. >> journalist maria russa. , where you are it is already tuesday, i'm sure they're learning more about the amount of devastation. what can you tell us now? >> it's the fourth day since the supertyphoon hit and still at this point the full extent of the damage is not known. you don't have real aid, food and water and necessities reaching the people that need it most. roads that are impassible, large swaths of this area is devastated, officials are estimating 90 to 95% of their towns are decimated, last night the official death toll was given to us as 1074 but as you know that figure may rise to over 10,000. >> this area of tacloban was extremely bad hit, is there some reason why that area was so badly hit? >> you have a category 5 storm. that area bore the brunt of the category 5 winds. and the bay itself amplified the storm surges, storm surge of ten to 20 feet high, hitting not inland. this is something that neither the experts or officials were prepared for. >> the philippines have seen many strong storms before. were they prepared for this? >> in the level of experience that we have