city of tacloban looks to be ground zero. >> survived cause i climbed a tree. >> reporter: we met kan not far from the ruins of th airport. >> i'm very happy because i'm alive. i'm alive. >> reporter: she a her family are in a makeshift shelter becae there is nothing left of their homes. >> we dot have anything to do but live. we survived the typhooand now are questioning ourlves how to svive in terms of foo in terms of water. >> reporter: a nearby chapel serves as a makeshift morgue. father tells me his 2-year-old son is inside. he explains how fast the water rose. wonders how anyone rvived. people in this once bustling city of 200,000 ve seen many typhoons before. but thing like this. they are without food, without drinkable water. ey have no adequate shelter. our colleague anguwalker is in another part of the decimated ci. >> the local martplace, one of e worst affected are in taclan. all the shops and houses made of wood, now a pile of tangd timber. reya, eight months pregnant, shs me the house, o of the few made of concrete, that her father sheltered in. >> we'reotble to savour faer. veryad. >>eporter: this typhoon was