firefighters and others. i want to bring in damon maloney with doctors without boarders. he s in an organization that we worked with before. they have remarkable experience. in terms of the greatest needs, greatest priorities for you right now, what are they? anderson, at the moment i think it s a logistics problem at the moment. we re having trouble with access, electricity, fooder, water. it s really hard to help people if we don t have these things. we can t find transport. we can t find drivers. the population is basically leaving the city because it s really difficult to get any of these basic human rights. the we saw earlier in this bro broadcast that a man died essentially of a broken leg, infection spread of the broken leg. he died after being operated on.
think a dead cow, and it looks like behind it, there is the body of a person covered in a green cloth. that was tuesday in tacloban and a body like that, more than likely is still there. there is still a lot of bodies, particularly bodies in debris that have not been collected. that grim task goes on and thankless work for the firefighters and others. i want to bring in damon maloney with doctors without boarders. he s in an organization that we worked with before. they have remarkable experience. in terms of the greatest needs, greatest priorities for you right now, what are they? anderson, at the moment i think it s a logistics problem at the moment. we re having trouble with access, electricity, food, water. it s really hard to help people if we don t have these things. we can t find transport.
ob/gyn, maternity, children, the whole deal. but this just this getting things from manila and from europe has been quite difficult and now it s finally on the ground. we got to get it here, and that s quite difficult, as well. and even often getting it off the tarmac, you know, in a lot of places on forklifts to lift pallets of food and aid and these things that people take for granted cost people s lives. i appreciate damon, all the work you re doing as i do doctors without borders. people can go to our website to find out more information. we ll continue to check in with you in the days ahead. good luck to you and your folks working on the ground there. we ve seen a number of families being reunited. a lot of people looking for their loved ones. americans, fillipino americans in the united states trying to
but this just this getting things from manila and from europe has been quite difficult and now it s finally on the ground. we got to get it here, and that s quite difficult, as well. and even often getting it off the tarmac, you know, in a lot of places on forklifts to lift pallets of food and aid and these things that people take for granted cost people s lives. i appreciate damon, all the work you re doing as i do doctors without boarders. people can go to our website to find out more information. we ll continue to check in with you in the days ahead. good luck to you and your folks working on the ground there. we ve seen a number of families being reunited.
0 proved what it really means to be a super hero. good job, bat kid. reporter: it was just last month when miles had a tube taken out of his chest used to dispense medication. the director of the make a wish foundation, said today i think we gave him back a little bit of his childhood. erin. dan simon thank you and thanks to all of you. have a wonderful weekend. have a wonderful weekend. i ll hand it over to anderson. captions by vitac www.vitac.com good evening i m anderson cooper reporting live from manila. we ll have reporters from all over the disaster scene. this is day eight since super typhoon haiyan hit. its easy to think by day eight with the aid that s coming, with the increasing improvements in the way it s being distributed, it s easy to think the nightmare is over. it continues. there is still a lack of food, a lack of water and people are dying. people are still dying. people will die who don t need to die. they will die of things that if they had antibiotics