focussing on the living. the search and rescue never seem to materialize. in japan you barely saw a dead body after day two because they were going through and trying to retrieve bodies and find people alive and they did find people still alive. here, i haven t i don t know about you i haven t seen any dogs searching, any people. i ve seen two dogs, in five days, two dogs. locals simply trying to fix the problems then selfs. the question is how many people lost their lives. we ve gone from 10,000 to 2500. the smell as you-all know is remarkably overpowering and so much of it, gives you a real sense how bad the devastation could be. this whole relief story is about the victims, about what happens to them over the next week or so. can they hold out? we re getting stories of looting for three or four days now. looting is a bit of a mute point for people trying to stay alive. the military presence serves a
kilometer wide storm. the eye passed us 10 kilometers to the south. you re talking about a swath of devastation right down this coast. when we re covering the tsunami in japan just a few years ago, i remember on day one or day two there were members of the japanese defense, civil defense force-out, even though they didn t have heavy earth moving equipment, they were out with sticks, going through the rubble, trying to find survivors, trying to find those who had lost. i haven t seen that out. i haven t seen a large philippine military presence out in these areas. we ve seen it here in the airport. and we re seeing they re cleaning up now parts of the airport which is certainly a good start, but have you seen that in your time in the field? no. the search and rescue operation doesn t appear to have gotten started. i spoke to the president. he said we re focussing on the living. but the search and rescue never seems to have materialized. in japan you barely saw a dead
if you look at the devastation down there, it will take a long time to find out what is under that rubble and consider this was a 600 kill lom per eye storm, the eye passed 10 kilometers to the south, kevin station right down this coast. when we were covering the tsunami in japan just a few years ago, i remember on day one or day two there were members of the japanese and national defense force out even though they didn t have heavy earth moving equipment, they were out with sticks trying to find survivors and those lost. i haven t seen a large philippine military presence out in these areas. we seen it here in the airport and seen they are cleaning up now parts of the airport, which is certainly a good start, but have you seen that in your time out in the field? no, i mean, the search and rescue operation doesn t even appear to have got started as far as i can see. i ve spoken to officials and the president and he said we re
to guard the property from whatever. a lot of people going back before the storm started as well. if you look at the devastation down there, it will take a long time to actually find out what is under that rubble. and consider this was a 600 kilometer-wide storm. the eye passed us here we re told about 10 kilometers to the south, 8 miles to the south. you re talking about an swath of devastation right down this coast. when we re covering the tsunami in japan just a few years ago, i remember on day one or even day two there were members of the japanese civil defense force, the national defense force out, even though they didn t have heavy earth-moving equipment they were out with sticks going through the rubble trying to find survivors, trying to find those who were lost. i haven t seen that out. i haven t seen a large phillipine military presence out in these areas. we ve seen it here at the airport and we re seeing they re cleaning up now here parts of the airport which is certainly
body after day the search and rescue never seem to materialize. in japan you barely saw a dead body after day two because they were going through and trying to retrieve bodies and find people alive and they did find people still alive. here, i haven t i don t know about you i haven t seen any dogs searching, any people. i ve seen two dogs, in five days, two dogs. locals simply trying to fix the problems themselves. the question is how many people lost their lives. we ve gone from 10,000 to 2500. the smell as you-all know is remarkably overpowering and so much of it, gives you a real sense how bad the devastation could be. this whole relief story is about the victims, about what happens to them over the next week or so. can they hold out? we re getting stories of looting for three or four days now. looting is a bit of a mute point for people trying to stay alive. the military presence serves a purpose. it gives the sense of there is authority. you can t have a town that is l