through. >> reporter: young was not sure it would work, but today, this vet credits whiskey, this dog, for saving his life. >> i was a skeptic, once i got the dog, like the second day a light came on. and everything changed. >> reporter: before meeting whiskey, young could barely leave his house. now, he doesn't think about suicide. he thinks about the future. >> and i go out, no problem. if i start to get stressed out or have an anxiety attack, i just pet her and relax. and that takes all the anxiety away. >> reporter: sergeant alonzo lundsford is counting on the program to do the same thing for him. he is just days away from meeting his rescue dog, an irish wolfhound named bomber. >> i am excited, i know it is a

great thing. >> thank you for joining us. erin, thank you, anderson is in the philippines. he is trying to fly into the hardest hit area, tacloban city, but the process is making it hard for planes to land. the tropical system is arriving hard on the heels of the typhoon. the storm left tacloban in terrible, terrible shape, almost total devastation in much of the city. nearly a quarter of a million people lived here, now entire neighborhoods are gone. survivors are filling the streets, there are bodies, in fact, everywhere. what there is not enough is food, and crucially, drinkable water. access in and out of tacloban is very difficult. the u.s. marines are helping with round-the-clock operations. there is access to british help,

and they are teeming into the area. nobody knows the full scope of the damage from this record-setting storm. more from "ac360's" randi kaye. >> reporter: the terror began with haiyan's winds, gusts reaching 235 miles per hour, well above the threshold of a category 5 hurricane. all many can do is simply pray. as millions brace themselves against haiyan's winds and punishing rains, it is the storm surge that would cut the biggest path of destruction. walls of water up to 20 feet high, engulfing entire neighborhoods. the typhoon rages into the

night. dawn brings an eerie calm after the storm, and with it, the first glimpses of haiyan. >> get international help to come here, not tomorrow, now, this is really, really like bad, worse than hell. >> your husband? >> reporter: >> reporter: worse than hell, buildings are now mangled piles of debris and metal. families search for their loved ones. >> i have not spoken to anyone who has not lost someone, a relative or someone close to them. >> reporter: officials fear up to 10,000 people dead. the exact number made difficult to determine, not only because of the endless piles of debris that may hold bodies, buts because the philippines is made up of thousands of islands. many live in remote areas, only accessible by boat or by air.

here, on cebu island, the injured are being rescued by military chopper. but many other islands are still completely on their own. one of the hard-hit areas is here in tacloban, a massive ship hurled far inland shows the power of the typhoon. with thousands clamoring for food and water, the authorities turn their attention to the living. >> three days after the storm itself, there are still bodies by the side of the road. now, we can't show you the faces of the bodies as it is just too graphic. you can still see the terror as the wave hits on the faces of these bodies. >> reporter: an estimated 620,000 people are homeless from the storm. the government, simply overwhelmed and calling on the international community for help. the u.s. military has now taken control of the airport in

tacloban and is flying in badly needed supplies. >> it is almost the end of the world, our goal is, i must go out of this city. >> reporter: three days after what is likely the strongest storm in recorded history, its full impact just starting to be discovered. randi kay, cnn, new york. some of the most terrifying footage you just saw came from the hotel where cnn's andrew stevens was reporting. i want to show you what this was like, in this clip, the reporter became a rescuer. >> it is a relatively secure area, i think, where we are, a very substantial hotel and we are away from windows. but all around us you hear the sounds of windows breaking, the sounds of large objects falling to the floor. and under foot, it is now just a deluge. and if you look behind me, i

don't know if you can see it. the stair case is now basically a water fall. >> reporter: and then a torrent of black water began to pour into the hotel. the storm surge had begun. 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. it immediately became clear that calls were panicked. their daughter was severely disabled. we went back to get the terrified girl to safety. and cnn producer tim schwartz helped to rescue the rest of the family. >> and andrew stevens is joining us now, andrew, your images during the typhoon are amazing to have been inside what may have been one of the strongest storms ever. so give our viewers around the world a little flavor of what it

