In Tacloban, the survivors are living among the dead. Driving into town we saw dozens of bodies rotting by the roadside. Three days after the typhoon struck, there was nobody to bury them.
People in the streets are covering their faces with handkerchiefs to try and mask the stench. Many are searching for loved ones who are still missing. With all phone lines down there's no way of knowing other than to go out and try and find them. In the centre of town barely a single building is left standing. The streets reduced to a mess of twisted debris. A wall of water hit this city. The scenes are reminiscent of the Asian Tsunami of and of Japan in The city's battered airport is now the hub of the aid operation.
But at the moment it's simply not getting here fast enough. At the airport's gates, hundreds of people gathered this morning, desperate to get their hands on any aid they could. She said she was sleeping by the roadside after her house was flattened. Next to the airport's control tower we heard screams of pain where a makeshift hospital has been set up. Many of the injured are being treated without anaesthetics.
A man in his thirties twists in agony as medics work on a huge bloody gash to his left leg. In a room next door a woman has just given birth laid out among the debris. She tells us her newborn daughter is named Baja Joy.
Born into a world upturned. Next to her another young woman is also in labour. In what's left of the airport's terminal, hundreds of people are lining up desperate to get out of Tacloban on any plane they can.
