we don't know what we have done. i just finished a history on vietnam. anderson cooper now reports live from the philippines. good evening, everyone. i'm anderson cooper from the philippines, five days after the typhoon haiyan set in. this is a place where there is little food, little water, and there are many, many people in need. many people are trying to get out of here, getting out of the airport. there are scenes of people lining up, they've been lining up all night long. they wait in 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 people sleeping out in the street. it's been five days since super typhoon haiyan slammed into the philippines, but there's been no concerted effort to retrieve the body the of those who died. the cleanup in some badly hit areas has barely started. everywhere you go, there are pleas for help. >> everything's gone. there's nothing to eat. there's nothing to drink. >> we need more people to help. >> reporter: help is on the way.

u.s. service members are on the ground and ships are on the way. but right now there 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, 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 ones missing is my eldest daughter. i hope she's alive. >> reporter: this woman cries for her mother who's still missing. >> i'm still here in tacloban, she says. i'm still alive. >> reporter: makeshift shelters for those alive have sprung up all over the area. people sleeping wherever they

can, desperate to find a dry, safe spot. people around here just have no place else to go. a lot of them who may have evacuated are now back. and what used to be their homes is a makeshift shack somebody's constructed over there. they tried to collect all the things they could salvage, but it's not much. in many places not much is left but rubble. and the sound of pets waiting for owners who may never return. this makeshift coffin has a piece of a rock with a name of a baby placed inside. she was only one year and three months old. at this hospital in tacloban, the wound and sec wait for treatment, but 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 walsh joins me now. in terms of the relief effort, what are you seeing? i haven't seen much of a relief effort. >> every morning you see this wave of planes coming in. but they're limited in capacity as to what they can do. there's an effort by the military rearranging some of the trash here. but we see the scale of the destruction, quite a monumental challenge ahead. and the real issue for many people in the next coming days, we simply haven't seen food or heavy machinery or any presence here to turn this place around. >> you spent time recently or last night kind of outside during the night to see what it was like. >> almost like a ghost town. of course night causes much

devastation not to be visible. people are left coming to terms in their own quiet spaces that they've seen around them. >> reporter: locals must now huddle around what little they have left. the smell of death weighing heavy. so many bodies still unfound. they even hunt for them at night. a dog has led them to this spot where a son was dug up and now his daughter. as the typhoon picked up, he stopped answering his worried text messages. this isn't her home? >> no. >> reporter: so the wind carried her? >> the flood and the wind. >> reporter: their mother is still buried somewhere here. how will you rebuild? yourself? >> work for a, look for the

living. >> reporter: debris, police checkpoints, burning tires. people left here turning to the church for physical shelter, not spiritual solace. >> reporter: have you found the bodies? >> not yet. almost since november 8th until now. their bodies gone. >> reporter: one repeated complaint -- where is their government? it looks luike the end of the world because for so many here, it was. >> reporter: i want to talk about the relief efforts going

on. in terms of wfp, what are you doing in terms of distributing food? >> we're working with the department of social welfare. we've started distributing food that was here already in town that we acquired yesterday. they're distributing it in the city. that distribution is scaling up today. >> how do you go about doing tha that. >> they are forming family packs and distributing it. >> when do you hope to sort of actually make a big imprint, to make a big impact here? >> the food that was acquired here yesterday is a good start. it's about 2,500 metric tons. we have biscuits coming in. meanwhile, the 2,500 ton it s o

rice is a good start. every transport vehicle you see has been affected bit storm. we have trucks coming from cebu and ma nnila to help. >> we are working to priorityize water, food. and we're trying to make sure needed assistance gets to communities as soon as possible. >> are you getting stuff to the airport and it's up to local authorities to des tribt it? >> we are supporting agencies like the world food program to rapidly increase their capacity here in the last mile to make sure needed equipment gets out. >> when do you hope to see stuff really going out to people? >> we've seen things going out to communities already. yesterday some marine c-130s landed. and we were able to move things

toward the hardest hit area. we are bringing in shelter kits, hygieigygiene kits and anything government asks us. >> you talk about a shelter kit? what does it have? >> need immediately, they'll be provided with plastic sheeting to keep the rainfall off of them. until we're able to fill the logistical pipeline. right now we're mostly concerned with getting that sheeting over their head. >> how does this compare to other operations you've worked on? >> this is enormous. and we have to move into the coastal areas with urgency, almost immediately. >> when you look around, everything here is gone.

>> yes, sir. this, although not as widespread as it could have been, the areas that the typhoon did transit are nearly completely destroyed. most major infrastructures destroyed, clinics, hospitals, they're all gone. we have to start moving commodities into these areas. >> thank you. appreciate it. when we come back, we're going to talk to a member of the u.s. air force, find out what they are doing here on the ground. there's been a big uptick in u.s. involvement over 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. but there are a lot of people that do ride the bus.

