people on the edge of starvation. there s no real lethality here. but there are the very young at risk here. we re talking mothers already telling us they re having to feed their children dirty water, their children suffering from fevers. that s going to get worse as days go by. erin, there s a capacity problem here. and air strips simply trying to get planes in fast enough, the phillipine air force don t have enough to bring in enough aid and assistance. u.s. military trying to help them out too. but until we see convoys coming in by road, until we see that industrial scale of assistance, people are going to be counting the hours here to see exactly what the decay and the destruction is doing to health and the possibility of more loss of life, erin. nick payton walsh, thank you very much. of course to our anna kwan who is nearby as we said one of the first hit cities in sabu. still to come, a man spent a decade in a maximum security prison. a month ago on this program he said he w
you ve seen a lot of people, right, who still don t know where their family members are. reporter: yes, absolutely. the people who evacuate out of those hard-hit areas, many of them are congregating here at the sabu air field waiting for news. you have to remember that communications are completely down in so many of these islands. so these people just have not heard from their loved ones since that supertyphoon hit. these c 130 hercules that are picking up aid and delivering it and then bringing back people who have evacuated from these hard-hit towns, they are really the lifeline between these islands and the outside world. but definitely, a lot of the missing and there are thousands of them, many of them are presumed dead. and that is the frightening reality, erin. anna kwan, thank you very much reporting as we said from sabu. as anna has been saying, the big challenge aid can t get in in