are much bigger than anything america has and there is a slew on towers that will rank higher than anything in the u.s. we're getting bumped in. two press confraszs, 25 judges to decide which u.s. city is number four, for now. number four, for now. ac starts now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good evening everyone. i'm anderson cooper like from tacloban airport in the philippines are five days after typhoon haiyan, desperation set in. there is little food, little water and there are many, many people in need. many people are trying to get out of here, out of the airport. there are scenes of people lining up all around me. they have been lining up here all night long and just wait at the airport. they frankly have nowhere else to go because out there on the other side of the camera, is what remains of tacloban and it is not a pretty sight. dead bodies laying out near the

wreckage of people's homes, people sleeping out in the streets with little food, little water, and few answers, frankly, about the relief effort. we're going to try to get answers over the course of the next hour. i just want to bring you up to date on what that we have seen in the last 24 hours. it's been five days since super typhoon haiyan sammed sloo the philippines but after that time there is no official death toll, no concerted effort to retrieve the bodies of those who died. the cleanup in some badly hit areas has barely started, if it started at all. everywhere you go, there are pleas for help. >> everything is gone. our houses, our -- everything. there is nothing to eat. there is nothing to drink. >> we need more people to help, to help the current situation. >> reporter: help is on the way.

250 u.s. service members are on the ground in the philippines and two more ships are on the way. but right now, there simply isn't enough aid and what aid there is isn't getting out to those who need it most. day after day, thousands come to tacloban airport hoping for a ride out, praying they can escape the devastation, 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 is missing is my eldest daughter. i hope she's alive and we're hoping. >> reporter: this woman cries for her mother who is still missing. >> translator: i'm still here in tacloban she says, i'm still alive. makeshift shelters for those left behind have spung up all over the area. people sleeping wherever they

can, despite to find a dry, safe stop. people around here have no place to go. a lot of them who may have evacuated before the storm are back in what used to be their homes. there is a makeshift shack somebody 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 for owners who may never return. this makeshift coffin has a piece of rock with the name of a baby whose been placed inside. marian p. alcain. she was one year old. the wounded and sick wait for treatment and the hospital has no electricity and few supplies. >> we are admitting them as much as we can because we cannot refuse them. >> reporter: it's already too late for this young mother cradling her dead child in her

arms. i'm going crazy she says, i want to go back home. home is not an option for her. it's not an option for many in this broken city. and nick paton walsh joins me now. nick, in terms of the relief effort, what are you seeing? when you go out in these neighborhoods, i don't see much of an effort. >> every morning you see planes coming in and limited in capacity. an effort by the philippine military chopping down a tree and rearranging trash here. we seen the scale of destruction a monumental challenge ahead and the issue for many people in the next coming days, they will match that with the level of aid. we haven't seen food or heavy machinery or presence there. >> you spent time recently or last night just kind of outside during the night to see what it was like. >> almost like a ghost town.

night causes much devastation not to be visible but you're still left with people coming to terms in their quiet confined sb spaces with the real loss. >> let's take a look. >> some of tacloban's misery but locals must huddle around what is left. the smell of death heavy, bodies unfound and they even hunt for them at night. a dog led them to this spot where he watched them dig up his son and just now his daughter. as the typhoon picked up, she suddenly stopped answering his worried text messages. this is not her home here? >> no. >> it's over there? >> no, it's over there. >> so the wind carried her? >> the flood and the wind. >> their mother is still buried somewhere here. >> how will you rebuild yourself?

>> just by working and look for living. >> the debris, police check points, burning tires, signs security fierce and the aid mission isn't moving yet. people left turning to the church for physical shelter, not spiritu spiritual counting those lost. >> granddaughter and second daughter. >> have you found the bodies? >> my daughter is missing. not yet it's almost since november 8th until now. their bodies gone. >> one repeated complaint, where is their government? it looks like the end of the world because for so many here, it was. >> i want to talk about the relief efforts going on with dan from usa id and jeff from the

world food program wfp. in terms of wfp, what are you doing to distribute food? >> we're working with dswd. we started distributing food that was here already in town that we acquired yesterday. they are distributing in the city and around. that distribution is scaling up today. >> so when you distribute it, how do you go about doing it? >> forming family packs at this moment and being put on to pfrom here we expect to scale u. >> when do you hope to sort of actually make a big inprint, a big impact? >> the food acquired yesterday is a big start. there is more on the way. we have high energy biscuits coming in. it will take awhile but the first ones arrive today. right now 2,500 tons of rice is a nice start.

