they were in tacloban city during the whole storm. just got an update that my parents made it to another town, that they just left tacloban somehow to get to another town because of the smell. and their health issues. >> and jacqueline, this is randi kaye in new york, i'm going to try to pick this up as we establish our communication with anderson in manila. but your biggest concern is about your mother's health. what was it about her health? >> yes, a few days before they left to go to the philippines, they left chicago first. but a few days before that, she had to go to the hospital, she has copd. and also had had some sort of an infection, my concern is she is not able to walk around, get around on her own without a wheelchair. there is concern about other asthma. one of the worries is because of her medications, she needed to get her breathing treatments. and with the lights out, we don't know the situation, if she is okay or not. >> so you and your sisters, from what i understand they're trying to get them out and get them back to

tacloban, desperate to get out. >> everything, our houses, there's nothing to eat, nothing to drink. >> reporter: four days after the storm hit the magnitude of the destruction, it's still unfolding. the city of tacloban with a population of 220,000 was hit with the full force of the storm and all but wiped off the map. >> every building here is either significantly damaged or destroyed. >> reporter: hospitals and pharmacies were washed away, leaving health care workers desperate for medicines. decomposing bodies storm the streets. an international relief effort has begun. the "dus george washington" and other ships are expected to arrive within days. 9 million people were affected by the storm. in the united states, victims' relatives trying to reach and help loved ones, collecting emergency supplies and raising money. >> my mother and youngest sister were holding around in a refrigerator, floating around in muck for 45 minutes. they put the young children inside the refrigerator. >> reporter: call centers like this one in philadelphia are trying to put the families in touch, but communications are difficult. >> we direly need help. this is for real. this is help. >> this morning, relief

in the meantime, the people of tacloban city search for food and water and for missing loved ones. andrew stevens, tacloban city, central philippines. >> aid agencies are mobilizing to help the victims of the typhoon. to find out how you can help go to cnn.com/impact. >>> a grand jury in new york has indicted 11 people in connection with the violent confrontation between an suv driver and a swarm of bikers. among those indicted is a police detective who was off duty and riding with the bikers back in september, september 29. the bikers are accused of dragging the suv driver out of his vehicle and beating him in front of his wife and 2-year-old daughter. >>> a utah doctor is facing 15 years to life for killing his wife. the jury came back with a guilty verdict in the middle of the night. jean casarez was in the courtroom and has this reaction from the doctor's children who pushed for years for his conviction. >>> we, the jury, having reviewed the evidence of the testimony in the case find the defendant as to count one, murder, guilty. [ shouts ] >> as to count two, obstruction of ju

a at prison in tacloban city, the -- at a prison, in tacloban city, the prisoners are threatening a masst because the prison has run out of supplies. >>> a woman from richmond found out her uncle died in the typhoon. >> it's devastating. i think my dad is in denial. just to hear everything that's going on, you feel so helpless here. >> cheryl tiu learned her uncle stayed behind in his tacloban city home and he drowned. he's one of thousands believed to have perished in one of the worse typhoons in history. tiu says communication with family has been spotty. she's getting some information from facebook. she says there's no power around the mood is becoming more desperate in the typhoon zone. she also says there's nowhere to take her uncle's body. >> all of the funeral homes are destroyed of they want to put him in a mass grave. my cousin doesn't want to. i don't blame her. that's her dad. >> family is hoping to fly into tacloban city to do what they can to help out. >>> meanwhile, pearls wants nonperishable food and health care supplies to send over to the philippines. donations can be ma

tacloban is one of the worth hit areas. survivors are flocking to the city's airport hoping to travel on elsewhere. this man came from cebu looking for family members. >> deadar alive, i need to see them. i'm left with nothing. it's difficult, so difficult, especially since i wasn't here, i couldn't help them. >> security has detear 80ed affecting residents amounted aid workers. the army is out in force trying to control reports of gunman and fear amongst the population. >> people knock on doors at night and some are robbers, so it's very worrying. we're mostly women and elderly in the house. we're very scared. >> we have the latest. >> all this 63-year-old wants that to do is sleep. he hasn't been able to do that. his home was destroyed. he lost 40 members of his family that day. he may have survived the storm, but still lives in fear for his life. >> how many of us are left? and now this, something else might take our lives. people coming into our houses and if you fight back, they'll kill you. what about allies? so few of us left as it is. are they going to

