0 are much bigger than anything america has and there is a slew on towers that will rank higher than anything in the u.s. we're getting bumped in. two press confraszs, 25 judges to decide which u.s. city is number four, for now. number four, for now. ac starts now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good evening everyone. i'm anderson cooper like from tacloban airport in the philippines are five days after typhoon haiyan, desperation set in. there is little food, little water and there are many, many people in need. many people are trying to get out of here, out of the airport. there are scenes of people lining up all around me. they have been lining up here all night long and just wait at the airport. they frankly have nowhere else to go because out there on the other side of the camera, is what remains of tacloban and it is not a pretty sight. dead bodies laying out near the wreckage of people's homes, people sleeping out in the streets with little food, little water, and few answers, frankly, about the relief effort. we're going to try to get answers over the course of the next hour. i just want to bring you up to date on what that we have seen in the last 24 hours. it's been five days since super typhoon haiyan sammed sloo the philippines but after that time there is no official death toll, no concerted effort to retrieve the bodies of those who died. the cleanup in some badly hit areas has barely started, if it started at all. everywhere you go, there are pleas for help. >> everything is gone. our houses, our -- everything. there is nothing to eat. there is nothing to drink. >> we need more people to help, to help the current situation. >> reporter: help is on the way. 250 u.s. service members are on the ground in the philippines and two more ships are on the way. but right now, there simply isn't enough aid and what aid there is isn't getting out to those who need it most. day after day, thousands come to tacloban airport hoping for a ride out, praying they can escape the devastation, the lack of food and water, the decaying bodies lying on the street. but with 800,000 people displaced, many are without options. while others continue to search for loved ones lost in the storm surge. >> only one is missing is my eldest daughter. i hope she's alive and we're hoping. >> reporter: this woman cries for her mother who is still missing. >> translator: i'm still here in tacloban she says, i'm still alive. makeshift shelters for those left behind have spung up all over the area. people sleeping wherever they can, despite to find a dry, safe stop. people around here have no place to go. a lot of them who may have evacuated before the storm are back in what used to be their homes. there is a makeshift shack somebody constructed over there. they tried to collect all the things they could salvage but it's not much. in many places not much is left but rubble and the sound of pets waiting for owners who may never return. this makeshift coffin has a piece of rock with the name of a baby whose been placed inside. marian p. alcain. she was one year old. the wounded and sick wait for treatment and the hospital has no electricity and few supplies. >> we are admitting them as much as we can because we cannot refuse them. >> reporter: it's already too late for this young mother cradling her dead child in her arms. i'm going crazy she says, i want to go back home. home is not an option for her. it's not an option for many in this broken city. and nick paton walsh joins me now. nick, in terms of the relief effort, what are you seeing? when you go out in these neighborhoods, i don't see much of an effort. >> every morning you see planes coming in and limited in capacity. an effort by the philippine military chopping down a tree and rearranging trash here. we seen the scale of destruction a monumental challenge ahead and the issue for many people in the next coming days, they will match that with the level of aid. we haven't seen food or heavy machinery or presence there. >> you spent time recently or last night just kind of outside during the night to see what it was like. >> almost like a ghost town. night causes much devastation not to be visible but you're still left with people coming to terms in their quiet confined sb spaces with the real loss. >> let's take a look. >> some of tacloban's misery but locals must huddle around what is left. the smell of death heavy, bodies unfound and they even hunt for them at night. a dog led them to this spot where he watched them dig up his son and just now his daughter. as the typhoon picked up, she suddenly stopped answering his worried text messages. this is not her home here? >> no. >> it's over there? >> no, it's over there. >> so the wind carried her? >> the flood and the wind. >> their mother is still buried somewhere here. >> how will you rebuild yourself? >> just by working and look for living. >> the debris, police check points, burning tires, signs security fierce and the aid mission isn't moving yet. people left turning to the church for physical shelter, not spiritu spiritual counting those lost. >> granddaughter and second daughter. >> have you found the bodies? >> my daughter is missing. not yet it's almost since november 8th until now. their bodies gone. >> one repeated complaint, where is their government? it looks like the end of the world because for so many here, it was. >> i want to talk about the relief efforts going on with dan from usa id and jeff from the world food program wfp. in terms of wfp, what are you doing to distribute food? >> we're working with dswd. we started distributing food that was here already in town that we acquired yesterday. they are distributing in the city and around. that distribution is scaling up today. >> so when you distribute it, how do you go about doing it? >> forming family packs at this moment and being put on to pfrom here we expect to scale u. >> when do you hope to sort of actually make a big inprint, a big impact? >> the food acquired yesterday is a big start. there is more on the way. we have high energy biscuits coming in. it will take awhile but the first ones arrive today. right now 2,500 tons of rice is a nice start. >> the roads are impassable in a lot of places. >> the roads are opening up now and we have trucks coming from manila to support the effort. >> how about for usa id? >> we're working in response efforts so prioritizing water, food, high gene and sanitation and bringing in a massive department of defense airlift to make as you were assistance gets to communities. >> are you getting stuff to the airport and it's up to local authorities to distribute or are you involved in the distribution? >> we're working with the government of the philippines and supporting agencies like the world food program to rapidly increase their capacity here to make sure needed equipment gets out. >> when do you hope to see stuff going out to people? >> we've seen stuff going to people already. some c 130s landed and we moved to the hardest hit area. today we're bringing in 20,000 shelter kits, hygiene kits. >> what is in a shelter kit? people have no place to sleep. they are sleeping under tin outside. what does a shelter kit have? >> immediately they will be provided with plastic sheeting. that's key with the continued rainfall to keep the water off them. until we can fill the pipeline, they will be using materials that they are able to get to build a frame but as you've seen in most areas, there is wood, nails, rope. right now we're mostly concerned with getting that sheeting over their head while the additional resources are brought to bear. >> how does this compare to other operations? >> this is enormous. we have priorities to stabilize at least three urban population and then we move into the coastal areas. >> because when you look around, everything is gone. >> yes, sir, this -- although not as wide spread as could have been, the areas the typhoon went through are completely destroyed. infrastructures, cools, hospitals, gone. to restore logistic l access to move commodities. >> gad you glad you guys are he. thank you for your hard work. when we come back, we'll talk to a member of the u.s. air force to find out what they are doing on the ground. there is a big up tick in u.s. involvement in the last 24 hours. we'll talk to him ahead. we'll be right back. la's known definitely for its traffic, congestion, for the smog. but there are a lot of people that do ride the bus. and now that the buses are running on natural gas, they don't throw out as much pollution into the air. so i feel good. i feel like i'm doing my part to help out the environment. is caused by people looking fore traffic parking.y that's remarkable that so much energy is, is wasted. streetline has looked at the problem of parking, which has not been looked at for the last 30, 40 years, we wanted to rethink that whole industry, so we go and put out these sensors in each parking spot and then there's a mesh network that takes this information sends it over the internet so you can go find exactly where those open parking spots are. the collaboration with citi was important for providing us the necessary financing; allow this small start-up to go provide a service to municipalities. citi has been an incredible source of advice, how to engage with municipalities, how to structure deals, and as we think about internationally, citi is there every step of the way. so the end result is you reduce congestion, you reduce pollution and you provide a service to merchants, and that certainly is huge. we'll be right back. could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. mmmhmmm...everybody knows that. well, did you know that old macdonald was a really bad speller? 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