current generation is the fact that people don't like his successors. lyndon johnson, the failure in vietnam. nixon watergate, ford carter. the two bushes. kennedy alongside of them has a halo over his head. >> he certainly does. i've got to leave it there. sorry to interrupt. it's been a fascinating debate, fascinating show in many ways to meet these people. been quite surreal, the surgeons and those who witnessed it all and to talk to you guys about the historical perspective has been fascinating. thank you all very much indeed. tomorrow a cnn special" the assassination of jfk" how those tragic events changed america. that's all for us tonight. anderson cooper reports now live from the philippines. good evening, everyone. i'm anderson cooper reporting tonight from tacloban in the philippines. it is thursday morning here, 9:00 a.m. and a new day has begun. in the last several hours there

have been some significant developments to tell you about. yesterday i talked to the marine brigadier general paul kennedy who promised he would be able to get this airport, the runway, up and running on a 24-hour basis. he's fulfilled that promise along with air force personnel who were here on the ground last night for the first time aircraft were coming in during the nighttime hours, able to land and offload supplies. we have actually seen an uptick in aid along the side of the runway from usaid, from the malaysian government, from other places. food aid medical supplies, and tarps that people can use for shelter. the problem is getting it out from here at the airport to the surrounding communities that are in such desperate need. and it's not just a question of communities far away. i'm talking about communities that are half a mile from here. even a clinic here at the airport, people come up to you all the time, look at all the people milling around here at the airport. many they come here every day desperate to get on some sort of

a flight out of here. they don't have food, they don't have water. and you would think at the one place with supplies coming in here, the one place it would be easy to distribute water or food to people would be here at the airport. but there are people begging us for water just little sips of water. i want to show you what we saw at a clinic several hours ago. a clinic that's been set up here at the airport, a clinic that's simply overwhelmed. take a look. >> it's like this every day now in this overcrowded clinic at tacloban airport, there are too many people, not enough supplies. >> it's a little bit chaotic. >> it looks very kay of zblik as you can see we don't have any medicines, we don't have any supplies. we have iv fluids but it's running out. and most of the people here doesn't have water or food, that's why they come here. most of the kids are dehydrated,

most of them are suffering from diarrhea and vomiting. >> this doctor has been here for three days. it feels much long. >> what do you need here? >> mostly need food and water. that's the most important supplies that we need for all the -- >> so you don't even have enough food and water for the sick people coming. >> yeah. >> more people just keep coming in. this captain stitches up a man injured in the typhoon. used bandages lie in a pile on the floor. nearby, a member of the phillipine military reads names off a list of those who get to be evacuated today. >> so who gets to be evacuated right away? what makes someone eligible? >> well, like the elderly, the children that are sick. >> for some, the wait is too long. this man died last night. he lies on a gurney at the end of the hall, they have no place else to put him.

a mother plays with her child, and in a tiny side room, three babies have been born in the last three days. >> it's a very beautiful baby. >> it's a boy. >> i know. he's very beautiful. >> a healthy baby boy named haiyan, named for a storm he will know nothing about. not only is the boy's name haiyan for the some, his middle name is daniel which is the name of the airport, i'm told. so his mother named him after both the storm and the place where he was born. imagine being born in this place amid this catastrophe. there are americans here who have been trying to get out. i want to introduce you to rick stanford we just met at the airport. you are hoping to get out today >> yes, we are. we're trying to get up to manila for tonight and maybe move up to the papanga area where we have some friends that could help us relocate over there. >> you're retired. been living here just for the

last couple of months. how has it been the last few days? what have you seen out there? >> it's turning into absolute chaos. as soon as the food runs out and the water runs out, people are going to get desperate. we've had gunfire in our neighborhood. we've had reports of npa trying to take over the town. so it's only going to get worse until somebody gets over here and gives us a hand. >> you talk about the lack of food and water once it runs out. have you seen large-scale relief efforts via government officials handing out water, handing out food? >> absolutely not. >> you were just saying the security situation is deteriorating from what you saw. >> it is. we went to the pier, my wife's family is in an island called talalora. they were bringing in fresh water for us. my wife and i were riding our bike back, and we got into a street and all of a sudden a mob of people are running towards us. and we have gunshot going off.