survivors in tacloban city are lining up for miles waiting for a flight out. >> the goal our family to leave the city so that we can start a new life. >> reporter: a massive international relief effort is under way. communication is difficult so teams of experts like this one from the united states are traveling to devastated areas to assess the situation. >> we provide medical aid, search-and-rescue, and assessments in communities that we can better inform the government and military what's needed. >> reporter: while some supplies are arriving, there is still much more that is needed. marlie hall for cbs news. >>> the mayor of tacloban rode out the storm in a ceiling. this used to be the family's beach resort just a shell left now. storm surge crumpled the building's 6" concrete walls as waves hit the roof. when the water started rising, the mayor and his family climbed to the ceiling space. >> we have to go all the way in there where -- we climbed all the way up here, here, no, we had to move over there. >> reporter: up here? >> over there. almost to the ceiling here. >> amazing. peo

survivors in tacloban city are lining up for miles waiting for a flight out. >> the goal of our family, to leave the city so that we can start a new life. >> reporter: a massive international relief effort is under way. communication is difficult so teams of experts like this one from the united states are traveling to devastated areas to assess the situation. >> we provide medical aid, search-and-rescue and assessments in communities that we can better inform the government and military what's needed. >> reporter: while some supplies are arriving, there's still much more that is needed. the security situation is also getting worse. eight people were crushed to death when looters stormed a rice warehouse looking for food. cate caugiran, kpix 5. >> the people of tacloban had feared their mayor may have been killed in the storm. but he and his family survived by hiding in the ceiling of their home. the water started rising and the mayor had no choice to climb into the ceiling space. >> water was going up. so we had to go all the way in there climbed all the way up here. here. no. we had

no aid can be delivered on the ground to the tacloban city airport because there is no power to light runways. no power means no aid can arrive at this time at night. roads are impassable because of debris and fallen trees. that is all amounting to a desperate situation because the survivors of this typhoon are waiting for help to arrive. it's now four days on. they're getting increasingly angry and frustrated and have told cnn what they are experiencing is worse than hell. wolf, back to you. >> cristie lu stout, thank you. people are desperate for fuel. the government isset is standing limits on how much people can buy. some have been lining up at a gas station for more than a day just to get a gallon of gasoline. our affiliate abscbn has more. >> this is one of the smaller streets. even here, you can see the complete disarray the town is in at the moment. you see business establishments, hospitals, their homes big or small, either severely damaged or completely destroyed. you'll ehour lines like these snapped like twigs or scattered in the middle of the street making it difficult fo

the city tacloban has been flattened by typhoon haiyan. wayne hay is at the airport. marga ortigas is in cebu - reports of people using guns to get aid. first, craig leeson in cebu, on how international aid is not arriving fast enough for some >> reporter: they lumbered into cebu air force base delivering with precision supplies. those that couldn't walk were carried - the sick, the old, and those that wanted to escape the disaster. >> bodies are on the road. nobody is picking them up. >> reporter: the injured and sick were taken to a military hospital. for many here the horror of losing their families outweighed the pain of their injuries. this woman was struck by her roof as it collapsed in the storm. she managed to crawl out with her daughters, after it passed. they were among the lucky ones. >> we survived. >> the doctors are work around the clock, overwhelmed by the volume of injured. every now and then a ray of hope. >> today we have a spine and pell -- pell vic fracture, mostly trauma injuries. we have pregnant women coming in >> the c130s are loaded with relie

this is one showing tacloban city in the philippines before the typhoon.and, colorful buildings along the coast. check this out. this is what it looks like today. >> oh, my gosh. >> muddy, lifeless, nearly every one of the buildings gone. even the sea is brown. >> five days after typhoon haiyan struck, the delivery of relief supplies is speeding up. but tacloban city is one of the most desperate places on earth. filtering water through t-shirts. aid ships from the u.s. and elsewhere are on the way, but the need is enormous. more cargo ships are arriving at the airport where thousands are gathering. abc's terry moran was there. >> reporter: this was the waiting area of tacloban's airport. you can see the storm surge tore the place apart. believe it or not, this is one of the only places in the city that is still functioning. this is where people want to get to because this is where you can get out. >> the confirmed death toll is under 2,000, but it's feared to be much higher. today many bodies will be buried in mass graves. we have learned that two american

