Nine days after typhoon haiyan left parts of the country in ruins. Tens of thousands of victims are starting to get medical care as food and water is being dropped to isolated areas. Lets bring in craig leeson who is in tacloban. Is International Aid finally getting to the hard to reach places. It is starting to trickle through. We are seeing a lot of aid come in here at the air force base in cebu. Its piling in and being distributed to areas in need particularly tacloban in leyte, the epicentre of this disaster. But the challenge has been getting it from tacloban out into the the regions from there that are hard to reach. Many of them are still cut off. There is only power to four of the 30 provinces hit by the typhoon. There are difficulties that aid workers are still seeing that were there from day one. We travelled up to bantayan yesterday with a cargo shift, one of the first aid relief and witnessed the hunger of people as they crowded around the trucks of rice, trying to get food
Good morning, welcome to Al Jazeera America, im morgan radford. Relief efforts are picking up nine days after typhoon haiyan struck the philippines. More than 3,600 died. Those who survived are finally getting the help that they need. Food, water and medical supplies have started getting to areas that were completely cut off by the storm. The u. S. Military is now dropping food and water to survivors in the area. But more than 1,000 people are still missing. Some 4 Million People are homeless. For the latest we are going to talk about talk to craig leeson, who is standing by in the philippines. First lets tell you about an attack in afghanistan where more than 2,000 afghan elders will meet in kabul. Theyll vote on the future of u. S. Troops in afghanistan. The u. S. Is trying to hammer out an agreement to keep forces on the ground beyond 2014. That effort was dealt a blow on saturday after suicide bomb attack killed six people. Jane ferguson reports from kabul. It was an attack on the
Michelle bachelet and evelyn matthei. Michelle bachelet wants to fix the economy. Sparking in tripoli killed four. It came as thousands gathered in the capital after more than 43 protesters were killed by rebels. The mother of one of 19 firefighters that died in a fire is suing the state. Marcia mckee is seeking 36 million, thats for a claim against the city for the yarnell hill fire. Good evening, thank you for joining us. Joey chan is on assignment. You are watching american tonight the weekend edition, its a week since typhoon haiyan made landfall in the philippines, and the crisis is far from over. Typhoon haiyan was the strongest storm ever to hit that island nation, leaving mass destruction. Tens of thousands of people are homeless. Thousands are dead. America tonight is joey chan spoke to the mayor in a remote community. It felt as if we reached the end of the world. After hours of driving through debris and devastation we arrived at the end of cebu island, to a Tiny Community f
People are missing in the philippines. Its been a week since super typhoon haiyan ravage the the country. Food and medicine are arriving in the devastated communities, aids groups say they face huge challenges getting help to people in remote areas. U. S. Military say its rescued 3,000 people and delivered more than 100 tops of food, water and other supplies to hardest hit and isolated towns. International humanitarian groups are on the ground giving medical help to survivors. We turn to craig leeson at cebu. Hopefully you are there still. Do you feel like help is getting to the people who need it . Early Morning Light filters to the deck of the mv gemini6. It fails to make the sleeping crew. Theyve been up most of the night loading supplies for a rescue mission, bringing relief aid to a Remote Island of bantayan off the northern sip of cebu. It was one of a dozen islands to be decimated by typhoon haiyan. I can only imagine what the people have been experiencing, and other suffering,
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PHOENIX Arizona Supreme Court Justice Andrew Gould is leaving the bench after just over fopur years in that job.
In a news release Friday from the court, Gould, who had been a Yuma County Superior Court judge, did not cite a reason for leaving. He is only 57; judges and justices can serve until age 70.
Gould was one of two justices selected by Ducey in 2016 after the Republican-controlled Arizona Legislature agreed to expand the bench from five to seven. That appointment, along with John Lopez IV, who had been the state s solicitor general, gave the governor his second and third justices on the bench.