>> do you understand why it's so hard to get water? why it's so hard to get food? you're having relatives bring you water from another island. there are planes coming in. have you been able to talk to anybody on the phillipine side about what the holdup is? >> what i've heard is supplies will come in and you'll have a mob of people going in there and taking them. so it's not being distributed. there's not enough security here to keep the people in line. we need that. and we need to get some sort of generators going so that we can get some fresh water going, get some fuel so that people can move back and forth. >> what was it like for you when you finally arrived here at the airport with your family and you awe saw u.s. marines here? >> you're going to make me cry on this one. it was the most beautiful sight i've ever seen. god bless the usa. when i saw those american flags

on those uniforms, i knew that we were going to be taken care of. and the first thing they said, you're a u.s. citizen. you're our first priority. and thank god for that. but if i could say something, i wish that the u.s. embassy would do something for us ex pats who have wives that are phillipine citizens to help us get them to the united states. we have no place to live here and we need to get back to the u.s. and they need to be able to expedite some sort of visas or something to get there. >> also it's got to be shocking for you when you look and you see the hundreds of phillipine citizens who are lined up, been lined up for days, and it's very slow for them to get out. >> it is. and what's even worse is going through the town and seeing people just sitting on the side, knowing that they have no place to go. the hope is just fading from them. so they really need to have the government -- the phillipine

government needs to step it up and do something to help them. and i know the united states will because the united states is always the first one in there to help a country. >> rick, i appreciate it. i'm glad your family is safe. glad you're getting out. take care. my best to your family. again, i cannot emphasize how frustrating it is for residents here, for phillipine citizens to be standing at this airport for hours and hours, without getting water, without getting food. and that's the frustration. they want to know why can't we have some water? why can't we have something here? paula hancocks has been covering this disaster from the beginning. i understand that you talked to the phillipine -- the interior minister who was here on the ground. and he was upset with me, i understand. >> reporter: that's right, yes. he came here about midnight last night while they were still working. he said that he was upset by a tweet that he thought you had sent saying there is no presence of government. apparently this had been picked

up by the local media and was made into a big story. >> what did the tweet allegedly say? no presence of the government. i never said that. nor have i been able to send out any tweets because there's no cell service here. the show sent out a tweet based on something i said, which was -- and i think you would probably agree with this -- i've seen very little large scale phillipine military in the surrounding areas. there's phillipine military here at the airport and some road blocks in the town. but in terms of like a grid lie grid search, a street by street search for any survivors or those who have died i haven't seen any searches, have you? >> reporter: i've seen no systematic search for survivors. i have not seen that up all i've seen is the recovery of bodies at this point. what the interior minister is saying is what the government has been saying all along. that the local government, the local infrastructure was wiped out. so the first responders that would usually deal with this kind of crisis were the victims

themselves. so this is really what they have been trying to hammer home to people, which is why they believe that the issue is in the media that it may have been a little slow. but they're very sensitive to people saying this is slow. but you've got to say what you see. >> the don't mind being criticized for something i actually said. obviously i did not say that. but i will say, and you hear pretty all the residents here, they don't understand why a mother who's lost six children and who's only found three of their bodies, why she has to search all by herself, why some military or police assets can't be used as they were in japan after the tsunami to search block by block to even look for any survivors. i know early on the government said our emphasis is on the survivors, not recovering the dead. but there could have been people trapped alive under rubble. and unless there's an organized search which i haven't seen -- again just in this area, lives could have possibly been saved. >> reporter: absolutely.

this is many natural disasters that we've covered, this is what you see at the beginning, the desperate look for the survivors. but it has been on an individual basis. it's been as you say the mother looking for her children. the one thing the interior minister said as well when i asked him, look around you. there are so many people desperate to get out. this is a chaotic situation. he quoted katrina to me and said other countries have problems as well. i said this is not what you want to aspire to, you want to make sure there is a better response. he said no response would be good enough. >> i just want to clarify. i did not tweet saying that there was no government presence because obviously there is. there are soldiers around. but in terms of organized, large-scale efforts out in this community, i just haven't seen it. nor have everybody i've talked to who's searching for their dead children or dead husbands or dead wives, they said they haven't received help in the search. we've got to take a quick break. we'll have a lot more on the aid effort. again, there has been an up tick in aid arriving here at the