relief slowly making its way into tacloban city.ris lines the roadways and the area littered with bodies as survivors wait helpless le. >> from a distance, you can see people floating on the sea because they are surrounded by water. >> reporter: this bay area resident happened to be in the philippines when the storm hit. she felt its power from 400 miles away. >> whistling. you could hear the whistle of the wind and that was really something very scary because if your house is not strong enough or if you're just standing on the street, you would be blown out. >> reporter: here in the bay area help is coming. >> goes to the people. >> reporter: donations are piling up so community organizations and leaders launched task force haiyan in san francisco yesterday as part of the national alliance for filipino concerns, or nafcon which already has collected $100,000 for victims. >> to gather as much money as possible. it's the fastest way to get money to the area. >> reporter: the group says the donations will be used and distributed respo

you actually live in tacloban city, right, when you were little? you visited there just a few years ago. is there any way you can describe to us, you know, this city before the storm? because we're seeing all this devastation, but most of us never saw what this really looked like prior to this. >> oh, yeah. it was different when i was living there. i was living there in '92 and '93. i went back recently for my mom's 75th birthday. it's different. i was really excited when they saw there was a mcdonald's opening, but i heard the mcdonald's was destroyed because it's next to water. it was a growing city. it was growing. they had stoplights. to me, it was home. my sister graduated from high school there. i went to school there in elementary school. everyone is friendly. it's just an amazing city. it's lively, a lot of different festivals there and home to so much of my family. it's just -- it's devastating to see what it looks like right now. especially the airport. it's just -- it amazes me how standing on the tarmac, getting ready to board the plane,

official who visited the city of tacloban says the destruction is on a massive scale - similar to the aftermath of the 2004 indian ocean tsunami. tenses of thousands of homes have been destroyed and many don't have access to clean food and water. we go to the city now, and what was witnessed the moment the typhoon struck. >> i could see roofs blown away and a matter of 10 minutes the water started going up quickly all the way to the second floor where we were in. we were trapped. some of the hotel guests that were also with us there started to go up in the same area. we were stuck and had nowhere else to go. we broke in a small stock room where all the stocks of water and stuff were in there, so we broke in and managed to get out - get in, but the water was still going up. so me and my coalition climbed up to the -- coalition climbed up to the roof, ready to jump to the water, and managed to find massive empty gallons of that we could old on to in case we had to jump. we were holding on to the ceiling. the whole roof was blown away. that's when we knew the eye of the storm was above u

i'm at tacloban city airport. the first plane has actually just landed just a couple of minutes ago. you can see behind me, there are a couple of hundred, 200, 300 people here. they have been -- they have either been sleeping here all night, camping here all night, or have come through during the dark hours. as you can see, this place is just a shell of what it was. we came through this airport about 12 hours ahead of the storm. it is unrecognizable. the ceiling's gone, all the walls are blown out. there's masonry walls down and right around the car park outside here, i don't know if you can see it, but it's just debris really everywhere. this is actually, though, now a functioning airport. the marines who arrived for the first time yesterday are going to be in here actually turning this into a 24-hour operation. for that you need runway lights, you also need radar. we're going to get both of those in the very, very near future. meanwhile, people are also using this as a place to get relief supplies, the stuff tha

he's done incredible reporting from the city of tacloban. he was in a hotel and helped rescue a family. here's his dramatic account. >> this is what the of center of a typhoon looks like, winds slamming into a city. a white haze of screaming noise smashing windows, tearing metal, water and flying debris. just minutes after we had he finished our line of shots telling headquarters we were moving to safer ground, the camera man brad shot this in the place we just left. >> okay, guys. i think we can wrap it up. >> as the destruction there continued, a floor below terrified residents huddled together finding protection against the flying spray and mind numbing noise, some praying for their safety. we're sheltering in the corridor. it's a relatively secure area i think where we are is a very substantial hotel. we are away from windows. but all around us, you hear the sounds of windows breaking and large objects crashing to the floor. and under foot, it is now just eight deluge. if you look behind me, i don't know if you can see it, the staircase b

