she s covered the kids as best she can. now she searches for her three other children. she doesn t believe they survived the storm. where will you sleep tonight? here in the street. anywhere. i don t know where i go. in tacloban, there isn t any place to go. juanita is living in a makeshift shelter. his wife gina and daughter are covered with sacks nearby. i really want somebody to collect their bodies, he says. i want to know where they re taken so i can light a candle for them. he cooks some rice and noodles for his neighbors. one of the men tells us he wants to call his mother in manila. he s desperate to tell her he and his daughter survived though his wife and two other children are dead. we dial her number on a
the wounded and sick wait for treatment but the hospital has no electricity and few supplies. we are admitting them as much as we can. because we cannot refuse them. it s already too late for this young mother tracradling h dead child in her arms. i m going crazy, she says. i want to go back home. home is not an option for her. it s not an option for many in this broken city. and nick hayden walsh joins me now. nick, in terms of the relief effort what are you seeing? because when you go out in these neighborhoods, i haven t seen much of a relief effort. reporter: indeed. every morning you see this wave of planes coming in but they re limited capacity what they can do. chopping down a tree, rearranging the trash here. we ve seen the scale of destruction here, quite a monumental challenge ahead. the real issue i think for many people in the next coming days
typhoons based around here. they re gone. they re destroyed. they re basically starting from scratch. the local police force, a lot of them according to the mayor a lot of them didn t show up in the wake of this, obviously they had their own issues to worry about, their own families to take care of. i don t think pictures, as many different pictures as we take, it s really hard to get in that small little camera lens this kind of the scope of the devastation, even though it s not as big as a tsunami in 2004 as we saw in sri lanka. in this area though it s total. it s complete particularly on the waterfront area where a lot of the shanty towns are. that is absolutely flattened. the question, the real question here is, how many people actually heeded the advice of the authorities to get out, to evacuate before this hit? now i ve been hearing a lot of of stories about people sending out their wives and children and then staying back at their house
washington. i ve been a lincoln man all my life. i put lincoln at the top. i think that i would, after having completed a film series that will be out in september on the history of the rose developmen roosevelts put him in there. what about jfk? i think it s an unfinished story. when he was killed i was ten years old. i was tragic. now i m working on a big history of vietnam. we don t know what he would have done, whether he would have gotten us out or in deeper. i ve got to leave it there. best of luck on the next project. anderson cooper reports live from the phillipines. good evening, everyone. i m anderson cooper live from tacloban airport in the philippines where five days after typhoon haiyan desperation
then the concern is and the difficulty is getting it from the airport out to some of these areas, even getting it a few blocks, though, would be a huge improvement. because as you re about to see, a couple blocks from here there is just nothing but misery. in tacloban, the misery is beyond meaning. this is your home? yes. this was my house. the first, she says, our house was one of the first to come down. she sought shelter from the storm surge in this bus with her husband and six children. she survived. they were swept away. and has anyone come to help you? no. i really want to see them, she says, even if it s just their bodies. she has found the body of her husband and shows us the bodies of three of her children.