lynette lim, you were in tacloban, and were an eyewitness to the worst of the typhoon.here do you seek shelter? what did you see when it made landfall? >> i was stationed at the department of education for regent 8. the structure was safe, so we were able to look outside at what had happened. on the second floor i was fortunate enough to have missed the storm surge that came up to a metre, a metre and a half, with strong currents as well. outside on the window i could see debris being blown away and hitting against a window. glass was shattered, and roofs were being ripped off, as well as trees falling, electrical lines down. cars were turned over. it was a devastating site. >> the storm surge was not as high where you were, but in other places they said it was 16-20 feet. people on the second story of some buildings were just taken away by the water. >> yes, indeed. i was inland about 400m away from the sea. so it was quite a fortunate incident for me. >> craig, do you get a sense that the philippine authorities have anything resembling a grasp yet on how much devastat

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. >> that is lynette lim with save the children. earlier tonight i speak by phone with brigadier paul kennedy. he is commanding u.s. military relief operations and i asked for an update on relief efforts. >> we have got generators inbound on aircraft today, that will allow the city to re-establish power. i'm not saying that that is on a strict timeline. it will take effort to put it in place. that will translate into the philippine government taking civil authority back and trying to provide services from their end, rather than it being provided by the military community. that is a positive development. the other development is we an outlaying cities that have reported in. they are in bad shape. the reports are a couple of days old. we received a report that the second largest city - looks like they may have their own city water restored. we have pushed folks there to test that. that's huge news. the other development is last night. we opened the airfield up for c 1724 hour operations. that's huge. last night we had ground convoys a