was like. >> reporter: it is mind-numbing, wolf. you're standing there, and all around is just noise. it is like you have screaming winds. and they howl through the smashed glass, the constant smashes of glass, constant sort of large objects crashes down on your head, around the roof. there is flying debris everywhere. and a funny, strange white haze, it is the only way to describe it. you look out the window when you can see if it is safe enough, and it is just -- the trees are bent horizontally. and you sit there and say okay, i have done everything i can. i am in one of the strongest buildings in this city. we are away from the windows. we are just going to hunker down in the corridors. we have a lot of things around us, we have to look after each other. i don't think any of us ever thought this could have possibly been the end. but when that storm surge came

in, we're thinking just how high is this going to get, because one of our weather chasers, a regular contributor to cnn, james reynolds said his biggest concern was the storm would generate a big, big wave. i mean, let's call it what it is. a tsunami. the water level rising so quickly. he said look, i have not seen a storm like this in my life. it is literally the perfect storm. and the way the storm surge came up, we thought we would just weather it in. and as we said in the report it didn't get much higher than getting near the first floor. but it was certainly a worrying moment. sometimes, wolf, you sort of sit there and tough that stuff out, wait for it to get better. and you hope like hell. >> you know, andrew, i know you traveled what? about 14 kilometers from the hotel you were hunkered down in, by the airport, what is it like? by all accounts the roads are just in terrible, terrible shape. >> yeah, the roads are in

terrible shape. the road -- and this is the road, with a capital t. it is the road that is going to take supplies in by truck to where it is most needed. as i said over the last 24 hours we came out yesterday. 40 kilometers, what is that? about nine or ten milemiles. took us four hours, we were getting out there and walking regularly, because the traffic just snarls. and getting relief through that road will be a painful process. the real worry for us, wolf is that we didn't see any relief trucks coming in. there was no evidence they were actually using the road. i don't know why, we haven't been able to get any answers to that. so it is choppers that are providing the lifeline at the moment. and choppers can only take so much in. and i should say right now it has just gone 10 past 9:00 in the morning. we have been up since the early morning hours. none of us here have heard the

relief chopper take off to head to the city. we have had several c-130 flights coming in, and even a couple of commercial flights in, but nothing getting here from where i am into the city and that is where the relief is needed. >> yeah, that is extremely depressing news, andrew. making your way around tacloban in the city, the devastation is clearly enormous. have you ever in all of your years seen anything like this? >> reporter: no, i haven't, wolf. and the storm devastation is just -- it is extraordinary. the images of this tsunami, the asian tsunami of 2004 are the first and probably the best comparison to make, where entire villages have been shattered. disappeared, i remember that tsunami came ashore in several countries. i was talking to our producer, tim schwartz, he said the

devastation reminds him of what happened there. you have fukushima, as well, of course. so it is on this sort of scale. what we don't know yet, like sri lanka, we just don't know how widespread and how big a disaster this is. this is a coastal strip going on for miles and miles. the storm was the outer edge, but the closer you get into the eye wall the more vicious the storms and storm surge is going to become. so we don't know. we keep asking people, what are you hearing? nobody is hearing anything. i talked to the president yesterday. he said we're sending boots out on the ground to just find out. but getting into the places, it is difficult. there are roads further down the coast to get the people out there. but not enough to get the information that is so desperately needed.

and wolf, it is all about time now. >> time is clearly critical. right now, andrew stevens, hold on for a moment. i want to bring in the man you just mentioned, the storm chaser who was with you during some of the most terrifying moments. james reynolds. the camera was rolling, showing us how it unfolded. take a look at this.

>> james reynolds is with us now, james, amazing video, we saw you in the video with your fellow storm chasers, some staff, people rescued outside your hotel. take us back to the moment when you realized you had to stop covering what was going on and start to help to save lives. >> reporter: wolf, it was a really sickening feeling. the screams, we could hear them even above the roar of the storm and the smashing of glass. instantly knew that some of them were in grave danger. we could see just the desperation of a woman trapped in the hotel. smashing through the glass with her hands to try and get out. and that was when it was really a life and death situation. my colleague, mark, went out to immediately try to go out to their assistance and ended up injuring himself. but luckily the team, my colleagues and the cnn crew

managed to find some flotation devices, a mattress, and extricate everybody from that specific hotel room. and i'm glad to report that in our hotel, nobody died. >> well, i'm glad to hear that, you say that you have covered multiple storms, and this is absolutely the worst you have been through? >> absolutely, wolf, when -- before the storm hit tacloban, my team and i were absolutely speechless about the storm, how strong it was getting. you know it was at the extreme upper level of a category 5 if it was in the atlantic. it was a very frightening thing to witness, just from a scientific point of view. this will be a case study, but obviously right now the focus is on the horrible aftermath, the desperation of people suffering right now in tacloban and for

