thousands of soldiers of now joined rescue workers to search for survivors in remote areas. jamila allan doug and has more now from stood aghast city. the philippine village. she invited us to a reconnaissance flight over the eastern part of the mindanao region to see for ourselves the damage caused by super typhoon. right? sure go island is were super tape for not re 1st made landfall in the philippines. what was once a popular tourist destination reduced to this, the pilot then turned towards the nugget. island even from afar. the damage was distressing to see. it didn't matter whether their house was big or small. the typhoon packing wind speed close to 200 kilometers an hour, did not discriminate damaging. almost every building. after landing ensued, he goes city. general admirals order is clear, aid must reach those devastated areas. as soon as possible, the magnitude of the damage is lini b. it is because the one that was affected our island robbins is if you will address those problem bursts and burn. what's your problem? released logistics nightmare. we drove around the mean town city

help reverse all of this. jamila allan doug and investigates. from manila, aaron jeweler, sylvester known as e g says life has never been dis challenging. he owned a travel agency for 20 years, but it went bankrupt after the crew in a virus pandemic broke out. he worked at part time as a musician, but that too has now been put on hold for some of the luxuries we used to enjoy. we had to stop that 1st. ah course, we've also had to adjust our budget for food, expensive utilities. we save whatever we can and spend only one with what we mean. small and medium sized enterprises like the travel agency, e. g used to operate, accounted for around 60 percent of jobs in the country. but latest figures show more than 2 thirds of these businesses have been seriously affected or closed completely by the corona, virus pandemic reporting amendments. the certain economic provisions of the night. but congressional efforts to revive discussions about amending the constitution to relax its foreign ownership restrictions have not been welcomed with open arms. criti

got islands were at the epicenter and of jamila. allan doug reports survivors a desperate for drinking water and food? this is central st. dinner, good island, a town which bore the brunt of super typhoon rice fury on thursday. what was once a thriving coastal community? now desolate? ma maritza and you're on the, you're to ring and have been living here for more than 50 years. a home the built to raise a family. this is all what's left of it live on very long for to like i own. when, when you know that they phone was very strong and we went downstairs to haine. but our walls and so we rather than a, were a, were very scared of an animal right everywhere you look, there is destruction. it's been days since typhoon right. devastated. the southern philippines, but this community remains cut off from the rest of the world. though so survived here tell us. life will never be the same again for them. men here feel frustrated and dependent. hardly anything is spared here in the market. not even its provincial capital, like a landscape scraped by a steel brush or the immediate aftermath of a