it s certainly going to hamper the relief efforts and cause a great deal more hismisery on th ground, anderson. you talked to a woman who is searching for her family members. in terms of recovery efforts is there heavy equipment on the ground? how are people searching through rebel? rubble? at the moment, the focus is just on the survivors and getting aid and supplies to them. we are going into the fifth day of this disaster sin super typhoon haiyan sit the central philippines. yesterday we were with the military and went to northern cebu and remote islands. and we were picking up the wounded and the injured, ferrying them back and this is just a handful.
just do not have information. communication is spotty at best and a lot of areas have not been got into by government officials by relief agencies. anna koren joins us from cebu. how are things there today? what is the situation? well, anderson, the relief operation is certainly stepped up a gear in the last half hour. the largest plane in the world, a russian plane has just landed from china packed filled with aid. of course we know that the people on the ground in the disaster area need food, clean water, medical supplies and shelter. several c-130 hercules planes have landed to take the aid to those areas as well. obviously the weather is a real problem. but certainly here it s been raining and that could slow down the operation.
correspondents all throughout the philippines to give you an accurate picture about what is happening here over the last several days. anna koren is in cebu. she reported on some of the efforts there. this airfield in cebu is the staging ground for the country s biggest relief operation. c-130 hercules fly in survivors all shell shocked from what they have been through. i cannot say anything yet. i m in shock. our friends are dead. some of our family members are dead. so it s really devastating. as the death toll grows by the day. the families here desperately wait for news of their loved ones. i am the only survivor of the family and i want to know if they are still alive. so many people who frankly
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