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welcome back. we're live in tacloban. that sound you hear is a phillipine airport c 130. that's offloaded from supplies. they're able to take out a number of phillipine citizens many camped out here for days in some case but overnight and are very eager to get on that flight because of the security situation, the lack of food and water. there's a lot more to tell you about here. we are seeing pockets of hope and improvement. there are more organized effort to recover bodies, to report dead and get them off the streets. but at first i want to go to wolf blitzer in washington with the latest domestic news. wolf? >> anderson, thanks very much. we'll get back to you shortly. there is breaking news we're following here. this was the moment critics of the affordable care act had been predicting, supporters of it had been dreading. the obama administration now releasing enrollment numbers for the first month of the operation, about 79,000 people

enrolled through the state exchanges and about 26,000 through the government's what we call a mess of a web site, healthcare.gov still a mess. far lower than the half million the obama administration was expecting. difficulties with the site and the controversy over president obama's pledge that americans could keep existing policies really came to a head today. key democratic lawmakers signed onto plans to alter the law. others had what's being described as a turbulent meeting with white house officials. meantime, a republican-led house committee grilled some of the obama administration's tech people responsible for healthcare.gov. a lot happening. our chi congressional correspondent dana bash washing it unfold up in capitol hill. dana, these hearings today, members of the administration getting sharply grilled by lawmakers. but did we find out much that we didn't already know? >> reporter: a few things. but it was mostly very, very

partisan, maybe part of the reason why congress's approval rating is 9% right now. but the two things i think are important to take away is one, that the web site is still running at less than half of the intended capacity that the white house intended. so that is not very good news. the other is that the chief information official from the white house who testified says that there is no guarantee that they are actually going to meet the deadline or at least the goal that the white house has to get the web site fully functional by the end of the month. so those are two not great pieces of news given the fact that these numbers we saw in enrollment today were very low in large part because of the web site's problems, wolf. >> you know, that web site is just one of the problems. there's frustration clearly among a lot of democrats, and they brought white house officials to capitol hill today for some closed door meetings to deal with these democrats. they'll be back again tomorrow, i'm told. so what's this all about? >> reporter: that's right. look, this is a big big issue

that many members of congress especially democrats are hearing about from their constituents. and that being that they're getting cancellation letters, getting calls saying that the policy that they do like they can't keep, which of course as we've reported was a promise that the president made. so what's democrats are hoping for is for the white house to give them some kind of sense of a fix, something that they can take to their constituents and say, look, we're dealing with this, we're addressing this. there will be a meeting on capitol hill with white house officials, including i'm told the white house chief of staff on the senate side to talk about this. again, the house side today there was a very contentious meeting. members of congress saying you've got to help us. you've got to give us something. and the white house saying we're working on it. but it's a very difficult issue for them to figure out. it is not easy at all to figure out how to get these health policies back up and running after they've already been canceled because they need to meet the requirements for the new obama care law. >> a lot of these democrats who are up for re-election next year

especially worried. dana, thanks very much. just a little while ago i spoke with dr. ezekiel emanuel. these days he chaired the department of medical ethics and health policy. he's the vice provost of the university of pennsylvania in philadelphia. but back when the affordable care act was being formulated he was a top adviser to the president. >> these numbers remain this dismal, 26,000, the model, it's not going to work. you need healthy young people enrolling in order to get the system to work. >> correct. you need a wide swath of the population to create a pool. absolutely agreed. but this is not a technical problem that is inseperable. the number of people who want insurance is high. i do think this is going to be a solvable problem. >> he said he thought president obama had kept his promise about americans keeping their existing policies, something not even the president fully claims any

