your photos from syria from your visit last week, extraordinary that you are still the preeminent columnist reporter, reporter first, perhaps columnist equally second. but at this point, the state department budget calls for wiping out usaid and there say knerr survey coming out showing the usaid workers completely demoralized as a result of what they re hearing from the new secretary of state. i wish that donald trump and rex tillerson could have been with me and with the state department special envoy brett mcguirk, seeing the role that our usaid coordinator, the relief coordinator, the difference he s making on the ground now as isis falls. this is a fantastic development that people should cheer. but tens of thousands of people in need. they need the basics. u.s. sent its top relief
only a few managed to survive. no one knows how many lost their lives. down the road, a public well is being put to use. for now we don t have enough water even though we are not sure that it is clean and safe, we still drink because we need to survive. we see just two trucks in two hours making their very slow way into the city and the heart of desperation. paula hancocks, cnn, the philippines. that was a view from the ground. our next guest got the view from the sky. al dwyer is the leader of the usaid leader of the disaster response team. he s done two flyovers one over tacloban and another across the coastline. tell us how bad this damage is, what have you seen? good morning. certainly a catastrophic situation. we did overfly tacloban city and were able to get along the
starting initial operations. the united states is bringing in two 747s the next couple days full of plastic sheeting, hygiene kits, shelter, food and water are priorities. we re mobilizing food out of our miami warehouse and sri lanka. a lot of resources are coming to bear. it s a question of getting it to the people who need help. i assume they need food and water and medicine the most, right? yeah, it s the bakes right now. food, water, medicine. again a lot of things are en route. we are working closely with the department of defense assets and setting up means right now at this point. we ve heard 10,000 may be dead right now. obviously hundreds of thousands homeless. are those the numbers you re hearing, as well, al? well, you know, there s not a lot of information on the actual number of dead. this was a large storm, covered
0 statement that they re saying developing technologies in cooperation with our eu and international participants that would ultimately allow the relaxation of limitations on the liquids. they re saying that that remains their long-term goal, as well. so they re opening the door, the tsa, to this sort of thing happening one day if the u.s. rene, thank you so much. cnn newsroom with wolf blitzer starts right now. see you tomorrow. right now, they re digging through the rubble in the philippines looking for victims of the deadly super typhoon. as many as 10,000 people could be dead, hundreds of thousands without shelter or food. right now, u.s. marines are in tacloban. their priority is to get to the airport there running 24 hours a day. that could make all the difference in the world to the relief efforts. and right now, americans everywhere remember the men and the women who be or have served in the united states military. today the president continued a veterans day tradition