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'Worse than hell' in typhoon-ravaged Philippines 



By Andrew Stevens and Paula Hancocks, CNN 
updated 12:43 AM EST, Mon November 11, 2013











A man reconstructs his house in the bay of Tacloban, Leyte province, Philippines, on Wednesday, November 27, 2013. Typhoon Haiyan, one of the most powerful storms on record, hit the country's eastern seaboard on November 8, leaving a wide swath of destruction, including more than 5,000 deaths.




A man rests on his damaged house along the shore in Tacloban on Monday, November 25.




Road traffic moves past destroyed houses in Palo, Leyte province, on Sunday, November 24, weeks after typhoon Haiyan caused heavy damage to life and property in the Philippines.








A woman rests inside the damaged Our Lady of Guadalupe shrine in Tacloban, Philippines, on Sunday, November 24.




A woman looks over the devastated waterfront in Tacloban on November 24.




Typhoon survivors walk down a road in Palo, Philppines, during a procession for typhoon victims on November 24.




A vehicle lies in the water in Tacloban on Saturday, November 23.




A man searches through the debris in Tacloban on November 23.




A man scavenges piles of wood amid damaged container vessels on November 23 in Tacloban. 




Local people begin to help clear debris near the shoreline where several tankers ran aground on November 23 in Leyte. The death toll from the storm stands at more than 5,000, according to a government-run news agency.




 A man clears debris from in front of his home near the shoreline on November 23 in Leyte.




Groups of men clear debris near the shoreline on November 23 in Tacloban.




Survivors of Typhoon Haiyan inspect the damage to their houses in Tacloban, Philippines, on Friday, November 22. 




Filpinos clear rubble from a hard-hit area in Tacloban on November 22. 




An airplane lands in Tacloban as Antonio Lacasa rebuilds his house on Thursday, November 21. 




People carry a coffin through an opening in the wall of a public cemetery for burial in Tacloban on November 21.




A member of the Philippine air force drops relief goods for survivors in Tolosa on November 21.




Children blow bubbles in a destroyed market in Tacloban on Wednesday, November 20.




Workers clear mud and debris in Tacloban on November 20.




A boy climbs across debris in Tacloban on November 20.




People at the airport in Tacloban react to a blast of wind from an aircraft on November 20.




A man walks through water in the typhoon-ravaged city of Tacloban, Philippines, on November 20. 




A man sleeps on Tuesday, November 19, on a tanker that ran aground during Typhoon Haiyan in Tacloban.




Firemen unload bodies November 19 for forensic experts to register and bury in a mass grave outside of Tacloban.




Firemen unload more victims outside of Tacloban on November 19.




A man fans the flames of a fire in Tanauan, Philippines, on November 19.




Survivors salvage wood next to stranded ships in Tacloban on November 19.




Philippine military personnel carry an injured survivor to an evacuation flight at the Tacloban airport November 19.




People in Tacloban march in the rain November 19 during a procession calling for courage and resilience among survivors.




People play cards by candlelight Monday, November 18, in Tacloban.




A U.S. Navy helicopter delivers relief goods to typhoon victims in Ormoc, Philippines, on November 18.




Men take food back to their families in Leyte on November 18. Countries all over the world have pledged relief aid to those affected by the typhoon, but damage to airports and roads have made moving the aid very difficult.




People are held back as the U.S. Navy delivers aid from a helicopter in San Jose, Philippines, on November 18.




A helicopter flies over a call for help in Ormoc on November 18.




A man cleans up mud inside a church in the hard-hit city of Tacloban on November 18.




A boy bathes November 18 at a Tacloban school turned into a temporary shelter.




Hundreds of typhoon survivors are packed into a U.S. military airplane November 18 for evacuation from Tacloban's airport.




Typhoon survivors run toward a passing U.S. Navy helicopter in San Jose on November 18.




A boy holding a toy machine gun sits Sunday, November 17, on a ship that ran aground in Tacloban.




