Ta tacloban. Its not a prietty sight. Few answers about relief efforts. I just want to bring you up to date on all that we have seen in the last 24 hours. Philippines where five days the cleanup has barely started if started at all. Everything is gone, theres nothing to eat, nothing to drink. Weed me nor people to help the current situation. Reporter help is on the way. 250 u. S. Service members are on the ground in the philippines, and two more ships are on the way. Right now, there simply isnt enough aid, and what aid there is, isnt getting out to those who need it most. Day after day, thousands come to tacloban airport. The lack of food and water, the decaying bodies lying on the street. But with 800,000 people displaced, many are without options. While others continue to search for loved ones lost in the storm surge. Only one missing is my eldest daughter. I hope shes alive. This woman cries for her mother whos still missing. Translator im still here in tacloban, she says. Im still
the wounded and sick wait for treatment but the hospital has no electricity and few supplies. we are admitting them as much as we can. because we cannot refuse them. it s already too late for this young mother tracradling h dead child in her arms. i m going crazy, she says. i want to go back home. home is not an option for her. it s not an option for many in this broken city. and nick hayden walsh joins me now. nick, in terms of the relief effort what are you seeing? because when you go out in these neighborhoods, i haven t seen much of a relief effort. reporter: indeed. every morning you see this wave of planes coming in but they re limited capacity what they can do. chopping down a tree, rearranging the trash here. we ve seen the scale of destruction here, quite a monumental challenge ahead. the real issue i think for many people in the next coming days
it s not an option for many in this broken city. and nick hayden walsh joins me now. nick, in terms of the relief effort what are you seeing? because when you go out in these neighborhoods, i haven t seen much of a relief effort. reporter: indeed. every morning you see this wave of planes coming in but they re limited capacity what they can do. the philippine military, chopping down a tree, rearranging the trash here. we ve seen the scale of destruction here, quite a monumental challenge ahead. the real issue i think for many people in the next coming days is whether the government can match that level with the level of aid they need. we simply haven t seen food or heavy machinery or real presence here to turn this around. you spent time recently, or last night, during the night, to see what it was like. reporter: utterly bizarre. like a ghost town. night causes more ability to be
0 washington. i ve been a lincoln man all my life. i put lincoln at the top. i think that i would, after having completed a film series that will be out in september on the history of the rose developmen roosevelts put him in there. what about jfk? i think it s an unfinished story. when he was killed i was ten years old. i was tragic. now i m working on a big history of vietnam. we don t know what he would have done, whether he would have gotten us out or in deeper. i ve got to leave it there. best of luck on the next project. anderson cooper reports live from the phillipines. good evening, everyone. i m anderson cooper live from tacloban airport in the philippines where five days after typhoon haiyan desperation has set in there is little food, little water, and many, many people in need. many people are trying to get out of here, out of the airport. there are scenes of people lining up all around me. they ve been lining up here all night long. they just wait at the airport. t