Different time. now all the that greets visitors is devastation. three days on since the storm itself, there are stilled abouties by the side of the road. now we can t show you the faces of these bodies, as it s just too graphic. you can still see the terror as the wave hit on the faces of these bodies. and they re still here three days on. some of them are crudely covered. others are just open and have blackened skin from the sun. now the officials say that they re looking after the living, which is what you would understand, but they have to get rid of the bodies. this is a health issue for those people living and trying to survive around here. the stench is overpowering. and of course they have to start considering disease. this is the tacloban convention center. we re told by the locals that a lot of people came in here to try to protect themselves from the storm. but, as you can see, the water reached the second story.
Decompositi decomposition, the water. reporter: i ve been speaking to the red cross about this. and that is their biggest fear, that there are still bodies everywhere. there are so many places that we haven t heard from. we don t know what s going on there, what sort of destruction s been caused up and down the coast. the red cross has been saying to me, bodies are still pretty much everywhere. we came from the airport yesterday. and we saw dozens of bodies. so that is the biggest fear. yes, there could be another wave. it s going to be difficult to establish for some time i suspect how many people we are talking about. it s important to remember, a lot of the residents of this area were told to evacuate before the storm came. they are used to severe weather here. many did heed those warnings, but many didn t, either. they didn t see a problem. but nobody, nobody thought about the damage, the devastation that would be caused by the storm
And the locals say anybody that was on the ground floor not expecting this storm surge simply didn t make it. many residents used this school as a shelter from the storm, but the water engulfed it. this resident says a lot of children died in here, only a few managed to survive. no one knows how many lost their lives. down the road, a public well is being put to use. right now we don t have enough water, even though we are not sure that it is clean and safe, we still drink for it because we need to survive. reporter: we see two trucks in two hours making their very slow way into the city at the heart of the devastation. many people are asking us why the bodies weren t removed. they said they have daily reminders of the hell they ve been through already. they don t need to see the bodies in the area where they
One city received a batch of canned food and rice sunday, but delivering aid to the many other remote communities is a huge challenge. communications is severed. the only functioning medical facility can t admit anymore patients. thousands break into grocery and hardware store, increasingly desperate for food and water. haiyan leaving an entire city on edge. and just watching that and watching some of the koshlcover paula hancocks was showing how horrible it was with the bodies and the stench, how bad do you think this is going to get? being how difficult it is to get aid, given the bodies and the e
Walking against the rising tide the hundreds of thousands fighting for survival after a historic superstorm. good evening. i m erin burnett. a plea for help. hundreds of thousands in the philippines desperately fighting to survive. they re searching for food and water, the basics needed to survive. in the aftermath of the devastation left by superstorm typhoon haiyan, here s what we know. as many as 10,000 are feared dead. honestly nobody knows right now. decomposing bodies are everywhere. people walking down the streets covering their faces because of the smell, in the fields, under water, bodies. more than 600,000 displaced after swaths of cities and towns were utterly destroyed. many still don t have any kind of communication or power making hunger grow. aid workers have been trying to get in emergency supplies including food and water and