People gather around a helicopter as it delivers relief supplies November 17 in Guiuan, Philippines.




Filipinos board an HC-130 Hercules airplane as U.S. sailors carry relief supplies November 17 in Guiuan.




Survivors clean mannequins found among the debris in Tacloban on November 17.




A man leans against a statue of the Crucifixion before a Mass at Santo Nino Church in Tacloban on November 17.




A man carries a piece of wood from the debris in Tacloban on November 17.




Survivors wait in line in Tacloban for relief goods on November 17.




A man looks over the devastation from his damaged home in Tacloban on November 17.




A trapped resident braves the dust created by a U.S. Navy helicopter taking off Saturday, November 16, on Manicani Island, Philippines.




Corpses are collected and loaded on trucks to be taken to mass graves in Tacloban on November 16.




A victim's corpse floats on a river in Tanauan on November 16.




A pregnant survivor waits to give birth in a hospital November 16 in Tanauan.




A dead dog lies in front of a house destroyed by the typhoon in Tanauan.




A man carries a bicycle as he walks through the ruins of a Tacloban building November 16.




Survivors of the typhoon stand in a Tanauan street partially blocked by debris November 16.




An elderly survivor walks past toppled cars outside a church in Tacloban on November 16.




A man in Tanauan cleans meat after slaughtering his only cow that survived the typhoon.




Survivors gather in Tacloban to await transport to a neighboring province on November 16.




Men carry a coffin toward a Leyte cemetery on November 16.




A survivor cooks dinner in front of his damaged home in Marabut, Philippines, on Friday, November 15.




Toppled coconut trees dot a mountain in an area devastated by the typhoon in Leyte province.




A typhoon survivor keeps her husband alive by manually pumping air into his lungs after his leg was amputated at a Tacloban hospital November 15. The hospital has been operating without power since the typhoon.




A survivor reacts to the damage at a residential area in Tacloban on November 15.




Typhoon victims are treated in the lobby of a Tacloban hospital on November 15.




Philippine Army soldiers carry the body of a civilian in Tanauan on November 15.




Residents wait to board a Singaporean cargo plane at the Tacloban airport on November 15. Many survivors have converged on the city's airport to wait for flights.




Search and retrieval teams carry a body bag in Tacloban on November 15.




Haiyan survivors carry food that a U.S. military helicopter dropped off in Guiuan on Thursday, November 14.




Dozens of bodies are placed near Tacloban City Hall on November 14 as workers prepare a mass grave on the outskirts of the hard-hit city.




A girl plays inside her house amid the devastation in Tacloban on November 14.




A Filipino soldier hands out bread to survivors in Maraboth, Philippines, on November 14.




A boy takes cover from rain while waiting for an evacuation flight from Tacloban's airport November 14.




Workers arrange bodies at a mass burial site at a Tacloban cemetery November 14.




The weary wait for evacuation from Tacloban on November 14.




A truck lies in the water in Hernani, Philippines, on November 14.




Children play with fallen power lines near a damaged school in Guiuan on November 14.




Teresa Mazeda hangs laundry in the ruins of her Tacloban home on Wednesday, November 13.




Nina Duran searches for belongings at her family's destroyed house in Tacloban on November 13.




Survivors walk through the ruins of their neighborhood outside Tacloban on November 13.




A man sits in front of his destroyed business November 13 in Tacloban.




A family, desperate to charge their mobile phones to search for family and friends, tries to use a ceiling fan to generate electricity November 13 in the Philippine province of Cebu.




An injured man in Tacloban rests beneath a picture of Jesus Christ on November 13.




A man takes a shower amid the rubble in Tacloban on November 13.




A rescue team wades into Tacloban floodwater to retrieve a body on November 13. 




Residents take shelter in a Tacloban church on November 13.




Residents make their way through a destroyed neighborhood in Tacloban on November 13.




A boy cycles past a coffin left on a street in Tacloban on November 13. 




A man looks at his destroyed home November 13 in Tacloban.




Body bags are lined up in Tacloban on November 13.




