it s difficult to help people reunite and getting satellite phones to let people tell their loved ones they are alive. jackelyn we talked to last friday was the first time and throughout the week, she was concerned about her parents who live in tacloban, if she had heard from them on friday but wasn t sure on their status. charles, we ran into them at the airport in tacloban and i talked to him here in manila last night. charles, you had just moved there to tacloban. when the storm hit, where were you? explain what happened. well, we was in the house around about 4:00 in the morning. the rain started. it was raining, raining very hard and all of a sudden, just the wind started blowing and just started just tearing the place apart.
they can operate. what the world food program especially is doing is the i.t. and telecoms for the aid workers so they can communicate. satellite phones, cell phones, the internet. all of that is crucially important, but i think there has been a real lift in the actions on the ground. thank you so much. thanks for taking the time to explain. for more information on how you can help, you can go to our website, andrea.msnbc.com and all of the information will be there. as the massive r ivive relief o continues, we re getting a better picture of the scope of this devastation, the destruction in some of the hardest-hit areas. take a look at these before and after satellite images. you can see the buildings and landmarks that have simply vanished, wiped out by this storm s high waves and winds. as a business owner, i m constantly putting out fires.
airstrip. many have walked for hours to get their first food since the storm. it s become the military s staging area. a first aid center is set up for cuts and bruises, but they can do little for a serious gash to the head. one of her first priorities, restoring communications. from today, maybe in 48 hours hopefully, we re now relying on satellite phones. reporter: as we move further inland, we come across more bodies. this is the local chapel effectively being turned into a morgue. inside are nine bodies, five of them are children. the military planes that bring life essentials in take the body bags out, as well as the injured that need to keep their hope for the future. paula hancocks, cnn, tacloban in the philippines. aid agencies are mobilizing to help the victims of the typhoon. to find out how you can help, go
only one is missing, is my eldest daughter. i hope she s alive, and i m hoping that she she s alive, and she was only she s somewhere, but she s alive. reporter: this woman became emotional as she saw bodies float past her home. she said she was on the roof to avoid the water. they are just some of the victims congregating at the airstrip. many have walked for hours to get their first food since the storm. it s become the military s staging area, a first aid center set up for cuts and bruises, but they can do little for a serious gash to the head. one of the first priorities, restoring communications. from today, maybe in 48 hours, hopefully, we re not relying on satellite phones. as we move further inland, we
home. she said she was on the roof to avoid the water. she was among victims congregating at the tacloban area. it s a first aid area set up for cuts and bruises, but they can do little for a serious gash to the head. one of her first priorities, restoring communications. from today, within 48 hour, hopefully, we re now relying on satellite phones. reporter: as we move further inland, we come across more bodies. this is the local chapel here which is effectively being turned into a morgue. inside, there are nine bodies, five of them are children. the military planes that bring life essentials in take the body bags out. as well as the injured that need to keep their hope for the future. paula hancocks, cnn, tacloban in the philippines. it was a scramble for search