to chinese involvement, there are also entt issues they have disputes with philippines in the south china u sea. how much has that played, do you think, in their inability or unwillingness to help out? >> senator, it's a good ess to question. h the disputes between china and the philippines over maritime boundaries in particular is wel known.partic i don't want to try to speak for the chinese government because i don't know how much, if at all,o that's affected their response. but certainly, the disputes have been getting a lot of attentiont and something we pay a lot of on attention to, as well. >> we heard mostly about the out efforts in tacloban. can you talk about efforts in ua some of the other provinces, islands, what is the u.s. doing? >> absolutely. the storm first made landfall ie the area of guiuan which is in the far east of samar island, and then continued along througn the central philippines, going almost directly over top of tacloban city, and onwards across the northern tip of the island of cebu, and then some of the islands further west. it had weakened by that time. so the wor