longer. let's discuss what's going on. want to bring in a pair of democrats who differ somewhat when it comes to the problems of the affordable care act. daily beast special correspondent and city university of new york professor of journalism and political science, peter beinert and cnn political commentator democratic strategist paul begala and chief political analyst gloria borger. gloria these numbers released today pretty dismal, aren't they? >> very dismal. i think they're evidence of a complete failure, breakdown of this web site. the white house was low balling us and saying you're going to see some low figures. they were right. they were lower than we even anticipated. so i think this is a complete failure. they're trying to say as zeke emanuel just said to you, look, there's a great deal of interest out there. and they're right about that. there were 26 million people at one point or another who clicked onto the web site. there were over 1 million who tried to enroll. so if they can get this fixed,

maybe they can get it going. but right now they've got a president, people are questioning his competency, his honesty and his credibility. >> and paul, the president's approval numbers are really going south right now. only in the last couple of weeks, you could only imagine if the republicans wouldn't have pushed for a government shutdown where those numbers would be right now. given the performance of the obama care web site. so what does he do? >> well, he's got to fix it. he's got to muscle through this. and he's got to get it right. this is one of those deals where we are almost exactly a year past his re-election. and a year away from the next mid-term. if you're going to crater i guess this is as good a time as any. but he's got to get it right. this is where the good policy will lead to good politics. everybody has to calm down. honesty compels me to say if they'd signed up a million or 2 million i would be crowing. the fact they've signed up like 1.5% of their goal i got to eat crow. but it also doesn't mean this thing is fatal or there's no recovery. a few weeks ago i was saying the

shutdown means the republicans can't win in 2014. now republicans are saying the glitches in the web site mean the democrats can't win in 2014. the truth is we don't know what the hell is going to be decided in the 2014 races. we all have to take a chill pill. >> forget about the republicans for the moment, a whole bunch of democrats ready to abandon him as far as the health care is concerned. >> right. i think that's really the big story of the last couple of days. potentially a bigger problem than the web site itself. because the political move that the democrats especially democrats worried about re-election in 2014 want is to be able to tell people they can keep their plans. but you start pulling at one thread in this whole obama care system and the whole thing starts to fall apart. because there's a reason that people weren't allowed to keep those plans. these people need to go onto the exchanges. remember, the exchanges only work if you have young and healthy people entering the exchanges, too. so you keep those people out of

the system and allow them to keep their plans, and you probably don't have a lot of young, healthy people willing to try 8, 10, 12 hours to get on this web site. so already the people who are signing up are probably the older and the sicker. and the entire economic basis of this exchange system starts to collapse. that's a really big problem. >> well, that's really why the administration is saying to democrats, hold on, kind of like paul, saying democrats, hold on. we want to try and do some kind of an administrative fix. because if you do a legislative fix like some of these senate democrats want to do who are up for re-election, if you do it legislatively then you're essentially undermining obama care. because your saying to these individuals, okay, you can keep your policy. and if you can keep your policy you're not going to buy into that risk pool. and if you don't buy into that risk pool, the whole paradigm collapses, falls apart. and undermines the very program that democrats really fought so

hard to promote. >> one number that really jumped out at all of us today, paul, was the number of people whose health insurance policies were canceled in california alone. 1 million people lost their health insurance. they got to now find other health insurance, eventually might be better policies might be even a little cheaper if they get subsidies. but still 1 million people losing their health insurance in california. that's a significant number. >> it is. but i think it breaks up into three sub groups. one is a lot of these policies in the individual market are annual, anyway. so they're canceled every year no matter what. no obama care a lot of people would still be getting cancellations. second, there's a group of them who have policies that aren't worth the paper they're written on. they call them health care policies but it's nonsense. it is like we can't buy an airplane ticket on an airplane that's got maybe got a rubber band and a propel and a 1982 volkswagen engine. there are certain standards that

have to be met. there is a third group where a lot of people think they have pretty good plans and they will lose out for the reasons peter and growloria are talking about. we need them in the obama care pool. you're getting down to a small percentage. a lot of people because it's a big country. but at most 2 to 5%. >> but it's millions of people. and the worst part is of course paul as you know, nobody wants to be surprised. when their president told them one thing and they say, okay, that's great. that's good to know. and then they're surprised and find their policies are canceled, whether they're lousy policies or not, it's bad. >> absolutely. >> those people also tend to be more politically vocal and articulate than -- this is the basic political problem with essentially economic redistribution which is what this is. it's basically the people who are really benefitting tend to be poorer people getting onto medicaid for instance now or sicker and poor people. but those people are not going to have as much political weight as the people who are starting to squawk and write their members of congress. you're seeing that with