>> the roads are impassable in a lot of places. >> the roads are opening up now and we have trucks coming from manila to support the effort. >> how about for usa id? >> we're working in response efforts so prioritizing water, food, high gene and sanitation and bringing in a massive department of defense airlift to make as you were assistance gets to communities. >> are you getting stuff to the airport and it's up to local authorities to distribute or are you involved in the distribution? >> we're working with the government of the philippines and supporting agencies like the world food program to rapidly increase their capacity here to make sure needed equipment gets out. >> when do you hope to see stuff going out to people? >> we've seen stuff going to people already. some c 130s landed and we moved to the hardest hit area.

today we're bringing in 20,000 shelter kits, hygiene kits. >> what is in a shelter kit? people have no place to sleep. they are sleeping under tin outside. what does a shelter kit have? >> immediately they will be provided with plastic sheeting. that's key with the continued rainfall to keep the water off them. until we can fill the pipeline, they will be using materials that they are able to get to build a frame but as you've seen in most areas, there is wood, nails, rope. right now we're mostly concerned with getting that sheeting over their head while the additional resources are brought to bear. >> how does this compare to other operations? >> this is enormous. we have priorities to stabilize at least three urban population and then we move into the coastal areas.

>> because when you look around, everything is gone. >> yes, sir, this -- although not as wide spread as could have been, the areas the typhoon went through are completely destroyed. infrastructures, cools, hospitals, gone. to restore logistic l access to move commodities. >> gad you glad you guys are he. thank you for your hard work. when we come back, we'll talk to a member of the u.s. air force to find out what they are doing on the ground. there is a big up tick in u.s. involvement in the last 24 hours. we'll talk to him ahead. we'll be right back. la's known definitely for its traffic, congestion, for the smog.

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this rain is the last thing people here need. it's been raining on and off throughout the day and adds to the misery of this place. just about everywhere you go you find people searching for their lost loved ones. there is a man down there who is cooking who pointed us to the body of his wife underneath that sheet. there's another person whose died that's been wrapped up in just some clothes, some sacks

and left out. the smell in this whole area really is very -- is very strong. there -- there is no way to know how many people have died in this area, but you can smell it in the air. it's everywhere. that's just a few blocks from where i'm standing. you find bodies still here all over the place. there's a few people actually collecting -- there is very little organization on terms of the philippines' side and that's a frustrating thing for people here. they don't -- their not getting information. they are not getting food. they are not getting water and their needs are great. they really have nothing. everything has been wiped out. i want to bring in barbara starr because we're seeing an increase effort by the united states here on the ground and an increased promised effort. barbara, i believe you got off the phone with general kennedy who is frustrated.

what are you hearing? >> that's right, anderson. in the next several hours he's head in your direction, the effort to get the air field up and running. they expect to have nighttime operations beginning this evening your time in tacloban, that of course, as you know better than anybody is going to be a huge help. the next big step, at least two amphibious warships are on the way from japan that will bring specialized capability, tracked vehicles, vehicles with like tank treads on them that can move through the remote areas, go through the debris and get sup pipes out to the distribution points in the most hard hit areas. there will also be more helicopters on board the ships and more ability for water purr fa case. this puts a total in the next couple days of seven u.s. military ships in the area that will have the ability to deliver

aid by air, by land, water purification and supplies and getting the airport open around the clock will significantly increase they hope the number of flights. general kennedy telling me he's very frustrated right now, that was certainly his view at the moment. he needs a certain type of aid. the world community is responding, as it always does in these situations, but as the u.s. commander on the ground he needs specific help and says what his priorities are are nothing fancy. he wants shelters for people. he wants to get people off the streets and into shelters. more water, more food, more medical help, although he believes the medical facilities in the immediate area are pretty good at this point. but anderson, this isn't so nice to talk about on tv, sanitation. what general kennedy was telling

