Eye Storm News Today

The worst winter sernlly lived up to the hype. >> ice picks, snow shovels and flip-flops were in short supply today, depending on which part of new york people were in. check this out, an eye storm and below-freezing temperatures was in up state new york. alexander, when i left new york, it was cold. were three days untim christmas and youre in a t-shirt. >> yeah, rosa, most of the day out here in a t-shirt on december 22nd. something we vnt seen before. the last record was set in 1988. you can ...

>> and andrew stevens joins me with paula and nick paton walsh. youve been here during the storm and throughout. how frustrated are you by the relief effort here? have you seen much of a relief effort? >> increasingly frustrated and obviously not just me, anderson. you walk around downtown tacloban and there is piles of rotting garbage and carcasses of animals and no real evidence of organized recovery, organized relief going on. i saw a van handing out packages of three-day relief. that was per...

Lifted up from somewhere and put on top of the jeep and the smell of rotting -- the smell of decay is everywhere around here. thats a cow, thats a dead cow. and it looks like behind it, there is the body of a person covered in a green cloth. thats not an uncommon site here unfortunately, still five days into this storm. our andrew stevens went out with the mayor of tacloban, here is what he saw. >> in tack lloban city, they ar calling him the ghost. many people here thought the citys mayor had d...

Can, despite to find a dry, safe stop. people around here have no place to go. a lot of them who may have evacuated before the storm are back in what used to be their homes. there is a makeshift shack somebody constructed over there. they tried to collect all the things they could salvage but its not much. in many places not much is left but rubble and the sound of pets waiting for owners who may never return. this makeshift coffin has a piece of rock with the name of a baby whose been placed in...

If you look at the devastation down there, it will take a long time to find out what is under that rubble and consider this was a 600 kill lom per eye storm, the eye passed 10 kilometers to the south, kevin station right down this coast. >> when we were covering the tsunami in japan just a few years ago, i remember on day one or day two there were members of the japanese and national defense force out -- even though they didnt have heavy earth moving equipment, they were out with sticks trying t...

>> the local police force, a lot of them, according to the mayor, a lot of them didnt show up in the wake of this obviously. they had their own issues to worry about. their own families to take care of. its hard -- i dont think pictures as many different pictures as we take its really hard to get in that small little camera lens and just the scope of the devastation, even though its not as big as a tsunami in 2004 and as we saw in sri lanka, in this area its total. >> complete particularly down ...

She doesnt believe they survived the storm. where will you sleep tonight? yea >> yeah, in the street. anywhere. i dont know where i go. >> in tacloban, there isnt anyplace to go. martinez is living in a make-shift shelter. his daughter and wife are covered with sacks nearby. i really want someone to collect their bodies he says. i want to know where they are taken so then i can light a candle for them. he cooks rice and noodles for his neighbors. one of the men wants to call his mother in manila...

Everybody that will listen that when i left, they needed help and they needed help now. not in a few days, not in a few hours, they needed it now and they needed a lot of it. >> thats certainly still the case. i appreciate you taking the time to talk to us, thank you. >> thank you. and certainly still the case at this difficult hour. when we come back, well show you the children affected by this storm. [ tires screech ] ♪ [ male announcer ] 1.21 gigawatts. today, thats easy. ge is revolution...

can and we will hope for the best as mom likes to say. >> we will be covering this very, very closely. as we always do at cnn. in fact, jim acosta takes over our coverage right now in the "cnn newsroom." jim, take it away. >> thanks, guys, very much. good morning, everybody. it is almost here. hurricane irene is curving closer and closer to tens of millions of people. waves and wind already kicking up and the first rains will soak the southeast today. this is a big storm. hundreds of m...

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