democrats revolting, not just conservative democrats but democrats like diane feinstein in california. >> good discussion. up next we'll have some more breaking news. new scandalous accusations about toronto's crack-smoking mayor. but first let's go back to anderson cooper in tacloban in the philippines where the devastation continues. anderson? wolf, sorry. very strange to hear about the crack-smoking mayor when you're over here. when we come back we're going to also take you out to a surrounding area, an island that's been one of the concerns about what's happening in some is of these very hard to reach areas. i'm going to go out with marines and a phillipine captain from the navy to assess the situation on an island about 30 minutes from here. we'll be right back. [ male announcer ] at humana, understanding what makes you different

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it is grim and thankless work for these firefighters. they often get sick while they're doing it. but frankly it has to be done. it's gotten to the point now where the smells in tacloban are overwhelming. the smell of death, the smell of decay. there's simply not enough body bags to go around say local officials. firefighters have been brought in to do the work. military personnel as well. but there hasn't been a centralized, organized effort to remove the bodies.

that does now seem to be increasing just in the last day or so. here there's one, two, three, four, five, six people, two dogs, and over here there's another one, two, three, four, five, six, seven people and a dog that have been bagged. and this is just one block in tacloban. it's like this block after block. you find bodies just about everywhere. and that is the grim reality of life here in tacloban these days. we're going to take you out with u.s. marines, phillipine navy personnel, to an island to assess another town that's been hard hit to see what the needs there are. but first i want to go back to wolf blitzer in d.c., wolf? >> anderson, thanks very much. we're anxious to get your additional reports. but there is some breaking news we're following here. toronto's embattled mayor now facing even more allegations of drug and alcohol abuse and

erratic behavior. this comes after a tense city council meeting today at toronto where the mayor, rob ford, admitted he bought illegal drugs in the past two years while in office. just last week he also admitted to smoking crack cocaine. paula newton joins us from toronto with the breaking news. paula, tell our viewers what happened. >> reporter: wolf, as if this story couldn't get any more salacious, hours ago information released from court, information that had been secret before, that mayor rob ford allegedly was doing prescription drugs, other kinds of drugs, was on a binge drinking evening in 2012 on st. patrick's night that he drove drunk and that he may have been with an escort. all of these are detail, wolf, that were alleged by his own staff members when they were interviewed by police. but wolf, really, what kind of a day it's been here at city hall. so many people saying they have never seen anything like it. it was like tuning into a reality show. take a look.

>> i'm answering. but you don't want to hear my answers. >> actually you're not being truthful. that's my problem. >> i'm not being truthful? have you been into that house? >> i have no interest in being in that house. i'm not a crack user. >> many in toronto would say the nickname is unfair. but crack town lived up to its billing as its mayor, rob ford, made confession after confession as he faced an inquisition from city counselors. >> have you purchased illegal drugs in the last two years? >> yes, i have. >> thank you. >> reporter: and on it went. a veritable public intervention that put mayor ford on the spot and on the couch. this one from one of his allies. >> mr. mayor, do you recognize there are a few of us that really do want to help you? >> councilor, it was not the reason i drank or did drugs was

not because of stress. it was out of sheer stupidity. that's all it was. so i'm not going to blame something. i'm not going to use an excuse or a cop out. i take full responsibility for my mistake. i don't know what else i can say. >> councilors wanted it hear i resign. but on it went for several more uncomfortable hours. >> there's nothing more to say, guys. i really f'd up and that's it. >> it didn't matter what he said. federal councilor councilor voted overwhelm rig for the mayor to leave. but no one can legally force the mayor to quit. in an exclusive interview with cnn, doug ford, the mayor's big brother, says no way. the mayor is staying put, calling fellow councilors a bunch of hypocrites. >> everybody has faced it and they're willing to forgive. they aren't willing to fer give rob ford. >> they would if he stepped