me is there are countries that want to send portable toilets. it will take a long time to get enough there and he doesn't need that kind of fancy equipment. he is looking at trying to burn sewage just to get as much done as he possibly can, anderson? >> you know, bar bbara on the medical front, you can pass it along. i've talked to a lot of people. there is three local hospitals that aren't accepting patients. supplies.t have electricity and the only place they can go is right over there. it used to be a small clinic and it's over run with patients. i talked to two doctors there. they say they are overwhelmed and don't have enough doctors and don't have enough supplies and water and food at that clinic to deal with all the people they are seeing coming to them. there are people, an old man died there last night, three people have given birth there.

they are dealing with all injuries. there are a lot of needs that and that's just here at the airport. i want to bring in captain john sh shamous. you're here with the air force, what is your job. >> i'm here with the small combat controllers and rescuers and our primary job is to help the them reestablish the air field and make sure it's efficient 24 hours a day. >> how long will that take and what does that require? >> for example, yesterday we arrived and the lights on the runway weren't working. we had the ability to set up lights. as of yesterday, the lights are working again but the next question is can we do night operations. what we bring to the fight -- or effort is assist in 24 hour operations, 12 hours of night operations. >> are you hoping -- can you put a time frame on when you think you'll get it up and run sng. >> tonight we're operational.

using our capabilities to make sure it's running efficiently. starting tonight our guy wills control aircraft and special operations and air base japan to bring in more supplies and evacuation ref gees. >> that will be awesome. that's a huge thing. yesterday with the bad weather, it was hard to get planes in. you have medical assessment capabilities. >> we have medical, personnel recovery, disaster response. they can provide aid up to trama level, basic get them -- sustain them to a level. >> appreciate your efforts. thank you. the u.s. air force. it really is ramping up of the efforts by the united states here and hopefully once this airport is up and running, within 24 hours but i got to tell you the scene here at the airport is really desperate. there are right now, there are hundreds of people here. if you just look, they are all -- these people are all just waiting, people just come here to the airport hoping maybe to

get on a philippine air force c 130 that will take them somewhere else or come here because they have nowhere else to go. there is at least a roof over their head but the facilities here, it's over run. it's really -- it is a very chaotic situation here. if the airport can get under control, that could be a good base of operations to move forward. when we come back, i'll show you what we saw when we went out into the neighborhoods a few hours ago. we'll be right back. ♪

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and welcome back. i'm anderson cooper. we're live here in tacloban, probably the hardest hit area we know about there is still a lot of areas we don't know about in the southern philippines. this is the airport where people are just flocking to. people just hundreds of people, thousands of people come here, have have been coming here, streaming here for days now and they spend all day here often all night here. i was here at 2:00 a.m. walking through, there were no lights and people are just sitting. they don't -- they have no place to sleep, but they have nowhere to go. they bring whatever possessions they can. a lot of them are hoping to get

on a c-130, hoping the philippine military will take them to manila if they are injured and have family members they can be cared for. there is no guarantees for a lot of people on the lines to get an the c-130s is long. this is the first time philippine military personnel are now starting to clean up the area around the airport. this is the first time we're actually seeing this. that is i suppose a sign of progress. this is five days since the typhoon, and this is the first real tangible sign of a cleanup of the airport area that we're seeing as we just heard from captain john shamus from the air force. they hope -- they are planning, the u.s. military is planning to get the air field up and running on a 24-hour basis by tonight. that would be the first time, that would be a big help in terms of getting relief in here. then the concern is and the difficulty is getting it from the airport out to some of these areas, even getting it a few

blocks, though, would be a huge improvement because as you're about to see, a couple blocks from here, there is just nothing but misery. in tacloban, the misery is beyond meaning. this is your home? >> yes, this is my house. >> the first, the first she says our house was one of the first to come down. she sought shelter from the storm surge in this bus with her husband and six children. she survived, they were swept away. >> and has anyone come to help you? >> no. 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? yea >> yeah, in the street. anywhere. i don't know where i go. >> in tacloban, there isn't anyplace to go. martinez is living in a make-shift shelter. his daughter and wife are covered with sacks nearby. i really want someone to collect their bodies he says. i want to know where they are taken so then i can light a candle for them. he cooks rice and noodles for his neighbors. one of the men wants to call his mother in manila. he's desperate to tell her he and his daughter survived, though his wife and two other children are dead. we dial her number on our satellite phone. >> they are gone, they are all gone he says.

