antonio. just after midnight last night, as you heard the fire chief in san antonio describe, it was a walmart store manager who was approached by one of the people inside that truck, asking for water, that led to the discovery of these undocumented migrants inside this truck. a great deal of work trying to figure out exactly how this operation was moving, what the plan was, was this just a pit stop? where were they moving to, where were they coming from and that sort of thing. they are key pieces of information that will be needed to build the human smuggling ca case. this form of human smuggling really common in this area. this is something that because of the highway systems and the road systems through this part
the incident is so large. we ve had to break into two divisions. we have the west division on this side and the east division in darrington. and so because of that, we ve got different branches set up on both sides of the incident. and it s working well of getting things done and getting the resources that everybody needs on both sides of the incident. there s some complexities there with, you know, road systems and stuff like that. and we re working on getting an emergency road finished for emergency access only on a power line road so that we can expedite, you know, getting resources and equipment on both sides. but i want to stress, that emergency road is for emergency use only. it s not a public road for people to come in and out of there. fatigue of our responders up there. some of the folks have been there since day one.
no doubt about that. and the road systems in the philippines have not been invested in over the years, due to years of corruption, due to years of the government siphoning money off of projects like that for decades of that frankly going back a long time. so there are big infrastructure problems here that are all playing a part in this, but i m not even talking about, you know, areas outlying. we re talking about tacloban, a few blocks from here, people not having water, not having access to food, not having access to shelter. god only knows what s happening in small villages along the coast where people can t get to. that s the thing. this road into tacloban city has been open since sunday, we re now wednesday. and there s no supplies getting to that area. there s at least 100 kilometers more of area that has exactly the same damage as this. this is the first time the philippine military and
have no supplies and aren t admitting more patients. if that clinic underneath that tower right there behind us doesn t have enough food and water for the people coming there, what does that tell you about everybody else? you would think that would be a top priority to be stocked with food and water. right, anderson i don t get it. you hinted in haiti, it was obviously a much more focused area that was hit and therefore the international relief that came in was able to target that very directly. how much more complicated is the rescue mission in the philippines given there are over 2,000 small islands which are inhabited there, many of which have been hit in someway by the typhoon? it must make it much more complicated that it s so spread out like that. no doubt about that, and the weather has not been cooperative, no doubt about that. the road systems in the philippines have not been invested over the years, through the years of corruption, through the years of government
cooperative. no doubt about that. and the road systems in the philippines have not been invested in over the years, due to years of corruption, due to years of the government siphoning money off of projects like that for decades of that frankly going back a long time. so there are big infrastructure problems here that are all playing a part in this, but i m not even talking about, you know, areas outlying. we re talking about tacloban, a few blocks from here, people not having water, not having access to food, not having access to shelter. god only knows what s happening in small villages along the coast where people can t get to. that s the thing. this road into tacloban city has been open since sunday, we re now wednesday. and there s no supplies getting to that area. there s at least 100 kilometers