It is wednesday in the philippines and the survivors a new day brings suffering. They are desperate for food, water and medicine. And for the people who lost everything, time is running out. Help is on the way from around the world, but reaching the hardesthit areas is difficult. Helicopters having trouble finding places to land. Debris blocking roads and the countrys president had to send troops to stop looting. In the central philippines the devastation stretches. Joining us live from cebu is craig leeson. What is the number one priority there now . Strangely as it sounds, the number one priority is getting the relief out there. We are told that its coming in from all over the world, but we are not seeing it on the ground, particularly in tacloban, where its most needed the hardest hit city within the central parts of the philippines, when this tidal surge swept through and took many peoples lives with it. This is where this relief is supposed to be. Theres supposed to be a coordinat
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