the days to come, wolf. >> and you had to be rescued by a military chopper, how desperate was the situation on the ground as you all prepared to leave? >> reporter: the situation was starting to -- what i would say, escalate. in the immediate aftermath, i did get the sense of some people in a shell-shocked state didn't quite get the gravity of how severe it was. but in a situation like this as time goes on and people become hungrier and more desperate for water, the mood is only going to get more tense. and obviously, not being on the ground there right now myself, but even just 36 hours it was a desperate situation. there was no sense of help, a sense of a concerted military presence or any aid getting in. and from what andrew was saying it doesn't seem like much has changed in the following few days. we were very fortunate to liaise with a military official who got us on a helicopter to the airport and from there, a

military flight out. and that was miraculous that we managed to do that, and again, also beneficial that we could get our pictures out on what the situation was like in tacloban, wolf. >> james, thank you to, andrew stevens, as well. it doesn't seem that things could get worse in tacloban, but they have reported that another storm dumped rain in the around tonight, blocking relief efforts. it is also keeping anderson and his team from touching down in tacloban. their plane had to turn back and head back towards manila. anderson is joining us now from manila from the airport there. anderson i know it was tough trying to get into tacloban, but at least you're back on the ground in manila. >> reporter: yeah, it was really a dicey situation, we were actually close to tacloban on a plane, and then got the word we

had to turn back because of the approaching storm. we're told there may be a little bit of a break in the weather. we may try to get in there really before the worst of the storm that we anticipate. it is already tuesday here, but obviously, any difficulty for planes to land in tacloban, that has serious consequences for all the people on the ground who are just desperate for food and water and shelter. i want to bring in chad myers at the cnn weather center, just to get a sense of where this approaching storm is and how bad it will be for the people here. how bad is it? >> you know, anderson i think it will be over in about six hours, the back edge of the storm, the problem as it passes by. the problem with the airplane, you were in instrument flight rules. there were no instruments on the ground to send signals. so suddenly you couldn't land because the instruments are not going to work because there is nothing transponding back up to

you. you didn't have to go very far, couple of hundred miles, the signals were too low and they couldn't land for you. i do expect, though, probably in the next four or five hours, this is all over. i know we talked about an approaching storm here, but the approaching storm means leaving storm here in the next 12 hours. it will be gone, that is the good news. it will still rain for a while. doesn't matter how much or how little rain, if you're trying to recover your life with fresh food, water, and a roof over your head, any type of rain or wind is just a nightmare. >> reporter: and you know, chad, one of the things that was a blessing in this typhoon is the lack of heavy rain for a sustained period of time. but it really was the storm surge which people did not expect which has caused so much of this damage, right? >> absolutely, you know, we had storm surge, i know we were probably in the 16 to 20-foot

storm surge range. and on the western most area of the eye, the eastern most island of the philippines, i absolutely can tell there was a 30-foot surge that ran completely over that island, a lot like what happened in hurricane rita down near houston. and it just washed completely over the island, took everything with it. all the homes. and we're showing tacloban, i understand, this is an urbanized city, 200,000 people live in the city, there were another couple hundred thousand people living in other areas, we couldn't even get to them. there are worse areas, ones that we couldn't get to. this is the worst storm, the recovery will take decades. >> reporter: and i have been

getting a lot of tweets from viewers around the world saying you know, my relative is in this place, in another small town, not in tacloban, where the journalists have been able to get to the relief areas. but there are a lot of places where the journalists have not visited yet. and there is a lot of concern about the people in those areas. frankly, the bottom line is we don't know how many people have been killed by this typhoon. we simply do not have accurate numbers on that. we have a lot more to cover all throughout this hour of our live coverage from here in the philippines. when we come back, we're going to take a look at the international relief effort and the efforts of relief groups like red cross. they're having difficulty just getting to cities like tacloban. we'll be right back. americans take care of business.

