administration s response has been inexcusably slow and ineffective. we need someone overseeing the entire operation. one problem that they are facing is that there are 3,000 shipping containers sitting on the port. they don t have trucks. they don t have the manpower. that was the alaskan congresswoman, born in puerto rico, emotional, as you can understand. as of today half the island has no drinking water. fema said it has delivered 2 million litres of water and 1 million meals to the island but it s been a week. we re joined at the port of san juan. there are millions of water bottles there, fuel is waiting to be delivered. what are you seeing on the ground, mariana? reporter: andrea, those 3,000
able to happened during nighttime hour. as you can tell it s already made a dips. there s a lot more aid on the ground here at the airport in tacloban. these are actually boxes of medical supplies, looks like they re from germany. these are boxes, pallets full of boxes from usaid from the united states. these are plastic tarps, sheets that can be cut up by families, thousands of them. they can be used for shelter, which is critically important here for the people who have really no shelter from the elements whatsoever. the question is how quickly can this aid be distributed out to the communities that need it most. can it be distributed safely, efficiently, and quickly. that s the big holdup right now. the phillipine government on the local government here, even the federal government is very disorganized. there aren t the capabilities. they don t have trucks, there s a shortage of fuel. so how quickly this aid can get out there right now, that s the biggest challenge. all week long
with u.s. air force personnel. last nights the first night that c-130 cargo planes were able to land during nighttime hours. as you can tell, it made a difference. there is more aid on the ground. these are actually boxes of medical supplies, looks like they are from germany. these are boxes, full of boxes from usiad from the united states. these are plastic tarps, sheets that can be cut up by families, thousands of them. they can be used for shelter, which is critically important here for the people who have really no shelter from the elements whatsoever. the question is how quickly can it be distributed to the communities that need it most, can it be distributed safely, efficiently and quickly? that s the holdup. the local government, federal government is very disorganized. there aren t the capabilities. they don t have trucks. there is a shortage of fuel. how quickly the aid can get out there right now is the biggest
that can be cut up by families. thousands of them. they can be used for shelter, which is critically important here for the people who have really no shelter from the elements whatsoever. the question is how quickly can this aid be distributed out to the communities that need it most? can it be distributed safely, efficiently and quickly. that s the big hold up right now. the philippine government on the local government here, even the federal government is very disorganized. there aren t the capabilities. they don t have trucks. there s a shortage of fuel. so how quickly this aid can get out there right now, that s the biggest challenge. that certainly is a big challenge as we ve been seeing. i m joined by all our correspondents who have been here a lot longer than i have. we talked about this at the top of the program. i just want to reiterate, there apparently is some belief among the philippine government or the interior minister, he was upset with me saying they tweeted something
most? can it be distributed safely, efficiently and quickly. that s the big hold up right now. the phillipine government on the local government here, even the federal government is very disorganized. there aren t the capabilities. they don t have trucks. there s a shortage of fuel. so how quickly this aid can get out there right now, that s the biggest challenge. that certainly is a big challenge as we ve been seeing. i m joined by all our correspondents who have been here a lot longer than i have. we talked about this at the top of the program. i just want to reiterate, there apparently is some belief among the phillipine government or the interior minister, he was upset with me saying they tweeted something that there s no government presence here. there certainly is a government presence. what i was saying and i didn t tweet anything at all was saying that i have not seen a big relief effort out in communities by phillipine military personnel doing a grid search for bodies, even se