Survivors prepare to board a military plane November 13 at the Tacloban airport.




Men walk through smoke as they burn debris from a Tacloban church on November 16.




An aerial view of Tanuan shows signs pleading for help and food November 13.




Soldiers help a woman after she collapsed November 13 while waiting in line to board a military plane at Tacloban's airport.




Survivors wait to be evacuated from Tacloban on November 13.




An injured survivor gets carried on a stretcher before being airlifted from Tacloban's airport November 13. 




A survivor begins to rebuild his house in Tacloban on November 13.




Evacuees wait to board a military aircraft in Leyte on Tuesday, November 12.




People walk through damage in Tacloban on November 12.




A young man waits at the airport November 12 in hopes of being evacuated from Tacloban.




A woman comforts a crying relative as a plane leaves the Tacloban airport November 12.




A man sits crying on a packed aircraft in Tacloban on November 12.




Debris lays scattered around a damaged home near the Tacloban airport on November 12.




A girl sits inside a bus as she waits for a ferry in Matnog, Philippines, on November 12.




Police line up bodies for processing in Tacloban on November 12.




People in Tacloban pass debris on November 11.




Survivors in Tacloban board a military plane bound for the Philippine capital of Manila on November 11.




Residents carry bags of rice from a Tacloban warehouse that they stormed November 11 because of a food shortage.




A woman in Tacloban walks amid the debris of destroyed houses on November 11.




People make their way across a flooded street in Shangsi, China, on November 11. Haiyan moved toward Vietnam and south China after devastating the Philippines.




Buildings lie in ruins on Eastern Samar's Victory Island.




Emily Ortega rests on November 11 after giving birth to Bea Joy at an improvised clinic at the Tacloban airport.




U.S. Marine Corps Osprey aircraft arrive at Manila's Villamor Airbase to deliver humanitarian aid on November 11.




People ride past destruction in Tacloban on Sunday, November 10.




A body lies amid the Tacloban devastation on November 10.




People cover their noses to block the smell of bodies in Tacloban on November 10.




Bodies of victims lie along a Tacloban road on November 10.




A large boat sits aground, surrounded by debris in Tacloban on November 10.




People walk past the Tacloban devastation on November 10.




People stand under a shelter in Tacloban.




A girl peeks out from a makeshift shelter in Tacloban.




Typhoon survivors wait to receive relief goods at the Tacloban airport on November 10.




A woman mourns in front of her husband's dead body November 10 in Tacloban.




Fallen trees litter the ground at the Tacloban airport on Saturday, November 9.




A resident passes victims' bodies on a Tacloban street November 9.




People in Tacloban carry a victim of the typhoon November 9.




A vehicle lies amid Tacloban debris on November 9.




People walk past a victim left on the side of a road in Tacloban.




A resident passes an overturned car in Tacloban on November 9.




Rescue workers carry a woman about to give birth November 9 at a makeshift medical center at the Tacloban airport.




An airport lies in ruins in Tacloban.




Astronaut Karen L. Nyberg took a picture of the typhoon from the International Space Station on November 9.




Women walk past fallen trees and destroyed houses in Tacloban on November 9. Residents scoured supermarkets for water and food as they slowly emerged on streets littered with debris.




A soldier pulls a cable inside the devastated airport tower in Tacloban. 




Tacloban houses are destroyed by the strong winds caused by the typhoon.




Dark clouds brought by Haiyan loom over Manila skyscrapers on November 8.




A woman carries a baby across a river November 8 at a coastal village in Las Pinas, Philippines.




A resident walks along a fishing village in Bacoor, Philippines, on November 8.




A house in Legazpi, Philippines, is engulfed by storm surge November 8.




A child wraps himself in a blanket inside a makeshift house along a Bacoor fishing village.




A woman and her children head for an evacuation center November 8 amid strong winds in Cebu City, Philippines.




Huge waves from Haiyan hit the shoreline in Legazpi on November 8.