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this is the tacloban convention center, we're told by the locals that a lot of people came in here to try and protect themselves from the storm. but as you can see, the water reached the second story and the locals say that anyone that was on the ground floor not expecting this storm surge simply didn't make it. welcome back, everyone, i'm randi kaye, anderson will be back with us momentarily. >> reporter: well, randi, it

really is a desperate situation here and the weather is not making things better. considering you may not have a home, you may have lost relatives, and now may have to cope with torrential rain, considering the thousands likely to have lost their home. and the weather is likely to get worse, as well. now hundreds of thousands of people are coming here to the airport to try and get out of this devastated area. there are military planes leaving. a couple of commercial planes leaving. and people are carrying everything they possibly can or everything that is left of their lives, and trying to leave the devastation behind. now, we drove just a few kilometers down the main road into the city itself. and this is obviously a crucial artery for the relief efforts. it has just been cleared. but it was shocking to us, three and a half days on there were still bodies lying on the side off ethe road.

they had not been cleared. and many residents were asking why they had not been cleared. they are trying to survive in the rubble by their homes and there are bodies outside on the road. so there is an immense amount of work to do, just for health concerns. >> paula, i'm curious about the situation and if there is looting taking place, that you have seen? >> reporter: well, we understand there was looting towards the beginning, just after this happened. obviously desperate people will do desperate things. and the grocery stores were looted. people needed food and water. the pharmacies were looted. the red cross told us they have no medicine because they can't go to the pharmacies. it is all gone. people took medicines they didn't necessarily lead. they were desperate. and of course, there was also other kinds of looting. we understand there is security personnel in the city itself. the police were setting up checkpoints along the route as people desperate for food and

water, when they saw a truck laden with food and water, they were jumping on board. and this is not a violence situation. it is the fact that people are desperate for food and water. it is not getting to people who really need it. there is a real bottle neck where people who need the supplies, even in a city with a quarter of a million people it is just not getting there yet. >> and paula, this is certainly not a new situation for you, you have covered disasters around the world. but how does this one compare? >> reporter: it was interesting, as soon as i landed and came through the airport which has just been decimated, you can see the destruction around me. it looked exactly like a tsunami had run through here. let me show you the destruction, you can see people arriving now. one man said a very interesting thing to me. he said if the government had warned us it would be like a tsunami and used the word

tsunami, we would have gotten out of town. we would have evacuated. but what they warned us, was that it would have been a storm surge, people don't understand what a storm surge can do, how deadly it can be. he said if the word "tsunami" had been used, he believed they would have evacuated. >> paula, thank you very much. now we want to talk to anderson in manila. anderson? >> reporter: yeah, randi, as paula said, so many people have been through a typhoon before, but it was the storm surge that brought the water through tacloban, and really surprised a lot of people. have you to remember when there is so much water moving at such a great speed, there is a lot of debris in the water. a lot of people died, injured from the debris hitting them in the water as they tried to stop themselves from getting swept away. i want to bring in richard gordon, chairman and ceo through

red cross. richard, the difficulties of getting aid to people in tacloban right now, what is the hardest part for you? >> the heavy lifting of goods that are needed like a lot of food. water, filtration plants, trucks, this heavy, heavy going -- it is hard going. and we're almost there, but hopefully we'll make it by today. we started two nights ago. hopefully we'll be there. we came by land from manila. and another group is out in the other province on its way there. it will carry 25,000 food parcels to our people. >> reporter: i understand that one of your trucks with aid actually had to turn around because of security concerns. what happened? >> that is correct. they were stopped on the bridge. the moment you stop right now people are going to mill around. any helicopter, any truck that stops or lands are going to be surrounded by people who are in need. and that is why we have to have

strong measures by the authorities to ensure that the humanitarian services and goods are delivered to the area they would be very much needed. and it would be really great if they can move faster. >> reporter: how concerned are you about the rain that is coming today, just adding to people's misery there? >> we are very concerned, because the land may be saturated with water, and you could have landslides. nonetheless, you have made a very good point about storm surges, because they have to understand what it is all about. it is not a tsunami, but we need to know that any typhoon could turn for the worse and have landslides or floods. so we're very concerned about that. in fact, i'm trying to decide if we can still go through in spite of that typhoon.