down. >> why should he step down? again let the people decide. >> reporter: outside, a few thousand protesters made it clear they have decided the mayor can't stay on the job. >> do you have any power to stop it? >> how are we going to stop it in any way we can. by any legal means necessary. and we're going to keep pressure up until he's gone. this isn't the end. this is the beginning. >> and that's been the point here all along, people saying that look, this isn't the end, this is the beginning of a protest movement. the mayor's response? bring it on. >> listen, be very careful. >> reporter: even as new allegations swirled about drug abuse, he says nothing will tear him away from his job. >> paula, all this new information you mentioned earlier, it's important to note none has been proven in court. so what's the status of the police investigation? is the mayor himself cooperating with law enforcement?

>> reporter: well, that was quite a bombshell, something that was missed was the sordid details today rob ford admitted in council chambers he is not cooperating with the police investigation. i spoke to his attorney afterwards he says that is the advice to the mayor and he takes it. the problem here, this is a man who is in charge of the police department. he's not cooperating with the very department that he oversees. many people are wondering how long this can go on, mayor ford says look, i'm not an addict. i am staying on this job. i am a good mayor, and no one can prove otherwise. wolf? >> paula newton in toronto for us. what a story that is. thanks very, very much. let's go back to anderson. he's in the philippines. anderson? just unbelievable story out of toronto, wolf. when we come back we'll show you the scenes that we have been witnessing for days now. the hundreds of thousands of people just lined up waiting to get out. we'll be right back. [ tires screech ]

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new york. where is the desperation in tacloban more evident than here at the airport where thousands of residents line up. they're waiting and have been waiting for hours for a seat on a plane to take them to manila, phillipine military flight. there's no guarantee they're going to get on a flight today, however. they just come here every day. these are the priority cases, oftentimes they have children, they are elderly, but they are desperate to get out. they've been here for hours and they're going to be here for many more hours until the plane arrives. as i told you at the top of the program, as promised by brigadier general paul kennedy of the u.s. marines, he has been able to get this airport operating on a 24-hour basis. so flights are coming in at last night. last night was the first night that happened bringing in more aid supplies. that is certainly the good news. the other good news is that the marines have started to spread

out it try to get out and assess the needs along with their counterparts in the phillipine navy, phillipine military, assess some of these smaller towns and cities on islands and outlying areas that are more difficult to get to. some of them you can only get by air or by water. we went out a short time ago with the marines on their osprey jets. let's watch. >> the ospreys have arrived. american marines are now using their unique aircraft to check on remote island communities cut off by the typhoon. today we're flying to samar. the damage to its main city is clear. ospreys fly like planes but can also hover like helicopters. before landing the crew makes sure the runway is safe. most of the passengers on board today are phillipine navy personnel. captain troy trinidad is trying

to assess the needs of the island's people. >> is there food enough? >> no. >> 45,000 people live here. 87 died in the storm. hundreds are sick or injured, and some need urgent care. >> the lady here needs medical attention that she cannot get on this small island. so colonel trinidad has been asked if u.s. military will take her someplace else. they're going to try to bring her on the osprey back to tacloban, and from there get her either to manila or to sabu. dozens of people are waiting and watching, hopeful more relief is on the way. >> what's it like for you to see this? you have seen a lot of disasters, a lot of typhoons in your country. >> i've been through typhoons, this is the worst. devastation is so wide, so severe. tacloban badly hit? this is worse. >> this is worse? >> this is worse. >> and it hasn't gotten the attention yet. >> not yet.

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

a lot of capabilities with the aircraft. quick turns, carry a lot of cargo. drop off supplies, bring in injured. it's really an amazing tool. >> after 40 minutes on the ground they reboard the planes. the woman in her wheelchair and her family members are brought along as well. one more island, one more mission. the effort here has really just begun. >> if you've been watching our coverage of the last several days you may remember the first day when we arrived, we went out to a community about maybe half a mile or so from here. we walked out there. we found a man who was desperate to get in touch with his mother in manila, let his mother know that he was still alive but that his wife was dead and two of his children were dead. he still had one daughter left alive named christina. there are no cell phones, cell service is down. we gave him our satellite phone. and he was able to talk to his mother. here's how that went.