cnn's andrew stevens is in the coastal city of tacloban in the philippines. scaping damage. the destruction caused by the super typhoon haiyan is everywhere. it has left a city cutoff from the rest of the country. its people increasingly desperate. roads are still impassable. communications are down. food and water are becoming scarce and reports of looting are widespread. it is impossible at this stage to estimate the cost of human life. we have seen bodies on the streets and we have seen bodies washing up on the beaches. the government can only say the number of deaths can be high. it is estimated that 1 million people live along the low-lying coastline, most of them in rough built shacks. they would not have survived the storm surge, a huge five-meter wall of water, spread across the city at the height of the storm at devastating speed. the water receded as quickly as it came leaving a trail of destruction. people have been warned to evacuate, but not everybody took the advice. the priority here now is to clear the road to the airport so relief supplies can

there in tacloban city.astating, was it must be so much worse at night without food and water and shelter and electricity. >> reporter: absolutely. i mean, where we're standing, victor, if you look behind me, we've lit up with the car lights, just a bit of debris. just 10, 20 yards down the road. but that goes right back for another half mile to the commercial center, which has been the scene of most of the looting, understandably, over shops there. a lot of looting going on, particularly yesterday. there's not so much to take anymore. most of the stuff has now been gone. i've been hearing reports that houses have been entered by gangs, looking for food, for whatever. i haven't been able to confirm that. and certainly yesterday when we were there, we were walking around and saw a lot of looting. we were speaking to a lot of people. there was never a sense of tension, never a sense of people turning on each other, but as you say, nightfall has no power here whatsoever. and this you've got a generator. you loo

you may find some of the images disturbing. >> reporter: tacloban city. survivors call it ground zero. the old coast road, a route rubble for mile after mile. entire neighborhoods washed away. tens of thousands of families lived around busy marketplaces and back streets. now parents scavenge for food. there's no power, no phone signal, no internet, no other way to send a message. the local market place, one of the worst affected areas in tacloban, all these shops and houses made of wood, now a pile of tangled timber. nothing here stood a chance just 100 meters from sea. there were hundreds fishermens' huts here. now only the stilts they stood on are left, snapped off by wind and waves. the dead float in the sea which once gave them a living and offered a future. raya al massira, eight months pregnant, shows me the house, one of the few made of concrete that her father had sheltered in. >> we were not able to save our father. it's very sad. we were in the house because it's big. >> reporter: they were trusting this house because it was big but when the wat

andrew stephens reports from the hard hit city of tacloban. >> more misery on the ground as some relief efforts are halted overnight when yet another storm hit the devastated city of tacloban. the strongest typhoon on record struck days ago, leaving behind a humanitarian crisis of unprecedented scope. >> i am the only survivor of the family and i want to know if they are still alive. >> from the sky, miles of destruction as far as the eye can see. while on the ground, rows of lifeless bodies. >> only one missing is my eldest daughter. i hope she's alive. >> a church chapel now filled with the dead. inside a mother weeps over the loss of her son. >> i've experienced a lot of typhoon, but this is the worst thing. >> the living cover their noses and mouths because the stench is unbearable. as they search for their loved ones, a young student cries for her mother. >> translator: i still hear in tacloban, and i'm still alive. hundreds of thousands are now fighting for survival. >> i must go out of this city. >> the few hospitals still functioning are overwhelmed. leaving the injured with now

so the situation in tacloban city has gone from desperate to danger riis and that's why the region has been declared an emergency. there's one good piece of news. a 21-year-old mother gave birth to a baby at the airport in tacloban, and by all accounts this is a miracle baby. the mother survived the storm by swimming and clinging to a post until she found her way to the airport. an amazing story in the middle of this disaster. anne-marie? >> it is. even under desperate conditions, life goes on. barnaby lo on the island. thank you so much. at the same time some families here in the united states are waiting to hear from loved ones who were caught in the storm. susan mcginnis is in washington. susan, good morning. >> anne-marie, good morning. the president released a statement last night saying he and the first lady are deeply saddened by the loss of life but saying that the people of the philippines share a deep resiliency. meanwhile the storm is having an impact on communities across the country. in los angeles, home to the largest filipino population in the united states, a call to pr

