A massive relief effort is slowly taking shape, survivors of typhoon haiyan say shortages of food, water and medicine and shelter. Unu. S. Military officer described the scene as overwhelming. Authorities say the death toll could top 10,000. Philippines president benigno akein fo haquino has declared a state of national calamity. Today, back in the philippines, under stormy skies, thousands of survivors stormed the airport in hardhit tacloban, desperate to get out. Its pretty hard here. Hardhit tacloban, desperate to get out. Everything, our houses, theres nothing to eat, nothing to drink. Reporter four days after the storm hit the magnitude of the destruction, its still unfolding. The city of tacloban with a population of 220,000 was hit with the full force of the storm and all but wiped off the map. Every building here is either significantly damaged or destroyed. Reporter hospitals and pharmacies were washed away, leaving Health Care Workers desperate for medicines. Decomposing bodi
0 republicans have looked at something that happened in the obama administration to compare it to katrina. so it is becoming one of their rituals. just like we voted 48-plus time s against the repeal of health care reform now every other day they re going to be calling everything katrina. this is their seventh time they ve called something katrina. you know, melissa, you live in new orleans. yep. you lived through cat rinna. your mom is in new orleans. to compare this, katrina was about a president, when people were suffering on live television, that didn t come in. they re comparing it to a president that saw people suffering thad tried to do something and is trying to do something about it. it is absolutely outrageous. yeah, i mean, look, here is the comparison that works. hurricane katrina is like gop resistance to obama care. and here is how. in the context of a hurricane katrina disaster there was a disaster, a natural disaster caused by weather, and storms, and wind surge