>> reporter: and richard, in terms of people wanting to donate or help, what kind of things does the red cross need most? is it simply a matter of money? >> well, it is easier if it is money. but you know, if they want to donate, we'll take it in kind. but there is always you know, the sorting it out and bringing it over there. they could be better off bringing it in cebu, we have a red cross warehouse in cebu, but they could find an organization, redcross.org would be a very good website to do so. >> reporter: richard gordon, i know you're busy. i appreciate the time you took to talk with us. no doubt we'll check with you throughout the coming days. we'll take a quick break. when we come back we'll talk to the mayor of tacloban and find out about the situation as the new storm approaches. we'll be right back. peace of mind is important when you're running a successful business.

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and welcome back to our live coverage here of typhoon haiyan. i'm anderson cooper reporting live from manila. we're supposed to be in tacloban for this broadcast. but our plane had to turn around at the last minute due to some severe weather that moved into the area. so we're broadcasting from the airport here in manila. we're just now starting to get a lot of the details of how people actually survived this storm. there is some remarkable stories. the mayor of tacloban joins me

now. and frankly, mr. mayor, from everything i have heard you are very lucky to be alive. i understand you at one point had to punch holes and climb onto the roof of your house. what happened? >> oh, actually, it was not the house. it was beside my house. there was a big ball room. and the ceiling was about 20 feet high. and the next thing we knew that we were just -- when the waves came in, it just brought us up. and our -- we had no choice but to punch a hole in the ceiling. and hide between the ceiling and the roof. and the waves were breaking in the roof. the place was a resort, and it is like a ball room. so it is a huge roof. a tall roof. and the waves just came so fast. and -- but worse than that was the wind, the wind was just so strong that the visibility was about ten or 15 feet.

just no way you could even look because it was so strong that it practically pulled out your eyes. it was the first time we ever experienced that. you couldn't see anything. and there was just howling winds. >> reporter: in terms of how your city is right now, there have been -- estimates of different death tolls. explain -- do you have any sense of fatalities in your city, and people who are wounded? do you have any numbers? >> well, the numbers that we've seen, physically that we have retrieved it about 250 bodies already. but we can now only search more with -- with -- with some smell. you know, with the smell. because a lot of bodies were mixed up with all the rubble. and all the debris. and we are getting reports also

of some houses that were buried. and we see some bodies floating. and these are the things that we're trying -- the stuff that you're trying to do to retrieve right now. but accessibility is a problem in some areas, because debris is scattered all over and it is very difficult to get into some of these places. >> reporter: what are the greatest needs of people there in tacloban right now? food, water, shelter? >> yes, food, water and shelter are the greatest needs right now. earlier, it was -- because tacloban is a city written it is by practice that every time there is a storm in the region or in the area they take shelter in tacloban city. and when this thing happened, they were all stranded in tacloban city. but the first day we were able to open the roads. and the only accessibility was

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through volunteers that we were able to recover many bodies and we are able to do many rescue. >> all right, mayor, thank you very much. thank you very much for your time this evening. we certainly hope that you get what you need there in tacloban. we will return to anderson as soon as we can there in manila. meanwhile, the massive effort in the philippines to rescue and get the food and water to those that need it continues. we will speak to a woman coming up next who is searching desperately for her parents there. we'll find out what she knows next. i'm beth... and i'm michelle. and we own the paper cottage. it's a stationery and gifts store. anything we purchase

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accessibility, accessibil . welcome back, i'm anderson cooper, reporting live. the sound you hear is a helicopter taking off about 60 feet from me. i'm at the hangar at manila airport. we were headed for tacloban earlier, we had to turn around due to bad weather in the area. we're talking about -- it was very close to the airport here, in manila. i want to bring in a woman whose parent parents live in tacloban. her parents live in the philippines.

jacqueline, you first talked -- >> i have not been able to hear from my parents personally. and our family has not actually heard from them personally. but we have word that we -- that they found them. they were in tacloban city during the whole storm. and i just got an update that my parents made it to another town, that they just left tacloban somehow to get to another town because of the smell. and their health issues. >> and jacqueline, this is randi kaye in new york, i'm going to try to pick this up as we establish our communication with anderson in manila. but your biggest concern is about your mother's health. what was it about her health? >> yes, a few days before they left to go to the philippines, they left chicago first. but a few days before that, she had to go to the hospital, she has copd.