andrew stevens and his crew rode that storm out at a hotel in the ravaged city of tacloban. >> reporter: it struck with terrifying and deadly force. the aftermath, shattered landscape. this was home to thousands. it was not the wind that did it, it was the storm surge, reports of a five meter wall of water that engulfed the coastal strip and spread through the city. everywhere the cnn crew was sheltering, about a kilometer from the shoreline, the surge was waist deep and powerful. all around us you hear the sounds of windows breaking. you hear the sounds of large objects falling and crashing to the floor. and under foot, it is now just a deluge. if you look behind me the staircase behind me is now basically a waterfall. but that didn't compare with what happened here. the storm surge was the most destructive part of this typhoon. we're about 100 meters or so from the water. you can see the damage caused. these houses, these are all rough built houses, completely flattened along the shore. thousands of people live along a stretch of several kilometers. you can see behind me just how bad

undertaken by the without borders is to re-establish an internet collection at the hospital in the city taclobana city worst hit in the philippines so medical teams can communicate with doctors on the ground. e organization is to restore telecommunication services, a vital tool in coordinating relief efforts. and so, they set up emergency centers using satellite communications equipment that can be used by the philippine government, u.n. agencies and humanitarian organizations working at the scene. telecoms without borders is also working with local telecommunications companies to set up free calling locations in the hardest hit areas, left cut off from the rest of the world. it should help thousands of survivors contact their loved ones and recharge their mobile phones. telecom's operators in the philippines are working with foreign groups to try and get mobile phone networks up and running in the most devastated areas. as is the case last year when the philippine was hit by another typhoon last year. to help get communication services back in action. "washington post" columnist is under fire f

. >> people have been streaming into the airport here in tacloban city on monday as the military flights from areas such as the capital manila resumed, bringing in crucial aid for the people badly affected by the huge storm that has left this city, this area, in tatters. people have been coming here since first light trying to get their hands on items - food, water and something that they can use to build a shelter. most buildings in tacloban were completely destroyed by the storm or substantially damaged. a lot of the people who have been coming here want to leave. their homes have been destroyed or damaged and they want to get out of the area because there's nothing here for them. the flights, military flights that have been taking people away to nearby cebu or the capital city manila. people are saying they are not getting enough help in the city, not getting enough supplies in tacloban. one of the things the military will need to do is bring in body bags - so many dead and missing. a substantial search for the bodies, and for the missing has not really begun. there are bodies lying o

and this is not just at tacloban city. this is everywhere this typhoon has affected. i mean, we went to the north, and we were in a van moving, and when we stopped, people, it was just this mob of people who went up to our van, they rushed to our van, and they were just trying to open the door of our van and trying to open the window of our van, just desperate for food and water. i gave them some. obviously, i didn't have enough. so we ran and they chased us. they tried to chase us. that's how desperate the situation is. eight or nine days is a very long time to wait if you've got nothing to eat and nothing to drink. but i do understand the sentiment of these people, but i also do understand that this is very overwhelming for the filipino government, even though we're used to disasters, this is a disaster of a whole different level, really. >>> in syria, a deadly bombing targeted sources loyal to the assad regime. a british human rights group said 31 syrian troops including three generals were killed in the attacks near damascus. the incident coincides with a major go

debris lines the roadways and tacloban city littered with bodies. >> from the distance you can see people floating on the sea because they are surrounded by water. >> reporter: she was in the country when the storm hit. she says she felt its power from 400 miles away. >> whistling. you could hear the whistle of the wind. and that was really something very scary because if your house is not strong enough or if you're just standing in the street, no, you will be flattened. >> reporter: bay area aid organizations say help is on the way. in san francisco, city and community leaders launched task force haiyan. >> the main focus of this campaign is to gather as much money as possible. it's the fashionest and most effective efficient way of getting aid to the philippines. >> reporter: the purpose, get supplies and aid directly to the victims. >> often the money doesn't get to the ground where it does the most good. the dollar also get there much more immediately. >> in honor of our community of philippines no in the bay area, which is very strong, we are going to continue working with all of the

more and more aid is arrives in tacloban, the city hardest hit by the storm. the airport is barricaded, the families are increasingly desperate. >> we need help. we need help very badly. >> there is looting, and police in tacloban say they have now restored order. but the mayor is calling on people to leave the city because there is so little food or water, just not much there for them. well, the airport in tacloban was mostly destroyed by the typhoon. but flights are taking off from manila, one arriving at san francisco airport. the bay area residents are grateful for the return of their loved ones. wom one woman's electricity was knocked out, but the damage was minimal. >> in tacloban, there was one place wiped out. and the place, you can see there is nothing left behind. >> we prayed that people might -- of course, being hungry, they might rob and kill each other or something like that. >> bay area residents are also booking flights to the philippines so they can take food and aid to the survivors. >>> and a bay area researcher from the academy of sciences i