mom, mama. i don't know why this happened to me. you won't find answers here in tacloban, you'll only find loss, you'll only find misery with so little help that is just not going away. just about everybody you meet in the neighborhoods around here seems to have lost somebody or is searching for somebody. i met more and more -- even after shooting that piece we met another woman searching for three of her children. she also -- her husband is also dead. then we saw a fire department, a local fire department which was picking up bodies, which was one of the few groups that we saw actually removing bodies. but there are a lot of people out there and that is why there

isn't an accurate count how many people lose their lives here because there is no effort to retrieve those who have died, many of them, they are still out there laying where they fell. i want to bring in an american missionary i talked to just before we went on air by the name of john win. he's an american missionary who lives here in tacloban who really escaped the storm surge with his wife. i want to warn you the audio in this interview, there was a c-130 coming in so it's a little loud, but stick with it. so john, explain what happened to you during the storm. >> the short of it was, we were in our house expecting strong wind and rain but just a short time after the typhoon started, we watched a couple trees fall in the yard and then i noticed under the front door this black wanter began to come in rather strong current, and then i

looked out the window seal and by the time i comp prehenlded what i saw, the water had almost risen to the water seal, quite high coming in the door quite fast and at that time i realize that we were in some serious trouble. >> how fast was the water rising? >> i wish i could rate it. i would say we -- we were on the entertainment ceiling -- i'm sorry, entertainment center. we were in the ceiling i would say in less than -- i'm going to -- of course, i could be wrong but it seemed to me to be about maximum two or three minutes. maximum and that's about the level of water in our house was around 8 feet probably. >> you finally got out of tacloban. when did you finally leave? >> we finally left -- we landed here yesterday about 12:30 or so noontime. >> what do you make of the relief effort you've been seeing

that you were able to see here? >> well, i really did not -- the relief effort that i saw was people doing whatever they could do on their own to get food. everything has been lewded as far as i know. and it's not because people are bad people, it's because people need food, they need water. they are trying to take care of their families, and it seems like at the time when i was there, now it could have changed drastically since i left, but when we were there, every day we had a network of people in our church, every day going out trying to find water, rice, trying to find any type of food, medicines they could find. there was no communication. it seemed to regular people unless they would go to certain locations like the airport or city hall. they were having a very hard time finding things. i hope that -- my purpose of doing interviews is just tell

everybody that will listen that when i left, they needed help and they needed help now. not in a few days, not in a few hours, they needed it now and they needed a lot of it. >> that's certainly still the case. i appreciate you taking the time to talk to us, thank you. >> thank you. and certainly still the case at this difficult hour. when we come back, we'll show you the children affected by this storm. [ tires screech ] ♪ [ male announcer ] 1.21 gigawatts. today, that's easy. ge is revolutionizing power. supercharging turbines with advanced hardware and innovative software. using data predictively to help power entire cities. so the turbines of today... will power us all... into the future.

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we don't have home, homes and we have nothing to eat. we really need help now. i hope you are there watching and you see us in tv. we really need the help because our children don't have rice, no milk, no water, no clean water,

and they have fevers. >> the people here in tacloban have great dignity and deserve more than what they have gotten, frankly, and it's -- it's stunning when you go out into neighborhoods and you talk to people and you find mothers who are all alone searching for their dead children and have had no help and have had no official help, have had nobody other than other neighbors trying to help them find their kids. paula m pau pau paula is joining us. have you seen an effort? impact here? there are flights coming in and people working hard but is it getting out there? >> it certainly is not organized. it's obviously going somewhere but just a drop in the ocean compared to what is needed. we're five days on and people coming to me talking are saying i want food, water why the dead bodies -- >> five days on. >> incredible and they have been

