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Something like $25,000 per hour. does that sound like a legitimate request? he later said that they withdrew the request because they found another means of secure communication. >> thanks for having me, with anderso anderson. its a dubious justification. cabinet-level officials, including the treasury secretary travel all the time. there are a lot of other means of secure communications. i entertain these officials when i was ambassador, abroad. there was no need for him to take a government je...

So many extraordinary people. a lot of times on a story like this well put it together in kind of an essay format in a reporters notebook. heres mine for this week. >> when everything else is taken away, broken and battered, stripped raw, bare, you see people as they really are. this week in tacloban, samar and cebu amidst the hunger and thirst, the chaos and confusion, weve seen the best in the filipino people. their strength, their courage. i cant get it out of my mind. imagine the strength it...

>> reporter: this is where it ends for so many. without ceremony or even their name spoken softly. the corpses that have littered tacloban as so much of the city leaves come to rest here. until parts of the horror of how they must have died. but they leave many questions, too, among the overpowering smell of looming disease. its a cold but necessary process, the accounting of the dead that happens here. and the condition they arrive in after days in the open and the impact of flood waters, grues...

They didnt have blood supplies for a transfusion and could not save him as they operated on him. the doctors tell me that if they had blood and they asked for it and it is certainly in stock in other cities and towns around the philippines, they could have saved this mans life whose initial injury was a broken leg. anderso anderson? >> i mean, lets just pause an think about that for a moment. a man who had a broken leg is now dead because there wasnt blood supplies, and he had gotten an infectio...

Watson is joining us from tacloban with an update on what has happened to this man. also joined by nick payton walsh here in manila. ivan, you were just at the hospital. this picture has captivated, been in newspapers, seen on television around the world. you have a update now on whats happening. whats going on? >> reporter: anderson, im very sad to report that the man photographed there, 27-year-old richard pulga who had an open fracture of his right leg basically his two shin bones, passed awa...

That are still standing are starting to get a bit overwhelmed. people are starting to come with these really severe infections but also with the chronic diseases and things that people just generally get sick from. upper respiratory tract infections and viral diseases. the hardest part again, logistics. theres very little drugs, very little staff. and its hard to get people here and its hard to get these drugs here at the moment. >> what do you need? do you have all the supplies that you need as...