able to happened during nighttime hour. as you can tell it s already made a dips. there s a lot more aid on the ground here at the airport in tacloban. these are actually boxes of medical supplies, looks like they re from germany. these are boxes, pallets full of boxes from usaid from the united states. these are plastic tarps, sheets that can be cut up by families, thousands of them. they can be used for shelter, which is critically important here for the people who have really no shelter from the elements whatsoever. the question is how quickly can this aid be distributed out to the communities that need it most. can it be distributed safely, efficiently, and quickly. that s the big holdup right now. the phillipine government on the local government here, even the federal government is very disorganized. there aren t the capabilities. they don t have trucks, there s a shortage of fuel. so how quickly this aid can get out there right now, that s the biggest challenge. all week long
difficulties. we all understand that. it s not an easy situation. the infrastructure is bad even in the best of times. but that man should not have died. there was no reason for that man to have died of essentially a broken leg. as you see on the ground, ivan, in tacloban, how are the efforts going to get the eight outside that s at the airport to other places? the fact that the clinic in tacloban at the airport days ago didn t have food and water and basic supplies, enough supplies according to doctors they talked to there, that s right at the airport. so this hospital is in town, they didn t have blood, is just is inexplicable and heart-breaking. how are things now today? reporter: well, at this one hospital which was destroyed, its operating rooms were destroyed, it s a private hospital the divine word hospital. it was a surgical team that came in from the department of health from another town. and they ve come in and
facilities were out at hospitals all throughout tacloban. but it s just stunning to me that this long into it on friday a man can die essentially from a broken leg because of a lack of supplies. and just the prioritizing of things the immediate aftermath of this i think is probably something that is going to have to be looked at in calmer times so that the next time that s what this is about. not only saving lives now, but the next time this happens, because it will happen again, what can we learn now about what s happening here that s going to change things the next time around. ivan, appreciate your reporting. nick payton walsh as well. we ll take a short break. when we come back we ll talk to somebody from a group i really like a lot, doctors without borders and their staff about the needs on the ground right now. we ll be right back.
so many extraordinary people. a lot of times on a story like this we ll put it together in kind of an essay format in a reporter s notebook. here s mine for this week. when everything else is taken away, broken and battered, stripped raw, bare, you see people as they really are. this week in tacloban, samar and cebu amidst the hunger and thirst, the chaos and confusion, we ve seen the best in the filipino people. their strength, their courage. i can t get it out of my mind. imagine the strength it takes for a mother to search alone for her missing kids. [ speaking foreign language ] the strength to sleep on the street near the body of your
untreated a week after the typhoon. ander son. fans the . and if there were facilities to get people on airplanes, to get them to other facilities lives could have been saved. nick you were in tacloban where lots of bodies have been collected, some still not collected but being gathered in the last few days. you ve seen the government come in there. change on the streets. talking about a lack of communication. what we saw one of the key things, the smell is still on the streets as you drive through. they ve put them together in this morgue. that s the beginning to try to get that process. let s take a look.