A fisherman lifts a post to reinforce his home at a coastal village in Las Pinas on November 8.




A resident unloads nets off a fishing boat in Bacoor on November 8.




Residents reinforce their homes in Las Pinas on November 8.




The storm approaches the Philippines in this satellite image taken Thursday, November 7, by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.




Workers bring down a billboard in Makati, Philippines, on November 7 before Haiyan makes landfall.




Philippine Coast Guard personnel stand in formation beside newly acquired rubber boats after a blessing ceremony in Manila on Wednesday, November 6. The boats were to be deployed to the central Philippines in preparation for Haiyan.




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STORY HIGHLIGHTS


NEW: At least 6 people have died in Vietnam as a result of the storm, state media report
NEW: Typhoon Haiyan weakens to become a tropical storm after hitting Vietnam
International Red Cross: Realistic to estimate 10,000 people dead across Philippines
President Aquino tours Tacloban City, where survivors are angry at slow response











Are you in the affected area? Send us images and video, but please stay safe.
Tacloban, Philippines (CNN) -- As the Philippines faced a long, grim path to recovery in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan, the storm plowed into northeastern Vietnam early Monday, packing powerful winds and forcing hundreds of thousands to evacuate.
Philippine authorities warned that the typhoon may have killed thousands there, leaving behind a trail of devastation on a scale they'd never seen before.
No electricity. No food. No water. Houses and buildings leveled. Bodies scattered on the streets. Hospitals overrun with patients. Medical supplies running out.


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And a death toll that could soar.
The Philippine Red Cross estimates that at least 1,200 people were killed by the storm, but that number could grow as officials make their way to remote areas made nearly inaccessible by Haiyan.
Others put the toll much higher: The International Committee of the Red Cross said it's realistic to estimate that 10,000 people may have died nationally.
The grim task of counting the bodies was just beginning Monday as authorities sifted through the rubble of what was left behind in hard-hit cities like Tacloban on the island of Leyte. The official toll stood at 255 Monday, according to the country's National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council.
"I have not spoken to anyone who has not lost someone, a relative close to them. We are looking for as many as we can," Tacloban Mayor Alfred Romualdez told CNN.
Interactive map of the storm
'This is really, really like bad'
Desperately needed aid was making its way into the storm-ravaged city of Tacloban on Monday. C-130 planes arrived, carrying food, water and supplies. Other planes left -- some of them carrying body bags with storm victims.
A steady stream of typhoon survivors arrived at Tacloban airport, looking for food, water and escape.
Magina Fernandez was among them. She had lost her home and business. And she was desperate to leave on the next military plane.
She made an anguished plea for help.






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"Get international help to come here now -- not tomorrow, now," she said. "This is really, really like bad, bad, worse than hell, worse than hell."
She directed some of her anger at Philippines President Benigno Aquino III, who on Sunday toured some of the areas hit hardest by the typhoon, including Tacloban.
Many of the people in the city, population 200,000, are angry at the authorities' slow response to the disaster.
Aquino said there was a breakdown, especially at the local government level.
"They are necessary first responders, and too many of them were also affected and did not report for work," he explained, saying that contributed to the slow delivery.
Aquino said the government will coordinate with the local units and put more people to work.
Supplies become scarce
In Tacloban, the search for food and water led to increasingly desperate efforts.
Video showed people breaking into grocery stores and cash machines in the city.
National police and the military sent reinforcements to the city Sunday to prevent such thefts. And authorities said they were sending several hundred additional security personnel into the city to keep law and order.
Another dire scene played out in the city's only functioning hospital. Doctors couldn't admit any more wounded victims -- there wasn't enough room. Some of the injured lay in the hospital's cramped hallways seeking treatment.
"We haven't anything left to help people with," one of the doctors said. "We have to get supplies in immediately."
Complicating the search efforts is the lack of electricity in many parts of the storm's path.