this was tacloban, a city of 220,000 before the storm. that's the convention center there on the shore. after the typhoon, the convention center was just about the only building still standing. seth doane is in tacloban. >> reporter: four days after the typhoon flattened this port city, many bodies still lay uncollected on the side of the road wrapped in cloth. increasingly desperate survivors are scavenging for food. children begged for water from any passing vehicles. while a massive international relief effort is under way, there is little evidence of it on the ground. tacloban's airport is open but badly damaged. no power means the planes can't land at night and aid workers are struggling to get supplies in. that didn't stop hundreds of survivors who rushed to the ruined airport looking for food. others lined up, hoping to be evacuated. by afternoon, the lines stretched three miles long. bodies pulled from the rubble were lined up neatly. the mortuaries are already overflowing. the situation grew more desperate by the hour. this mother

water, electricity and limited communication in the form of mobile phone signals in areas like tacloban city. so there has been a bit of a bottle neck in cebu, and in tacloban airport as well, getting it from these areas into the outlying places where the storms strike, but that also seems to be speeding up one week after the storm. still there are areas that have not seen any outside assistance. >> absolutely. the government has come under criticism, hasn't it for what some see as a slow response. on the other hand everyone recognises that this is a massive catastrophe. >> yes, the biggest storm possibly to strike land, so no one is under illusions in this was a massive disaster, difficult for any country to handle of the the philippines is constantly facing natural disasters - vol cano, typhoons - averaging 20 typhoons a year, earthquakes as well. they should have systems in place. i think that is the feeling from both nongovernment organizations and other governments around the world - that perhaps the philippines does not have the systems in place to immediately get help on the ground af

too an ongoing event on campus trying to collect clothes and other necessities for the people in tacloban city. here in the east bay, if you do want to donate, we know these students here will be here until 2:30 this afternoon. they say they will also be back again tomorrow morning. and they plan to send everything they have collected by the end of the week. reporting live in hayward, cate caugiran, kpix 5. >> thank you. >>> and kpix 5 is partnering with the red cross to raise money for the relief effort. we'll have a phone bank tomorrow from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. details on how to help right now, you can go to our website, kpix.com/donate. >>> some breaking news now. former oakland raiders tight end todd christiansen has died. the two-time super bowl champion passed away at a utah hospital this morning. the byu graduate was drafted into the nfl by the cowboys but his career took off in 1982 when he joined the raiders. he had liver disease and other illnesses in recent years. he was 57. >>> rohnert police are looking for the driver that caused a fiery crash and left confused gamblers in the dark. t

leaders in hard hit tacloban city has death toll of 500.ly injured people still do not have access to the medical care they need. >> translator: my daughter's wounds are open and bad and needs to be operated on but cannot be transferred because there is no transportation. >> reporter: no transportation because the storm smashed cars and trashed roads. power is cutoff to many areas and communication lines are still down making it impossible to get in touch with family. >> translator: please tell my family i'm all life. >> reporter: that includes american tourists. >> not a good idea to be here and the people that are here, relief will be here and i got to go tell my family i'm alive and there is no communication here at all. >> reporter: starting today soldiers are clearing paths through the debris so relief can get to the areas that need it most and estimate 2 1/2 million people need food, for many the situation is desperate. >> translator: i heard looters killed of 7 mall security guards. >> reporter: the mayor of tacloban said people need

tremendous, and there are, of course, other cities, but not that has been hit, not as badly at tacloban city>> is there resilients in your country? have you been building in resilience so you can handal punk like this in a time of the history of the world where it looks like we have to be ready for worse and worse storms. >> i think the filipino people have been re salient. resilient. we've experienced storms time and time again. we've suffered an earthquake where 256 people who perished in that earthquake, quite a number of buildings were destroyed. so, the filipino people have undergone unfortunate experiences over the years. they managed to get up and recover from the set backs brought about by this natural disasters. and this is one of the traits of the filipino people that i'm sure will enable us to recover and get back. it will take time. and the other thing is the filipino spirit where people work together, helping those who have suffered those who have been victims of natural disasters. >> the philippines are an association of island states, and right now there is an international gl

