and there was no bleeding. so it was a perfect delivery in a very imperfect environment. once the baby was born, the entire hospital applauded. a baby named baya joy bringing relief in the midst of such intense human suffering. and there have been i think three birth in that makeshift hospital which is for this area is the only hospital. you had talked to somebody who said that they didn t know what a storm surge was. they didn t know to evacuate. yes. this man came up to me and said, why didn t they call it a tsunami? we note word tsunami. if the government had mentioned it will be like a snauk tsunami would have evacuated. they didn t know the surge of water would be coming through. they assumed it was a high tide or a few waves. he said if the word tsunami had been mentioned to people so many more people would be evacuated and live today. we ll take a quick break and be joined by all our
satellite phone. they re gone, they re all gone, he says. i don t know why this happened to me. he won t find answers here in tacloban. you ll only find loss. you ll only find misery. with so little help that is just not going away. just about everybody you meet in neighborhoods in the neighborhood around here seems to have lost somebody or is searching for somebody. i ve met more and more even after shooting that piece we met another woman who was searching for three of her children. she also her husband is also dead. then we saw a fire department, a local fire department which was picking up bodies, which was one
reporter: 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 ben hemingway from usaid and jeff pinnock from the world food program, wfp. in terms of wfp what are you doing in terms of district food? we re working with the department of social welfare. we have started distributing food that was here already in town that we acquired yesterday. for the swd that is district in the city and around. that distribution is scaling up today. when you distribute it, how do you go about doing that? the swd is forming family packs at this moment. put on trucks and taken to different neighborhoods and distributed. when do you hope to make a big impact here? the food that was acquired
and the waves were hitting the roof of that building. he s taking me to the scene of his miraculous escape. this was the family resort in the hardest-hit part of the city, right on the edge of the sea. he takes me through the shattered shell. the mayor and 14 others were here when haiyan struck. the surge devastated the building, six-in-thick concrete walls were smashed like tissue paper, he says. then suddenly boom the door bang, the other one door blasted open. water gushed in. reporter: as the waters rose, seven took their chances outside while the mayor and the rest climbed into the ceiling space. here the water was going up. so we had to go all the way in there where we climbed all the way up here. reporter: here. no.
it s started at all. everywhere you go there are pleas for help. everything is gone. our houses, everything. there s nothing to eat. there s nothing to drink. we need more people to help to help the current situation. 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 missing is my eldest daughter.