Relief Efforts Continue in Philippines
KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Hello, everyone. I'm Kyra Phillips in for Brooke Baldwin. How ironic that on this Veterans Day, we honor the U.S. military. We're seeing America's best respond to what may be the worst disaster the Philippines has ever experienced. The country's president has now declared a state of national calamity with as many as 9.5 million people impacted. But three days after Super Typhoon Haiyan hit, no one knows how high the death toll could get and now we believe 10,000 lives have been lost, and another storm still on the way. CNN international, Kristie Lu Stout live in Manila now. Kristie, a crucial step as we've been talking about today is getting aid to the survivors. Have the U.S. Marines arrived?</s>KRISTIE LU STOUT, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: They have arrived. And they are making a big difference already. It's 4:00 a.m. in the morning here in the Philippines. There have been no aid flights all night because there's no power on the ground, there's no power in hard-hit Tacloban City, no power to light up the runways so the pilot can safely land. But U.S. Marines are now on the ground in hard-hit Tacloban City. They're there with C-130 aircraft. They're there with aid and they're there with a plan to make that airport functional on a 24-hour basis, even at this time of night, the much-needed aid could be flown in to the survivors who desperately need it. The Philippines, their special forces are also on the ground there, providing aid and also a plan to restore order and restore law. Now, meanwhile, the survivors there, they are struggling. Remember, this storm, it made landfall about four days ago, 4:00 a.m. local time on Friday. They have been closed up, sealed off from the outside world for four days now. They desperately need just the essentials, food, water, medicine, power generators, shelter, et cetera. Some of the survivors have been speaking with CNN there in Tacloban City, and they say what they're going through is worse than hell, and they also say -- these are doctors talking to CNN there in the impact sight, saying that they can't go on because they don't have the medicine and supplies they need to help people there on the ground -- Kyra, back to you.</s>PHILLIPS: Well, Kristie, and now Chad Myers is telling us about another storm that is forming. How are survivors getting ready for that?</s>STOUT: That's right. It's a very, very frightening scenario here. We have a new storm system, high possibility it will turn into a storm system southeast of the Philippines. It looks like it's following the same path as the Super Typhoon Haiyan. And it's going to add more rain, which is the last thing that the displaced needs. According to the Philippines government, over 600,000 people are displaced, 600,000 people are homeless because of the super typhoon. In addition to that, because of that super typhoon, the ground is already saturated. Even if it's an insignificant rainmaker, a minor storm system, it can cause major damage because the area will be that much more prone for landslides, mudslides, and also flooding, a very worrying scenario -- back to you, Kyra.</s>PHILLIPS: Kristie Lu Stout, we will be talking a lot. Thanks. As Kristie mentioned, the United Nations says more than 600,000 Filipinos are displaced from Haiyan, which wiped out multiple locations, by the way, in the Philippines, including Tacloban. Many people are haunted by what Haiyan took from them. One mother talked to "The Philippine Daily Inquirer" about seeing her daughter life. Listen to this chilling quote: "'Ma, just let go, save yourself,' said the girl whose body was pierced by wooden splinters. 'I was holding her and I kept telling her to hang on, that I was going to bring her up, but she just gave up.'" Well, the grief, the devastation, survivors are overwhelmed. Adding to it all is a stench that they can't escape. Here's CNN's Paula Hancocks. And a warning, too, her story has some pretty disturbing images.</s>PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): This sign refers to a very different time. Now all that greets visitors on the road to Tacloban is devastation. (on camera): Three days on since the storm itself, there are still bodies by the side of the road. Now, we can't show you the faces of these bodies. It's just too graphic. You can still see the terror as the wave hit on the faces of these bodies. And they're still here three days on. Some of them are crudely covered. Other are just open and have blackened skin from the sun. Now, the officials say they're looking at the living, which is what you would understand, but they have to get rid of the bodies. This is a health issue for those people living and trying to survive around here. The stench is overpowering. And, of course, they have to start considering disease. This is the Tacloban convention center. We're told by the locals that a lot people came in here to try and protect themselves from the storm. But as you can see, the water reached the second story. And the locals say that anyone on the ground floor not expecting this storm surge simply didn't make it. (voice-over): Many residents used this school as a shelter from the storm, but the water engulfed it. This resident says a lot of children died in here. Only a few managed to survive. No one knows how many lost their lives. Down the road, a public well is being put to use.</s>ROSELDA STUMAPIT, VICTIM: Right now, we don't have enough water. Even though we are not sure that it's clean and safe, we still drink from it because we need to survive.</s>HANCOCKS: We see just two trucks in two hours making their very slow way into the city at the heart of desperation. Paula Hancocks, CNN, Tacloban, the Philippines.</s>PHILLIPS: Well, that was rough to watch. You know, within all that devastation, here's a moment that actually gave people not only a glimmer of hope, but happiness. A woman actually gave birth to this baby girl at a makeshift medical center. She labored on a dirty piece of plywood surrounded by wreckage left behind from the storm. The mother went into labor early this morning, we're told, and had to walk several miles to the airport before catching a ride. And here's the gut-wrencher. She named that baby girl after her mom, who has been missing since the storm hit. It turns out that Haiyan may be the strongest storm on record now. We're talking sustained winds 195 miles per hour. Even sturdy evacuation shelters were no match for 16-foot-high storm surge. As the storm crossed the string of the Philippine islands, huge walls of water pushed ashore, carrying debris, and, yes, people with it, and the danger is far from over.</s>PHILLIPS: And, tonight, CNN's Anderson Cooper will be in Manila for a close-up look at the destruction and how aid workers and survivors are coming together now for that recovery effort. That's tonight, 8:00 and 10:00 Eastern right on CNN. And coming up, what caused a cougar to maul a worker to death inside a cage at an animal sanctuary? We're going to talk with an expert. Plus, nearly a year after a Newtown police officer saw the horrors inside Sandy Hook, he still isn't back at work. And now he could lose his job. Does he even have a case? And PG-13 movies, they are supposed to be less violent, less racy than R-rated ones, but a new study suggests that's not the case. We will discuss it next.