>> translator: they're gone, they're all gone, he says. mama >> translator: i don't know why this happened to me. >> we've been getting a lot of inquiries from people on social media, twitter and facebook about what has happened to him, how he is doing. we haven't been able to get back in touch with him. right after this broadcast we're going to go out to the neighborhood again, walk around and try to find him just to see how he's doing. one of the saddest things that he said to us, which didn't make it into our report is, he said that with the death of his wife, with the death of two of his children, that he thought about killing himself. but the only thing that kept him alive and is keeping him alive is the fact that one of his daughters, his eldest daughter is still alive. and she needs him. so he's staying alive simply for

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american marines promised to get this airport up and running on a 24-hour basis. they have lived up to that promise along with u.s. air force personnel who are here on the ground overseeing operations. last night was the first night that c 130 cargo planes were able to land during nighttime hours. as you can tell it's already made a difference. there's a lot more aid on the ground here in tacloban airport. these are actually boxes of medical supplies. looks like they're from germany. these are boxes, pallets full of boxes from usaid from the united states. these are plastic tarps, sheets that can be cut up by families. thousands of them. they can be used for shelter, which is critically important here for the people who have really no shelter from the elements whatsoever. the question is how quickly can this aid be distributed out to the communities that need it

most? can it be distributed safely, efficiently and quickly. that's the big hold up right now. the phillipine government on the local government here, even the federal government is very disorganized. there aren't the capabilities. they don't have trucks. there's a shortage of fuel. so how quickly this aid can get out there right now, that's the biggest challenge. that certainly is a big challenge as we've been seeing. i'm joined by all our correspondents who have been here a lot longer than i have. we talked about this at the top of the program. i just want to reiterate, there apparently is some belief among the phillipine government or the interior minister, he was upset with me saying they tweeted something that there's no government presence here. there certainly is a government presence. what i was saying and i didn't tweet anything at all was saying that i have not seen a big relief effort out in communities by phillipine military personnel doing a grid search for bodies, even searching for any survivors. do you all agree with that

pretty much? what are you seeing out there in terms of the aid effort? it's certainly gotten better over the last day >> reporter: absolutely. just yesterday i was with the world food program. they had three army trucks taking the aid down to a big warehouse. there's actually a warehouse that was pre-existing and hadn't been demolished. they called it the golden warehouse because i wasn't hit by the storm and it wasn't looted. there was an apc down there. there was a lot of military down there to make sure. but there's a lot of food there. wfp says they've got 75,000 family packs that are out there. they want to get the word out that people are getting food at this point. >> i've been speaking to the man in charge of the government response of this. his analogy is it's like trying to fill up a swimming pool with hoses. like getting more and more hoses in there and they are. he said look, we had a plan. our plan was to come in on day three. it was going to be a first responder issue. but as he points out the first responders disappeared. now, they got in here 24 hours after that storm that weren't able to do much.

and there's no doubt about it. you go downtown now and there is so much anger still. and there is a military presence. but there's still so much work to be done down there. so the government realizes that but they say we're doing the best we can. >> we went for a drive yesterday out from tacloban to the towns that lie in the southern road also in the path of the storm. as you drove away from here, it slowly less affected. still badly hit. key issue for the first furthest one away rebels and bandits they claim robbing civilians for food perhaps. you move back into the town palu not far away from here, very concrete in its infrastructure. able to resist a lot. an organized mayor who said to us she buried 813 in the first 48 hours. they've given out food before the storm. they had an instruction working there. that's all great. this begs the question this is the big city here. it's a huge gulf in the government's capability here. there are still dead bodies on

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that's it for us here in the philippines. thanks for watching. erin burnett "outfront" starts now. "outfront" next obama care's numbers timely released. but they don't add up to nearly enough for the white house. then families ripped apart in the philippines. >> i lost my daughter. i told her during the evacuation, go go. but my daughter said no, mama, i can't leave you. and the best defense is a good offense. >> hold it. have you ever smoked marijuana? it's a question. it's simple. a yes or a no? have you smoked marijuana? have you smoked marijuana? >> let's go "outfront." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com