many of the dead are believed to be in tacloban, the city we heard about earlier. oban was once a vibrant port of over 200,000 residents, now completely leveled, its streets littered with bodies. the u.s. militaries's assisting with relief efforts, but aid groups describe being completely overwhelmed by the need. when haiyan came ashore, it arrived with sustained winds of 195 miles per hour and a 20-foot storm surge. in hurricane rankings, this was a category 5. the size of the storm put into perspective by the red cross places the typhoon over a map of the entire continental united states. it's a reminder of how vulnerable anyone living near water is, particularly island nations like the philippines, and no one knows that better than those countries themselves, who are quickly becoming the most powerful, proactive and progressive voices in confronting climate change. in fact, just today, at the u.n. climate talks in warsaw, poland, the delegate from the philippines sanio offered up words to the world. >> the devastation is staggering. i struggle to find words even

he said 30% of communications has been restored to tacloban city. this comes in the face of growing criticism from those areas that they simply are not getting any aid, desperately needed food, water, shelter, medicine, isn't getting through. to be fair logistics are a nightmare. many of the roads down there remain blocked and the security situation remains difficult after some looting, although extra police and soldiers have been sent in to try to stabilize the situation. on top of that rescue teams have still to reach four days on some of the more remote areas, some of the more badly affected areas down there. now the uss washington is on its way with aircraft, with much needed supplies. more than 20 other countries have said that they too will send aid and many, many ngos are lining up to get supplies in there. but not nearly quick enough for the tens of thousands of people who are affected and are in desperate need, mara. >> all right. thanks, ian. as we reported this storm was the most powerful ever recorded on earth measuring some 370 miles wi

government of the philippines go with support from dod got the p water turned back on in the city of tacloban, restoring clean water to roughly 200,000 people in that town. that was a major accomplishment. dod transported more than 1,000 metric tons of relief commodities to communities throughout the affected areas.s and yousaid's food for peace eae program in partnership with thei governmentp and the world food program has provided really the backbone of support to a joint food response that so far has fed 1.9 million people. going forward, we are seeing a range of different needs.pl i'll go through those quickly and turn it over for questions.y on logistics, that will remain t challenge. that's been a majoric challenges i think everyone's aware. be we've seen real progress clearing blocked roads, we restoration of airport services and notably in the past few n days, restoration of ferry stort services to enable much greater scale of aid to reach affected h areas. we are seeing improvements here. but it still will remain a majoo focus. food will remain a major focus. we anticipate 2.5 millio

. >> the tacloban city deposit told us anybody looking for a missing relative will be better served trying the department of social welfare, the development and national agency. the office sent us to a distribution point where there's a comprehensive list of missing and the dead that can be cross referreded. >> we find no list exists. another priority continues to be recovery and disposal of bodies. sex, height, age are noted before they are taken away. families have to grieve for loved ones that have disappeared. >> this man has had a lead. someone rang to say they had the boy, only to demand money. a blind alley, but carl has not given up. >> when you stumble you don't cry. you pick yourself up and keep on running. with these memories in my mind right now, i really do hope that we can find him. >> so the poster campaign goes on. one family in the midst of a national calamity hoping to find the answers they need. >> coal is the most polluting of fossil fuels and provides 40% of electricity needs of the world. poland depends on it. it's been hosting the climate change talks. we went down a

. >> pam: tacloban's airport is just 14 miles from the city center. on monday it took six hours >> pam: for an aid vehicle to make its way through the debris on the road. return to index >> pam: here in the bay area community and civic leaders join together to launch. task-force-haiyan.it is part >> pam: of a national grass roots effort to coordinate urgent disaster relief to thousands of people in the philippines impacted by recent the typhoon.the national alliance for filipino concerns is spear heading the local effort.two members of the organization say they both have not heard from their loved ones since the typhoon slammed into philippine islands >> still searching for a lot of family especially when there where there is no help coming and. coming in.. >> pam: the bay area task force haiyan hopes to provide that much needed help for those trying survive the aftermath of the powerful storm.we will hear how the organization plans >> pam: and if you'd like to help the typhoon relief effort. visit our web page -- kron-4 dot com. we've posted links to