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The northern part of Bogo, in the central Philippines, suffered a blackout Sunday, and authorities said it will take months to restore power.
Crews search for victims, survivors
Romualdez, Tacloban's mayor, told CNN that reports 10,000 people may have died in Leyte province were "entirely possible."
"People here were convinced that it looked like a tsunami," he said.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said it is fairly realistic to estimate that 10,000 people may have died nationally, because many areas are unreachable by organizations.
"In the western islands of Philippines, for instance, no one can evaluate the casualties," said ICRC spokesman David Pierre Marquet.
"It could effectively be a number close to 10,000," Marquet told CNN. "But the notion that 10,000 people are dead in Tacloban alone is not possible."
Aid groups struggle to reach those suffering
The UN's World Food Programme is setting up logistic pipelines to transport food and other relief items.
"The main challenges right now are related to logistics," said WFP representative Praveen Agrawal, who returned to Manila from the affected areas on Sunday. "Roads are blocked, airports are destroyed."
Interactive map of the storm
WFP spokeswoman Bettina Luescher said the U.N. group was gearing up its global resources to send enough food to feed 120,000 people.
"These high-energy biscuits will keep them alive," she said.
Luescher pleaded for financial support from the international community and directed those wishing to donate to wfp.org/typhoon.
"Those are families like you and me, and they just need our help right now," she said.
Philippines gets more than its share of disasters
Typhoon makes landfall in Vietnam
The massive losses in the Philippines have put much of Vietnam on edge. Authorities evacuated around 600,000 people from vulnerable areas as the typhoon neared, the Vietnamese government's official online newspaper VGP News reported.
Haiyan made landfall around 4 a.m. Monday (4 p.m. Sunday ET) with sustained winds of 120 kph (75 mph) and gusts of 150 kph (93 mph). At least six people were initially reported to have died as a result of the storm, according to VGP.
The storm had weakened by the time it hit Vietnam, and it was downgraded to a tropical storm after making landfall. But it's still expected to cause heavy rain and flooding in northern Vietnam and southern China.
Tropical cyclones with sustained surface winds of 74 mph or more are known as typhoons when they form west of the international date line. East of the line, they're known as hurricanes.
An enormous blow
Haiyan may be the strongest tropical cyclone in recorded history, but meteorologists said it will take further analysis to confirm whether it set a record.
The typhoon was 3.5 times more forceful than Hurricane Katrina, which hit the United States 2005.
It wasn't the storm's 250-kph (155-mph) gusts that caused most of the damage -- it was a mammoth storm surge that reached up to 5 meters (16 feet) high.
"This disaster on such a scale will probably have us working for the next year," said Sandra Bulling, international communications officer for the aid agency CARE. "Fishermen have lost their boats. Crops are devastated. This is really the basic income of many people."

Andrew Stevens and Paula Hancocks reported from Tacloban; Holly Yan and Chandrika Narayan reported and wrote from Atlanta. CNN's Kristie Lu Stout, Melissa Le Fevre, Aliza Kassim, Kevin Wang, Jessica King, Judy Kwon, Pedram Javaheri, Tom Watkins, David Simpson, Elwyn Lopez, Michael Martinez, Neda Farshbaf and Yousuf Basil also contributed to this report. 





















































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Panorama shows Haiyan wreckage

updated 8:12 PM EST, Tue November 19, 2013




A dozen body bags line the street in Tacloban -- one of the towns hardest hit by Super Typhoon Haiyan -- as locals walk through the destruction of what used to be their homes.



Cadaver dogs aid in typhoon recovery

updated 3:07 PM EST, Tue November 19, 2013




Cadaver dog teams are on the ground in the Philippines, helping to locate victims still buried in the rubble.



'The Filipino spirit is alive among us'

updated 5:02 AM EST, Tue November 19, 2013




CNN's Airmie Jarin-Bennett, an expat Filipino, returned to her native land after Typhoon Haiyan. Nothing prepared her for what she found there.



Desperate mom finds lost family

updated 11:27 PM EST, Mon November 18, 2013




As thousands of traumatized typhoon survivors struggled to escape the stricken city of Tacloban, Gina Ladrera was desperate to get back in. 



