see the terror, as the wave hit on their faces of these bodies, and they're still here three days on. some of them are crudely covered. others are just open and have blackened skin from the sun. the officials say they're looking at the living, which is what you would under, but they have to get rid of the bodies. this is a health issue of people living and trying to survive here. the stench a overpowering. and of course they have to start considering disease. this is the tacloban convention center according to the locals, a lot of people came in here to try to protect themselves from the storm. as you can see, the water reached the second story, and the locals say that anyone was on the ground floor not expecting the storm surge, didn't make it. they used this school as a shelter from the storm, but the water engulfed it.

this resident says 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. erchlts snow we don't have enough water, even though we are not sure -- we still drink from it, because we need to survive. >> reporter: we see just two trucks in two hours, making a slot way into the city, in the heart of desperation. obviously it was the storm surge that did a lot of the damage, but within man said it was lycra tsunami, but if he had been warned it was going to be like a tsunami, if that word was used, he would have understood. the fact they said storm surge, he had no xre hence of what it could be. >> paula on the scene for us, thank you. many of the survivors are still dazed, reliving their

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a state of national calamity has been declared in the philippines three days after. now there's a new storm threat. let's bring in our severe weather expert chad myers, who's got the latest. chad, how bad can this be? >> you don't have a roof over your head, you don't have power, anded rain is blowing. it can also impair or even stop some of the helicopters landings if the ceilings come down low enough. it's still raining in these areas. they don't need anything like this. it's not a major system, not another typhoon, but it could brew into something in the south china sea after it passes over the philippines.

i have some incredible pictures. >> if you take a look at google earth, the shanty towns, almost like houseboats. this is what it looked like before the typhoon hit a 15-foot wave completely wiped all of those boats out, pushed them onshore and wiped out the homes look tacloban city. here's the airport. what it looked lie before the typhoon, here's what it looks like now. just like what rita did to the texas coast. here is the airport itself. beautiful airport. now it's completely destroyed. no communications in or out of there tonight at all. >> what a heartbreaking story all around. chad, thank you. about 620,000 people have been displaced by the typhoon. some have sought shelter at that damaged airport in tacloban. andrew stevens has brand-new images. what is it like now, andrew?

>> reporter: close to shambles is -- we camped here overnight. it absolutely poured down, absolute teeming rain. people are still pouring in, as i look behind the camera, people are coming in, trying to find a way out of here. also people are coming from outside the immediate area, but to get here is still a big, big deal. i think they have opened the road, wolf, that has happened, but it's still quite a journey to get there. this road is so critical, because it will be a supply line, a key supply line for relief into the city yesterday take a look at what we saw. . just to give you an idea, we're here three days after the storm now. we are trying to get to the airport, which is 14 kilometers away. our driver was supposed to come today, but he hasn't turned up.

we can only assume he's got his own family issues to deal with. basically 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. about 244 people, minor injuries, but this is all now charity from local ngos. we're not going to the airport, are you guys going there? >> we're going to the airport. >> okay. i think we could be lucky. >> this pickup is going to the airport. so off to the airport, 14 kilometers to go. hopefully a fairly clear road,

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the united states military taking steps -- let's go to our barbara starr. she's getting new information. >> this is rapidly by the hour turn bog a major u.s. effort by the united states military. the aircraft carrier "george washington" at this hour in port in hong kong is loading up, getting the crew back on board and setting sail for the philippines. they will all have helicopters to help move supplies around, be able to provide medical assistance, bring in additional fresh supplies so this will be a massive effort. they expect to be on station in

the philippines in the next 48 to 72 hours. >> are more air krafl coming in, c-10s, with supplies as well. ? >> reporter: yes, plan on seeing that, right now the u.s. air force has combat air controllers on the ground at the airfield trying to help the fell even forces getting that airfield up and running again. they're very used to working in combat conditions, actually, so they will be very useful to the philippines in getting that all moving again. one open, it will be able to run 24/7. right now it cannot function during nighttime hours. once they get it running, more efforts to keep supplying flowing in.

>> they've been to do it quick in order to save lives. thank you, baara. anna coren isn philippines at one of the airfields. the weather reports we're getting are ominous. what are you seeing now as far as planes arriving where you are? >> reporter: without a doubt, wolf. we would have expected more planes in the last hour, but no cargo planes have landed. yet there are supplies stacked up on the airfield ready to go. there are hundreds of soldiers here as well who are here to assist and getting on the plans. where the front is coming in.

particularly now that the rain is coming in. it's going to provide more -- or produce, i should say, much more misery. are there trucks there capable of moving supplies into areas. as we say, it's been several days. >> reporter: it's quite frank. you would expect more activity. i know in the coming hours, obviously it will pick up, but you certainly would expect more planes, more helicopters and more trucks. there really is, i guess, a

surge of disorganization into how this relief effort will play out, because the storm really caught people off-guard. as for trucking goods to these places, you know, the philippines is made up of 7,000 islands. so where this typhoon head, it's affected many, many islands. to get to those islands, tore hard-hit areas, people have to take boats. it takes a very long time, and then to drive, many of those roads have been washed out. they have huge challenges in making those pathways accessible and then getting the aid to the people who need it. >> anna coren, be careful. i know there's concern about waterborne illnesses developing in the aftermath. we'll be in tough with you. please stay with cnn for complete team coverage. we have reporting unlike nim

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