now in tacloban city people have started looting there is justxd this sense of anarchy and lawlessnessthat has surrounded this immediate aftermath of the typhoon. >> reporter: looters raided the local pharmacy and grocery stores in palo leytee where everyone is fending for themselves. >> we're helpless. we don't have water any more, we don't have food. >> reporter: jeff as you mentioned, that team of about 90 u.s. troops from the base of japan have now landed in the philippines to assist with search-and-rescue. this as the typhoon makes landfall in vietnam as a category 1 storm. >> jeff: seth doane, thank you. the first round of international talks ended in reigning iran's nuclear program ended if geneva early today without an agreement. secretary of state john kerry defended the effort to reach a deal with iran while also telling israel and others that the u.s. is not letting its guard down. >> we are not blind and i don't think we're stupid. i think we have a pretty strong sense of how to measure whether or not we are acting in the interests of our country and of the globe and partic

bit whitaker talked with an american storm chaser who rode out the storm in tacloban city which was all but wiped off the map by the massive typhoon. >> reporter: is this the worst you've ever been through? >> absolutely. like without a doubt. >> reporter: when you say intense, describe it for me. >> picture the downtownery of the city inside a tornado for an hour. i mean that's what it was like. just mayhem. but that was only the first part. as the center passed the south of the city, the bay just rose up and swept across the downtown area. that was the storm surge, and it came up very suddenly. >> we saw the pictures of you saving people on the mattresses. >> the people in the first floor rooms were caught by surprise. so they were in these rooms with the water rising, like death traps essentially. they smashed the windows and were screaming for help. when you see something like that, you think they're going to die, you don't think about that. you just go. >> i've seen the devastation in the aftermath and it looks like a bomb went off. >> it's awful. there's something inside of you wi

it is difficult, because only tacloban city is the one you can make communication with.he world food program is here. this area - it's a few hours - but people are forced to walk, wounded, trying to get to the town, looking for any help they can. the situation is very, very desperate. >> our team describing a scene of devastation, thousands may be dead in the wake of typhoon haiyan. >> months ever seizing power in the central african republic, seleka rebelsar facing another attack. in a third and final part of the eerz on the for -- series on the forgotten crisis, we have a report from bua. >> reporter: soldiers arrive too late. most of the people that used to live in the village are hiding in the bush. locals say members of seleka, who are part of the government forces, targeted them as they search for a group of rebels, alling themselves anti-balika. >> translation: after burning our houses they took our cows and slit their throats. >> reporter: local commanders say it was a bushfire, not them that burnt the village. they showed us where anti-seleka fighters allegedly

the mayor of tacloban, one of the hardest-hit cities, is urging residents to leave. e to go anywhere else. nick payton walsh is there in tacloban tonight or this morning, of course, for you, nick. nick, 600,000 people homeless, no place to go. how concerning is the security situation there? when we hear about stampedes of people just to get rice. >> reporter: well, certainly i think people are wrapped up in the fear of lawlessness here in tacloban in the city yesterday i heard stories, fears of sexual assaults, attacks even on children in some ways. no evidence to back that up that we saw. but that's consuming people, i think, a sense of fear of what criminals may be up to or even some rebel militia groups that are roaming in this particular part of the world. and we encountered some of those fears ourselves when we ventured out from this city of tacloban south to try to get an idea of the level of devastation. we drove south away from storm haiyan's epi center to answer the question how far has the destruction spread. it took about 40 kilometers before life breathed

you are looking at pictures from tacloban. a city of 220,000 people.have seen images like this in japan after the tsunami and sri lanka after the tsunami there. but the images are hard to imagine and adjust your eye to. it takes a while to understand what you are looking at. just the block after block of devastation and that storm surge which carried with it so much debris, so much wood, corrigated tin from people's homes. we don't know the number of fatalities. the focus is on the living and meeting their needs and getting medical care to those who have been injured by debris in that flood water and by the collapsing buildings. i want to talk to the mayor of tacloban who we spoke to in our previous hour. he survived by having to climb on to his roof. this is my conversation with the mayor. mr. mayor from everything i have heard you are very lucky to be alive. i understand you at one point had to punch holes and climb on to the roof of your house. what happened? >> actually it wasn't the house. it was beside my house. there was a big ballroom. and the