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

really, is very, is very strong. there, there's no way to know how many people have died in this area, but you can smell it in the air. it's everywhere. and 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's very little organization in terms of the philippine side. and that's within of the frustrating things for people here. they don't, they're not getting information. they're not getting, they're not getting food. they're not getting water. and their needs are great. they really need everything. we're seeing an increased effort by the u.s. and i know you just got off the phone with a general who is frustrated. what are you hearing? >> that's right. in the next several hours, he's

headed in your direction, the effort to get that airfield up and running. he told me 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. they will bring very specialized capability. they will have track vehicles that will be able to move out into these remote areas, go right through the debris if need be and get supplies out to the distribution points in the most hard-hit areas. there will also be more helicopters on board these ships and more ability for water purificati purification. this now puts a total within the next couple of 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 start

bringing in supplies, plus getting the airport open around the clock will significantly increase, they hope, the number of flights. but general kennedy also 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 he 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, and this isn't so nice to talk about on tv, sanitation. what general kennedy is telling me is there are countries that

want to send portable toilets, it's going to take a long time to get that many there. he is looking at trying to burn sewage, just to get as much done as he possibly can. anderson? >> barbara, on the medical front, you can maybe pass this along. i've talked to a lot of people, there are three local hospitals. they're not accepting patients anymore. they don't have electricity, they don't have supply, right now the only place patients can go is a small clinic that's overrun with patients. i talked with two doctors there, both of whom say they are overoverwhelmeove overwhelmed. they're dealing with allmaner of

injuries. i want to bring in captain john shay muss. right? >> correct. >> you're here with the air force. what's your job here? >> i'm with a squad to continue pa pararescue. and our primary job is to reestablish this airfield and make sure it's efficient for 24 hours a day. >> how long is that going to take? and what does that require? >> well, for example yesterday we arrived and the lights on the runway weren't working. so we have the ability to set up lights. as of yesterday the lights are working again. but then the next question is can we do night operations? what we bring to the fight is the effort to assist in 24 hour operations which includes 12 hours of night operations. >> are you hoping, i mean, can you put a time frame on when you think you might get it up and running? >> tonight, right now, it's operational. we're using our capabilities.

our guys will be controlling aircraft, controlling special operations. to bring in more supplies and evacuate refugees. >> that would be awesome, as you know. yesterday with the bad weather, it was hard to get planes in. you also have some medical assessment capabilities. >> yes, we do have pararescue. they can provide aid up to trauma level, get them to sustain them to a high level facility. so we can help out the locals with that as well. >> appreciate all your efforts of t. glad you're here. it really is ramping up the efforts by the united states here. i got to tell you, the scene here at the airport is really desperate. right now there are hundreds of people here. if you just look, these people are all just waiting, people kind of come here to the airport hoping to get on a philippine airport c-130 that will take

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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 are still a lot of areas we don't know about. this is the airport where people are just flocking to. people, hundreds of people, thousands of people come here, 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 in the morning walking through. there were no lights, and people are just sitting. they have nowhere to sleep. 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're

injured, if they have family members that they can be cared for. but there's no guarantee for a lot of people, and the leans to get on those c-130s are very long. personnel are starting to clean up the area around theary port. this is the first time we're actually seeing this. so that is, i suppose, a seen of progress. this is five days senince the typhoon. and this is the first real tangible sign we've seen of a clean up. they are planning, the u.s. military is planning to get this airfield up and running on a 24 hour basis by tonight. that would be a big help term -- in testimorms of getting help h. as you're about to see, a couple

blocks from here, there is just nothing but misery. in tacloban, the misery is beyond meanin meaning. this is your home? the first, she say, our house was one of the first to come down. she sought shelter in this bus with her husband and six children. she survived. they were swept away. >> and has anyone come to help you? >> i really want to see them, she says, even if it's just their bodies. she has found the body of her husband. and shows us the bodies of three of her children. she's covered the kids as best she can. now she searches for her three other children. she doesn't believe they survived the storm. >> where will you sleep tonight?