Drone's view of typhoon devastation 

updated 8:49 AM EST, Mon November 18, 2013




Karl Penhaul reports from the middle of the Tacloban devastation using a drone camera to get a bird's eye view. 



Amphibious ships join relief effort

updated 12:37 PM EST, Mon November 18, 2013




The USS George Washington is expected to leave the Philippines once two amphibious ships arrive there Wednesday, officials say.



Golfer loses eight relatives to typhoon

updated 8:00 AM EST, Mon November 18, 2013




The golf community is rallying around Jason Day after it emerged the Australian lost eight members of his family during the devastation wreaked by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.



Celebs help raise money for Haiyan aid

updated 4:41 PM EST, Mon November 18, 2013




The aftermath of Haiyan and the need for aid has celebrities working phones and taking donations. Max Foster reports.



Typhoon aid boosts U.S. soft power

updated 11:26 PM EST, Mon November 18, 2013




As an expression of hard power, they don't come bigger or more fearsome than the USS George Washington. 



A baby born in wreckage clings to life 

updated 3:21 AM EST, Mon November 18, 2013




The tiny, baby girl barely moves as she lies wrapped in a bundle of yellow plastic and green cloth on a peeling brown mattress made for a child far larger than she.



US aircraft carrier boosts relief effort

updated 9:04 PM EST, Mon November 18, 2013




The USS George Washington is on the front lines of the aid mission in the Philippines. CNN's Anna Coren reports.



Typhoon aftermath: Religion as solace

updated 1:12 AM EST, Mon November 18, 2013




The day after the typhoon, Father Edwin Bacaltos stepped out of the compound of the Church of Our Mother of Perpetual Help in central Tacloban and began his work.



Interactive: Haiyan's path of disaster

updated 12:33 AM EST, Fri November 15, 2013




Explore stories from typhoon survivors, relief workers, and officials from eight regions across the Philippines.



A mother's grief: I wish I was dead

updated 6:47 PM EST, Sun November 17, 2013




A distraught mother who lost her young sons in the tidal surge of Super Typhoon Haiyan feels her life is over.



Video shows moment typhoon hit 

updated 2:45 PM EST, Sun November 17, 2013




This video shows how strong the storm surge was during Super Typhoon Haiyan. 



Philippines survivors crowd airport

updated 9:02 AM EST, Sun November 17, 2013




CNN's Anna Coren reports from Tacloban's airport as Typhoon Haiyan survivors wait to evacuate.



Many waiting for help in remote areas 

updated 9:21 AM EST, Fri November 15, 2013




The Philippine govt. is defending its efforts against accusations people there are not getting desperately needed help.



How to help Typhoon Haiyan survivors

updated 2:21 PM EST, Fri November 22, 2013




How charities and nongovernmental organizations from around the world are responding to the disaster, and how you can help them make a difference.



Photos: Typhoon Haiyan

updated 6:54 PM EST, Wed November 27, 2013




The storm affected 4.3 million people in 36 provinces and displaced more than 340,000. 



Children among Haiyan victims

updated 6:33 PM EST, Wed November 27, 2013




Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest storms in recorded history, left thousands of victims in its wake.



Typhoon Haiyan relief efforts

updated 6:24 PM EST, Wed November 27, 2013




Troops and aid organizations help Filipinos struggling to survive the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest storms in recorded history.



Hear typhoon slam into the Philippines

updated 6:59 PM EST, Mon November 11, 2013




CNN reporters capture sounds and images of Typhoon Haiyan's devastating trek through Tacloban, Philippines.



Town crushed by 'giant hand'

updated 7:40 AM EST, Mon November 11, 2013




'I was gob-smacked as we made our final approach into the ruins of the airport in Tacloban,' says CNN's Ivan Watson.



Photos: Haiyan's wrath from above

updated 9:58 AM EST, Sat December 7, 2013




Flattened forests and flooded villages in the Philippines seen from the air.


 

















   
     