there for five days and this is where people are trying to live in the rubbles of their home. >> family members are living next to their dead children and dead husbands, their dead wives. >> you look around here. most people who were here are holding a child or a baby, not only are they concerned about the fact they can't get food and water but they are concerned about the fact, security concerns are more intense. so they are despite to get out. it's a massive evacuation, an attempt and of course, the ones that want out are those with small children. >> the line to get out, i mean, is -- you can't see it from here. you may be able to see umbrellas behind me. it stretches for hundreds of yards, i'm told, right now out in the sun. people just line up and they are just there all day long for a hand full of flights out, the chance to get out because that's really the only option because it's not as if they are able to shelter someplace and get food and get water. there is just nothing to be had right now. >> exactly.

i spoke to one woman moments ago and she said it's a miracle i survived the typhoon and my baby survived she literally reached out and grabbed her baby and saved her baby and said am i going to survive this? am i going to survive the airport? >> so you've been looking at affected kids. >> there is one heart warming story but unfortunately, not all of it is. 11 month old anthony is businessfully unaware how lucky he is to be alive. she sat her son on her head to keep him above water and she held on. >> all i hear is people cry, many people crying, many people say help, help. >> she lost her husband and many other relatives. >> no, i don't know where we go. the most important thing, we can

survive. it's very traumatic. it's very hard. >> thousands are trying to take their children away from the devastation and the worsening security situation. she had twin boys three weeks ago, she's too terrified to stay. >> we wake up and there is some people inside our house, looters and they can harm my children and us, as well. >> but in the mist of this pain, there was one ray of hope in this makeshift hospital. >> a baby girl was born monday in the most challenging of circumstances. her mother emily was brought in by neighbors. pregnant women are currently evacuateed to give birth but she was too close. >> the baby came out and cried right away. there wasn't any problems. and there was no bleeding, so it was a perfect delivery in a very i'm perfect environment. >> once the baby was born the

entire hospital applauded, bringing relief in the mist of such intense human suffering. >> and there have been, i think, three births in that makeshift hospital, which is -- this area is the only -- is the only hospital. you talked to somebody who said that they didn't know what a storm surge was. they didn't know to evacuate it. >> yeah, this sent a chill for me, it really did. this man said why didn't they call ate tsunami. if the government mentioned it would have been like a tsunami, we would have evacuated. >> they didn't know the surge of water would come through, that's what caused so many deaths. >> high tide or waves, if the word tsunami was mentioned so many more people would evacuate and be alive today. we'll take a quick break and be joined by correspondents. we'll be back in just a moment. i'm beth...

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this is one of the few houses that are still standing, pretty solidly build, one of the houses made out of concrete, seems to have survived the storm. but you just get a sense the power of the storm, look, here is a jeep that's been slammed into the house and a track

lifted up from somewhere and put on top of the jeep and the smell of rotting -- the smell of decay is everywhere around here. that's a cow, that's a dead cow. and it looks like behind it, there is the body of a person covered in a green cloth. that's not an uncommon site here unfortunately, still five days into this storm. our andrew stevens went out with the mayor of tacloban, here is what he saw. >> in tack lloban city, they ar calling him the ghost. many people here thought the city's mayor 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 taken 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 high ends struck. >> another concrete wall there. >> the surge devastated the building, 6-inch-thick concrete walls were smashed like tissue paper he says. >> suddenly boom, the door blank. blasted open, water gushed in. >> as the waters rose, seven took their chances outside while the mayor and the rest climbed into the ceiling space. >> the water was going up. so we had to go all the way in there where we climbed all the way up here -- no, we had to move over there. >> and how high did the water go? >> almost to the ceiling here. >> and there they stayed until

it was safe. >> because -- >> all 14 survived, but how when so many perished around them? >> time like that you just pray, and then you have to really think before you do something, can you do it. you have to know your capabilities. >> but it wasn't over yet. he still had to find whether his family had survived in another house about a mile away. they had. >> my wife kept saying i told you it's going to come. i told you it's going to come, and i was the first one there. >> it was an extraordinary escape but back in the car he tells me so many more would have survived if there had been a simple change in the warnings his town was given. >> we have done drills on tsunami and when we do drills, almost about 80% of them really get out.

