cholesterol? you know what the difference is? apparently that doesn t matter much anymore. i want to bring in our chief medical correspondent, dr. sanjay gupta. what makes these new guidelines so monumental? sanjay gupta, can you hear me? all right. we re obviously having some problems with sanjay. we will come back to him in a second. now we will turn to the world lead. if you approach st. paul s hospital in the typhoon devastated city of tacloban in the philippines, you will see a hand-drawn sign that reads no admissions, no supplies. a blunt on-target summation of the desperate situation throughout the country. cargo flights are arriving. hundreds of tons of supplies are waiting. but conditions on the ground are keeping help out of some of the most affected areas. debris is blocking many roads and there is no power, no communication and no clean drinking water sources in wide swaths of the country.
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two days. but the needs are so vast and the destruction so complete and now the hardest hit areas are facing another challenge. here s abc s marci gonzalez. reporter: communities flattened. half a million people left homeless living among debris and the remains of some of the presumed thousands of people who were killed in super typhoon haiyan. truckloads of dead bodies, like hundreds. reporter: just when people in the philippines thought things couldn t get worse, they are now bracing for a tropical depression, expected to bring more heavy rain to the hardest-hit areas. help is on the way, but for many not fast enough. donations are being collected across the u.s. and in the philippines, the u.n., red cross and u.s. marines are among those working to get necessities to victims who are in such desperate need for food, water and shelter. we re so very hungry and thirsty. reporter: victims gathering at the battered airport in the town of tacloban. a hub of aid and rescue effo
24-hour relief staging post. aircraft can fly in all day and all night. we ve been seeing that as well. as far as the cleanup and the misery and the work piling up for the rescue teams and the relief teams, it s an enormous task. the debris here, there s an overturned baggage trolley. overturned cars, the place is in complete darkness. it is squalored. meanwhile, chris, the task of finding and bearing the dead continues. more misery on the ground, as some relief efforts are are halted overnight when another storm hit the city of tacloban. the strongest typhoon on record struck days ago, leaving behind a humanitarian crisis of unprecedented scope. i am the only survivor of the family. i want to know if they are still alive. reporter: from the sky, miles of destruction as far as the eye can see. while on the ground rows of lifeless bodies.