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Nine days after typhoon haiyan left parts of the country in ruins. Tens of thousands of victims are starting to get medical care as food and water is being dropped to isolated areas. Lets bring in craig leeson who is in tacloban. Is International Aid finally getting to the hard to reach places. It is starting to trickle through. We are seeing a lot of aid come in here at the air force base in cebu. Its piling in and being distributed to areas in need particularly tacloban in leyte, the epicentre of this disaster. But the challenge has been getting it from tacloban out into the the regions from there that are hard to reach. Many of them are still cut off. There is only power to four of the 30 provinces hit by the typhoon. There are difficulties that aid workers are still seeing that were there from day one. We travelled up to bantayan yesterday with a cargo shift, one of the first aid relief and witnessed the hunger of people as ....
Good morning, welcome to Al Jazeera America, im morgan radford. Relief efforts are picking up nine days after typhoon haiyan struck the philippines. More than 3,600 died. Those who survived are finally getting the help that they need. Food, water and medical supplies have started getting to areas that were completely cut off by the storm. The u. S. Military is now dropping food and water to survivors in the area. But more than 1,000 people are still missing. Some 4 Million People are homeless. For the latest we are going to talk about talk to craig leeson, who is standing by in the philippines. First lets tell you about an attack in afghanistan where more than 2,000 afghan elders will meet in kabul. Theyll vote on the future of u. S. Troops in afghanistan. The u. S. Is trying to hammer out an agreement to keep forces on the ground beyond 2014. That effort was dealt a blow ....