promised effort. barbara, i know you just got off i believe the phone from general kennedy who s frustrated. what are you hearing? reporter: that s right, anderson. in the next several hours he s headed in your direction. the effort to get that ire air field up and running. he told me they expect to have nighttime operations beginning this evening your time in tacloban. that of course as you know better than anybody is going to be a huge help. the next big step, at least two amphibious war ships are on the way from japan. they will bring very specialized capability. they will have tracked vehicles. think of it as vehicles with like tank treads on them that will be able to move out into these remote areas, go right through the debris if need be and get supplies out to the distribution points in the most hard-hit areas. there ll also be more helicopters onboard these ships and more ability for water purification.
about 80% of them really get out. reporter: andrew stephens joins me now along with paula hancock and nick payton walsh. paula, you ve been here throughout the storm. how frustrated are you by the relief effort? have you seen much of a relief effort? increasingly frustrated. not just me, anderson. you walk around downtown tacloban, there s piling of rotting garbage, there s carcasses of animals, and there s no real evidence of organized recovery, organized relief going on. i saw a van which was handing out packages of three-day relief. that was perhaps for 50 people. there are thousands, tens of thousands of people who have been affected. they re still saying still walking up to us and saying we have no food. we need water. we need help. so at the moment, the frustration levels down there are extraordinarily high. and i don t sense they re still really getting a grip on making this problem as it should be
the power of the storm. here s a jeep that s been slammed into the house. then there s this truck that s been lifted up from somewhere and put on top of the jeep. and the smell of rot iting smell of decay is everywhere around here. there s a cow. yeah, a dead cow. and it looks like behind it there s the body of a person covered in a green cloth. and that s not an uncommon sight here unfortunately still five days into this storm. our andrew stephens went out with the mayor of tacloban. here s what he saw. in tacloban city, they re calling him the ghost. many people here thought that the city s mayor, alfred romaldez, had died in the typhoon. i was in that building, which is by the beach.
of the few groups that we saw actually removing bodies. but there are a lot of people out there. that s really why there s no accurate count of how many people have lost their lives here because there s been no concerted effort to retrieve those who have died. many of them, they re all still just out there laying where they fell. i want to bring in an american missionary. i talked to just before we went on air by the name of jon winn who lives here in tacloban who really escaped the storm surge with his life. i just want to warn you, the audio in this interview when we first started there was a c 130 coming in so it s a little bit loud but stick with it. here s john winn. john, explain what happened to you during the storm. the short of it is, we were in our house expecting of course strong wind and rain. but just a short time after the typhoon started we watched a
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