that s being rushed in. earlier, thomas perry from care international spoke with zain asher on the phone from the capital city of port vila. listen. the best thing people can do is to support the appeals for agencies like care because clearly this is going to take an enormous effort over the coming weeks and months. i mean i was listening to ivan s report. i guess the casing is it s very true that it s so hard to get out and to get any information out from the northern and southern provinces at this point. we hope to have in the next few minutes one of the members, a couple members of our team on a flight to the salon in the south. and hopefully they will be able to give us some sense of what happened there. really at this point there is not a lot of information. and it s certainly deeply concerning because those islands
tropical cyclone pam left a trail of destruction and desperation across the south pacific islands. and now thousands of people are without homes, without clean water, and without sanitation. officials there are struggling to assess the damage especially in remote areas. in the meantime international aid is being rushed in. our senior international correspondent, ivan watson is, on the grown in vanuatu. earlier he spoke with our john vause about the conditions on that island. reporter: there s certainly thousands of people whose homes have either been destroyed or seriously damaged around the capital here port vila. i m overlooking a valley where a great majority of trees have been snapped or denuded. by the roar winds that ripped through record winds that ripped through friday nightment i m next to a church that more than 100 used as a temporary