>> here in the street. anywhere. i don't know where i go. >> in tacloban, there isn't anyplace to go. juanita martinez is living in a makeshift shelter. his daughter and dwife are covered with sacks nearby. juanita cooks some rice and noodles for his neighbors. one of the men tells us he wants to call his mother in manila. he's desperate to tell her that he survived but his wife and two other children are dead. we dial her number on our satellite phone. they're gone, all gone, he says.

i don't know why this happened to me. he won't find answers here in tacloban. he'll only find loss, he'll only find misery. with so little help, that is just not going away. just about everybody you meet in neighborhoods around here seems to have lost somebody or is searching for somebody. i met more and more. even after shooting that, we met another woman who was 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 pe picking up bodies, which was one of the few crews, actually, we saw removing bodies. there's no accurate count of how many people have lost their lives here because there's been no concerted effort to retrieve

those who have died. many of them, they're all still just 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 wynne. he's an american missionary who lives here in tacloban who escaped the storm surge. i want to warn you about the audio. a c-130 came in and it is a little loud. so stick with it. explain what happened to you during this storm. >> we were in our house, expecting a strong wind and rain, but just a short time after the typhoon started we had watch add couple trees fall in the yard. and then i noticed under the front door this black water began to come in, a rather strong current, and then i looked out the window sill. and by the time i comprehended

what i saw, the water had almost risen to the level of the window sill. it was quite high and coming quite fast. and i realized we were in some serious trouble. >> how fast was the water rising? >> i wish i could rate it. i would say we were on the entertainment ceiling in our, i'm sorry, ents taenment center. we were in the ceiling, i would say, in less than, i'm going, and 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 that you've been seeing, that you were able to see here? >> i really did not, the relief

effort that i saw was people doing whatever they could do on their own to get food. everything's been looted, as far as i know. and it's just, it's not because people are bad people. it's because people need food. they need water. they're 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 while we were there, we were, every day we had a network of people in our church and every day they were going out trying to find water, trying to find rice, trying to find any type of food, medicines that they could find. there was no communication. it seemed to regular people, unless they would go to locations like the airport or the city hall. they were having a very hard time finding things. i hope that, the purpose of my doing the interview is to 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 need a lot of it. >> that ses that's certainly still the case. i appreciate you talking to me. when we come back, we're going to show you the children affected by this storm. [ imitating car engine ] that's mine. ♪ that's mine. that's mine. ♪ come on, kyle. ♪ [ horn honks ] that's mine...kyle.

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>> the people here in tacloban have great dignity, 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 no official help, have had nobody other than other neighbors trying to help them find their kids. paula hancocks is joining us. you've been here from the beginning. you have seen a relief effort? have you seen an impact out there of, i mean, we've seen flights coming in. i know there's people working hard, but is it getting out there? >> it's certainly not organized. it's going somewhere, but it's a drop in the ocean compared to what's needed. we're fee ive days on. and people are coming to me saying i want food, water, why are there bodies still here? people are trying to live in the rubble of their homes. >> family members are living

next to their dead children, their dead husbands and wives. >> most people here are holding a child or baby. not only are they concerned about the fact that they can't get food and water for the baby, but the security concerns. they are desperate to get out. it is a humanitarian airlift, a mass evacuation, an attempt, those who really want to get out are the small children. >> the line to get out is, you can't see it from here. you may be able to see those umbrellas behind me. it stretches for hundreds of yards, i'm told, right thousand in the sun. people just line up. and they're just there all day long, for, for a handful of flights out, a chance to get out, because that's really the only option, because it's not as if they're able to shelter someplace and get food and water. there's just nothing to be had right now. >> i spoke to one woman a moment ago, and she said it's a miracle i survived the tie foop and my

baby survived the typhoon. she literally grabbed her baby. and she said am i going to survive this? >> you have been looking at the effect on kids. >> absolutely. most of it is not heartwarming. >> reporter: 11 month old anthony is blissfully unaware how lucky he is to be alive. his mother stuck her son on her head to keep him alive above the floodwaters. >> many people crying, many people say help, help. >> reporter: she lost her husband and many other relatives. >> now i don't know where we go. if we can survive.

it's very traumatic, very hard. >> reporter: thousands are trying to take their children away from the devastation and the worsening security situation. >> this woman had two 2010 boys weeks ago. she's terrified to stay. >> looters and they can harm my children and us as well. >> reporter: in the midst of all this pain, there was one ray of hope in this hospital. a baby girl was born in the most challenging of circumstances. her mother was brought in by neighbors. pregnant women evacuated to give birth, but she was too close. >> the baby came out, cried right away. there wasn't any problems. and there was no bleeding. so, it was a perfect delivery in a very imperfect environment. >> reporter: once she was born, the entire hospital applauded.

a baby bringing relief in the most intense human suffering. >> and there have been i think three births in that makeshift hospital, for this area is the only shopt. you had talked to somebody who said that they didn't know what a storm surge was. they didn't know to evacuate. >> this man came up to me and said why didn't they call it a tsunami? we know the word tsunami. we would have evacuated. >> they didn't know the surge of water was going to be coming through. that's what caused so many deaths. >> he assumed it would be a high tide or wave. if the word tsunami had been mentioned, so many more people would have been evacuated and be alive today. we're going to take a quick break. we'll be back in a moment. i put in the hours and built a strong reputation in the industry. i set goals and worked hard to meet them. i've made my success happen. so when it comes to my investments, i'm supposed to just hand it over to a broker and back away?