and also had had some sort of an infection, my concern is she is not able to walk around, get around on her own without a wheelchair. there is concern about other asthma. one of the worries is because of her medications, she needed to get her breathing treatments. and with the lights out, we don't know the situation, if she is okay or not. >> so you and your sisters, from what i understand they're trying to get them out and get them back to the states. how do you plan to do that? >> right now, we don't know. we have been trying to contact -- plastering news all over facebook. and twitter. and whatever family and friends we have. we just are trying to find a way to get them to a place where they can fly out from either cebu or to manila. i have a sister that has flown to manila. her plan originally was to stay

in attatacloban for the next si months, but with all this that happened we're trying to get my parents out somehow, we don't know yet. >> so tell me about this community that you know and that you love. you attended grade school there in tacloban. you recently returned for your mother's birthday. so help us understand tacloban. >> yeah, when i was there, i lived there in 1992 and 93, first and second grade. and first, it was very foreign for me, because i was just a child. but i have grown to love that place. my family is there. my cousins are there. it just seemed like home. i went to school there. my sister graduated from high school there. at first -- it is definitely not like manila, not as developed asthas manila, but when i went back there the past two years, the technology has developed. the cell phone usage is high,

the establishment is growing. it just seemed like it was really growing. >> keep us posted, please, jacqueline. all right, let's get back to anderson in manila. anderson? >> reporter: hey, randi, obviously it is difficult broadcasting under these services so i appreciate you stepping in every time our signal goes down. we want to check on areas the size of tacloban, tacloban, as everybody knows by now is a city of some 200,000 people. and a lot of other region, towns, we'll check with our correspondent in cebu to find out how the situation is there. we'll be right back.

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centurylink. your link to what's next. welcome back to our continuing coverage of haiyan, in manila, we have been focusing a lot on tacloban, actual death toll, we don't have the number that we can give you that we can accurately tell how many people have passed away. the hospital in that city has been overwhelmed. for a time they were not even able to accept new patients, giving basic first aid to

people, trying to get as many people as they could out of there. we also have a correspondent in cebu, which is about a 30-minute flight from here. there are a lot of people still missing. here is some of what you said. >> reporter: this air field in cebu has become the staging ground for the country's biggest relief operation. c-130 hercules flying survivors, all shell-shocked by what they saw. >> i can't say anything yet, i am still shocked. >> a lot of our friends are dead, some of our family members are dead. so it is really devastating. >> reporter: as the death toll grows by the day, families desperately wait for news of their loved ones. >> i am the only survivor of the family, and i want to know if they are still alive. >> reporter: so many people frankly just do not have the

information. communication is spotty, at best. and a lot of areas have not even been gotten into by relief agencies, and the government. anna coran joining us now. >> reporter: well, anderson, the relief operation happening now, the largest plane, a russian plane just landed from china, pack-filled with aid. of course, we know that the people on the ground in the disaster zones desperately need food, clean water, medical supplies and shelter. now, several c-130 hercules planes have also landed there to pick up aid and to take it to the areas, as well. obviously, the weather is a real problem, you have experienced it yourself. but certainly here, it has been raining. and that could slow down the

operation. it is certainly going to help the relief efforts, but also it will cause misery on the ground, anderson. >> reporter: in terms of you know, you talked to a whom who is still searching for her family members. in terms of actually recovery efforts, is there heavy equipment on the ground, or how are people actually you know, searching through rubble? >> reporter: yes, look t rk, loe moment, i think the focus is on getting them aids and supplies. we were going into the fifth day since the typhoon hit the islands. yesterday, the military went to northern cebu into some really remote islands. and they were picking up the wounded, the injured, ferrying them back, people with broken bones and internal injuries. and this was just a handful.

as we flew back to cebu, there were people on their homes, properties, waving frantically into the air. but the problem, anderson, is logistics, getting the help out to the people who so desperately need it. >> still so much work to be done in the days ahead. anne, appreciate your reporting, stay safe. we'll take a break from our coverage from the philippines. we'll be right back. mine was earned orbiting the moon in 1971.

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welcome back, i'm anderson cooper reporting live from manila. we'll be back an hour from now, another edition of "ac360" on the latest on the recovery efforts happening in places large and small in the islands in the philippines, particularly, the islands, tacloban and cebu, and other outlying communities that they have not even gotten to yet. still a lot of people, still suffering, we'll have more on that tonight. piers morgan joins me. obviously, yes, you're about 50