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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. it's 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 jet at $25,000 an hour on his honeymoon. so i'm not buying that. we'll find out the answer, the w wat...

So many extraordinary people. a lot of times on a story like this we'll put it together in kind of an essay format in a reporter's notebook. here's 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, we've seen the best in the filipino people. their strength, their courage. i can't get it out of my mind. imagine the strength it takes for a mother to search alone for her missing kids. [ speaking foreign language ] >> the ...

>> 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. it's 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, gruesome, sometimes unrecognizable. but for the relatives who come here in search of their loved ones, i...

They didn't 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 man's life whose initial injury was a broken leg. anderso anderson? >> i mean, let's just pause an think about that for a moment. a man who had a broken leg is now dead because there wasn't blood supplies, and he had gotten an infection that there weren't antibiotics to treat. so when people hear when the government has talked ab...

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 what's happening. what's going on? >> reporter: anderson, i'm 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 away on friday, doctors tell me. they operated on him. he was terribly infected. he had a terrible i...