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everywhere around here. there's a, it's a cow, it's a dead cow, it looks like behind it there's a body of a person covered in a green cloth. that's not an uncommon sight here unfortunately, five days into this storm. one reporter went out with the mayor, and here's what they saw. >> reporter: in tacloban city, they're calling him the ghost. many people here thought that the city's mayor had died in the typhoon. he. >> i was in that building which is by the beach. and the waves were hitting the roof of the building. >> reporter: he's take 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 mare and 14 others were here when haiyan struck. >> another concrete wall there. >> reporter: the surge devastated the building. 6 inch concrete walls were smashed like tissue paper, he says. >> boom, the door, bang, the other door blasted open. water gushed in. >> reporter: as the water rose seven took their chances outside while the mayor and the others inside climbed into the ceiling space. >> the water was going up. so we had to go all the way in there. we climbed all the way up here. >> reporter: here? >> no. we had to move, just over there. >> reporter: and how high did the water go? >> almost to the ceiling. >> reporter: and there they stayed until it was safe. all 14 survive. but how? when so many perished around

them? >> you have to really think before you do something, can you do it? you have to know your capabilities. >> reporter: but it wasn't over yet. he still had to find where his family had survived in another house about a mile away. they had. >> my wife kept saying, see, i told you it's going to come. and i was the first one there. >> reporter: it was an extraordinary escape. but back in the car, he tells me that so many more would have survived if there'd been a simple change in the warnings his town was given. >> we do drills for sfaum. and when we do drills for tsunami about 80% of them really get out. >> ander, you've been here throughout, you've been here during the storm.

how frustrated are you by the relief effort here? have you seen much of a relief effort? >> increasingly frustrated. not just me. you walk around downtown tack hoban, and there's piles of rotting gash badge, carcasses of animals. there's no real evidence of organized relief. i saw a van handing out packages of three-day relief. that was perhaps for 50 people. there are tens of thousands of people who have been affected. they're still saying, they are walking up to us saying we have no food. we need water. we need help. at the moment, the frustration levels down there are extraordinarily high. and i don't sense they're still really getting a grip on meeting this problem as it should be met. >> richard brannen was quoted saying if haiti is a 10, the philippines is a 11 in terms of the difficulty of an operation

like this. really, everything has been destroyed here. there's very little to work with. >> it's a demolition and construction job. they have to go in and clear vast amounts of this town to clear the bodies. the media are standing here. but all we've seep are dozens of people trying to leave. there's nothing left for them in the town now. that's issue they have to deal with now. what do you do with the people who used to live here right now. what can you provide them back where they used to live. >> and of course the problem you have with the rae discovery efforts, it's very easy to criticize, but the first responders are the victims here. they have warehouses filled with goods, but they're gone and destroyed. so there's basically starting from scratch. >> the local police force, 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 this kind of scope of the devastation, even though it's not as big as a tsunami in 20 2004. >> i've been hearing a lot of stories about people sending out their wives and children and staying at their house to guard the property from whatever. a lot of people going back before the storm as well, and if you look at the devastation down there, it will take a long time to actually find out what is under that rubble. and consider that this was a 600

kilometer wide storm. the eye passed us 10 kilometers to the south. you're talking about a swath of devastation right down this coast. >> when we're covering the tsunami in japan just a few years ago, i remember on day one or day two there were members of the japanese defense, civil defense force-out, even though they didn't have heavy earth moving equipment, they were out with sticks, going through the rubble, trying to find survivors, trying to find those who had lost. i haven't seen that out. i haven't seen a large philippine military presence out in these areas. we've seen it here in the airport. and we're seeing they're cleaning up now parts of the airport which is certainly a good start, but have you seen that in your time in the field? >> no. the search and rescue operation doesn't appear to have gotten started. i spoke to the president. he said we're focussing on the living. but the search and rescue never seems to have materialized. in japan you barely saw a dead

body after day 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 themselves. 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. dead, need a tow or lock your keys in the car, geico's emergency roadside assistance is there 24/7. oh dear, i got a flat tire. hmmm. uh... yeah, can you find a take where it's a bit more dramatic on that last line, yeah? yeah i got it right here. someone help me!!! i have a flat tire!!! well it's good... good for me. what do you think? geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance.

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a proud day for many new yorkers, anderson? >> indeed. isha thanks very much. that's it for us here in tacloban. "outfront" next, president versus president. even if it takes a change in the law the president should honor the commitment. >> bill clinton's strong words for president obama. plus should you be on anti-cholesterol pills? >> some of these side effects are pretty significant. >> researchers say millions who aren't on the drugs should be. but are they really safe? >> and from bad to worse. >> we don't have homes, we lost our homes. and we have nothing to eat. we really need help now. >> the latest from the phillipines. let's go "outfront."