underfoot, it is now just a dell yuj. if you look behind me, the staircase 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 a hundred meters or so and 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 it must have been. authorities had pleaded with people to leave. many did, but many stayed. we all tried to leave, but it was too late, i got separated when the water started rising. i don't know what happened to them, he tells me. the devastation leaving a trail of destruction. this is now a city on edge. no power. food and water running out and medical supplies almost gone. if hospital, we're told, is the only functioning medical facility in the city. they can't admit anymore patients. there's no room. just first aid in the most difficult of conditions

your hope of heaven, let it rest on the ground underfoot. the world is no better than its places.ts places at last are no better than their people while their people continue in them. when the people make dark the light within them, the world darkens. >> wendell berry, thank you for -- [ applause ] >>> the toxic trespasses of which wendell berry and his allies warn us afflict all creatures great and small -- from humans to the humblest bee. look at this film, "dance of the honeybee," narrated by berry's friend and fellow activist, bill mckibben. >> let's think about bees in a hive, they go out every day when the temperature is high enough. they're not like other farm animals. they're this weird wonderful cross between wild and domestic and they head out into the open world and they come back as it were, with reports about that world, you know, what it's like miles away. so one little bee yard some place is a kind of hub for understanding whole huge swath of territory. understanding whether it's being farmed well, or treated as kind of a monoculture. whether it's being saturated in

sounds of windows breaking, you hear the sounds of large objects falling, crashing to the floor, and underfoot, it is now just a deluge. if you look behind me, i don't know if you can see it, the staircase behind me is now basically a waterfall. then a torrent of black water began pouring into the hotel. the storm surge had begun. >> go upstairs. >> reporter: within a few minutes, it was at ground floor window level. a panicked family now trapped in their room smashed the window and screamed for help. we managed to get the mother across to safety and it immediately became clear the cause of their panic. their daughter was severely disabled. storm chaser josh morgan and i went back across to get the terrified girl to safety. cnn producer tim schwartz helped rescue the rest of the family. the waters only rose a little higher. the height of the storm in fact had passed. two hours later, the winds had lost their lethal strength. our live position was a ruined shell. as we walked outside, it was immediately clear that so much of the city had suffered so much more than we had. i can say that the fam

and underfoot, it is now just a deluge. and if you look behind me, i don't know if you can see it, 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 past of this typhoon. we're about a hundred meters or so from the water here, and you can see the damage caused. these houses, these were all rough-built houses, completely flattened along the foreshore. thousands of people live along a stretch of several kilometers and you can see behind me, just how bad it must have been. authorities had pleaded with people to leave. many did, but many stayed. this man was searching for his father, his brothers, and his uncles, somewhere, he thinks, under this rubble. we all tried to leave, but it was too late. i got separated when the water started rising. i don't know what happened to them, he tells me. the devastation across the entire city of 200,000 people is widespread. winds upward of 250 kilometers an hour leaving a trail of destruction. t