>> and andrew stevens joins me with paula and nick paton walsh. you've been here during the storm and throughout. how frustrated are you by the relief effort here? have you seen much of a relief effort? >> increasingly frustrated and obviously not just me, anderson. you walk around downtown tacloban and there is piles of rotting garbage and carcasses of animals and no real evidence of organized recovery, organized relief going on. i saw a van handing out packages of three-day relief. that was perhaps for 50 people. there are tens of thousands of people effected. they are walking up to us and saying we have no food. we need water. we need help. so at the moment, the frustration levels down there are extraordinary high and i don't sense they are still really getting a grip on meeting this problem as it should be met. >> richard brandon was quoted on

npr today saying if haiti is a ten, the philippines is an 11 in terms of difficulty. everything has been destroyed here. there is very little now to work with. >> it's demolition, not really construction. they have to go in and clear vast amounts of the town to get rid of dead bodies. here is an airport with military attention because the media attention is here. all we saw today is dozens of people trying to leave. there is nothing left in the town there. that the the issue they have to deal with, what do you do with the people that used to live here now? can you provide them back where they used to live? >> of course, the problem they have with the recovery efforts, it's very easy to criticize but of course, the first responders who usually deal with these typhoons are the victims here. they have warehouses filled with goods they usually use for typhoons that are based around here. they are gone, destroyed. they are basically starting from scratch.

>> the local police force, a lot of them, according to the mayor, a lot of them didn't show up in the wake of this obviously. they had their own issues to worry about. their own families to take care of. it's hard -- i don't think pictures as many different pictures as we take it's really hard to get in that small little camera lens and just the scope of the devastation, even though it's not as big as a tsunami in 2004 and as we saw in sri lanka, in this area it's total. >> complete particularly down on the waterfront area where a lot of towns are, that's absolutely flattened and the question, the real question here is how many people actually heeded advice of the authorities to get out, to evacuate before this hit? i heard a lot of stories about people sending out their wives and children and staying back at the house to guard the property from whatever. a lot of people going back before the storm, anderson.

if you look at the devastation down there, it will take a long time to find out what is under that rubble and consider this was a 600 kill lom per eye storm, the eye passed 10 kilometers to the south, kevin station right down this coast. >> when we were covering the tsunami in japan just a few years ago, i remember on day one or day two there were members of the japanese and national defense force out -- even though they didn't have heavy earth moving equipment, they were out with sticks trying to find survivors and those lost. i haven't seen a large philippine military presence out in these areas. we seen it here in the airport and seen they are cleaning up now parts of the airport, which is certainly a good start, but have you seen that in your time out in the field? >> no, i mean, the search and rescue operation doesn't even appear to have got started as far as i can see. i've spoken to officials and the president and he said we're

focussing on the living. the search and rescue never seem to materialize. in japan you barely saw a dead body after day two because they were going through and trying to retrieve bodies and find people alive and they did find people still alive. here, i haven't -- i don't know about you -- >> i haven't seen any dogs searching, any people. >> i've seen two dogs, in five days, two dogs. >> locals simply trying to fix the problems then selfs. the question is how many people lost their lives. we've gone from 10,000 to 2500. the smell as you-all know is remarkably overpowering and so much of it, gives you a real sense how bad the devastation could be. >> this whole relief story is about the victims, about what happens to them over the next week or so. can they hold out? we're getting stories of looting for three or four days now. looting is a bit of a mute point for people trying to stay alive. the military presence serves a

purpose. it gives the sense of there is authority. you can't have a town that is lawless and people think they can do and have to do what they want. the military is there and makes a difference but without aid it doesn't matter. >> and most people i talk to would like to see more military out there, you know, on their blocks, helping out, searching for their loved ones because there are mothers searching for children and it's a sickening sight to see on day five of this. appreciate all your reporting. it's been remarkable work. that's it for us. hope you join us an hour from now. another edition of "ac 360" -- we actually have more. i'm a little tired. i'm very tired. we'll be right back after this block. u different is what makes us different. we take the time to get to know you and your unique health needs. then we help create a personalized healthcare experience that works for you. and you. and you.

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