Evaluate job applicants. [ theme ] good morning and welcome to al Jazeera America. A glimmer of hope for survivors of typhoon haiyan. Philippines Officials Say all major roads damaged by the storm are passable. Its welcome news to relief and rescue workers who have been struggling to deliver aid since last weekend. Theres a sense of urgency to get supplies out fast as conditions are worsening across the battered country. In village after village families are begging for basic necessities some standing on the side of roads with signs saying, please help us, turning pleas for help into looting for food, water and medicine. Here is where the worst damage is in the central philippines the devastation stretches from leyte, to tacloban, and palay. Also to cebu. We have the littest on the latest so many suffering after typhoon haiyan slammed into the philippines. We can survive without the houses. We can sleep anywhere. We need food. Hundreds of thousands of people displaced by the storm are
Welcome to Al Jazeera America. Relief organizations and nations around the world are scrambling to help survivors of one of the largest storms to make landfall. Little aid is getting to the typhoon haiyan victims, especially those in remote locations. Time is running out. The Philippine Government says more than 2 Million People need aid. The death toll has climbed to 2200 people. Damaged roads and poor conditions at airports are complicating the system. Add to that relief and rescue efforts desperate pleas for help turning to looting for food, water and medicine. Lets look at where the devastation is. In the central philippines the destruction stretches from leyte to tacloban and palay. Craig leeson is in cebu with the latest. Reporter they lumbered into the cebu air force base with precision delivering precious cargo from the nightmare that is one of the worst natural disasters. Those that could not walk were carried the sick, the old and those that wanted to escape the disaster. Bod
Campaign in the middle east. The latest from the philippines, which has declared a state of National Calamity following typhoon haiyan. The biggest challenge of course is to provide aid to the millions of people affected. Dozens of countries promised to provide help. These are some of the latest pictures coming in to us. The official number of dead climbing. That total now this is the official number at 1,744. The United Nations says 10,000 people are feared dead in the city of tacloban alone. Thousands are trying to get on military planes to flee the destroyed areas. We will go live to manila and talk to marga ortigas, where the aid effort is being coordinated. Tell us what is happening . This is a government warehouse run by the social department trying to get food out to those who most need it. What has been happening here is since the store happened on friday there has been thousands of people that have come to volunteer. They felt impotence at not being able to do anything to help
Good morning and welcome to al Jazeera America. Im stephanie si, it has now been five days since typhoon haiyan devastated the philippines and in the aftermath there is a humanitarian crisis and people are without shelter and there are reports of mass braves and bodies lining the streets. Some desperate survivors resorted to looting and they have a state of National Calamity. We declare today a state of National Calamity to hasten the movements of the government on rescue relief and rehabilitation efforts on the provinces effected. Reporter aid is coming too late for those without food, water and medicine for days. The government now estimates the death toll at nearly 1800, support for storm victims is trickling in from the u. S. Military and 5,000 troops we deployed today aboard the uss George Washington and will arrive in 23 days and with the recovery we are joined in the philippines by Al Jazeera Craig Leeson and you were at the airport today and what is the situation on the ground
Again. Play the games the twenty twenty. The kids or absolutely staggering estimates put the death toll in the philippines and change thousand will siphon ion has left the center of the country and absolute brilliance. The most powerful storms on record and it sparked a Global Rescue and relief operation. The United Nations is now planning to launch a flash appeal for Urgent International assistance. Many countries able bodied plates supporter and santos personnel and now the difficult thing is going to be getting to the people who need the most well the area itself of course is made up of the huge amount of islands and most of them. A very remote. As you can see them late on and some ive said to be hardest hit including the port city of auckland band which has been totally destroyed. Theres no food no medicine no water for the people on the island of some on the situation grows more critical by the allen. People is painted the words help us all here hoping someone will notice collecti