Hello, welcome to Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Im morgan radford. A devastating weekend in the philippines as many as 10,000 people are feared dead. The u. S. Secretary of defense is ordering hep with relief as rescuers try to save families in flooded homes. Theres no electricity and communication is limited. We have this package from manila reporter as communications between villagers wiped out by the storm are reestablished a picture is emerging of total devastation. Then we have an estimate of 10,000 for the whole province of leyte reporter rescuers are trying to reach people in remote provinces in the wake of the storm. This is the moment when the storm hit tacloban, a city of more than 200,000 people. Monster winds whipped in from the coasts with gusts of 300 k hr. With it came flood water. People used mattresses to stay above the rising waters. I can feel electricity in the waters reporter this is the scene rescue crews are seeing as they reach isolated areas. A to
We begin tonight in the philippines are its been a devastating three days there, and the toll is staggering. Local leaders report 10,000 people may have died. U. S. Secretary of defense has now ordered the Pacific Command to help with relief. Rescuers are still trying to save families trapped in flooded homes. Theres no electricity, and no way of communicating. The winds have been among the strongest on record, measuring up to 190 miles an hour, with gust reaching 235 miles per hour. Lets now go to al jazeera craiglessson, the pictures have been devastating what are you hearing tonight . Well, thats right. As you said, total devastation here, and adjusting the province that copped the worse of this storm first up when it made land fall. Officials there now saying that the test toll is most likely to be about 10,000, and thats only in the areas that have been able to reach the reestablishing contact with villages further appealed. And one day they start report back and it is likely to b
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