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>> the local police force, a lot of them, according to the mayor, a lot of them didn't show up in the wake of this obviously. they had their own issues to worry about. their own families to take care of. it's hard -- i don't think pictures as many different pictures as we take it's really hard to get in that small little camera lens and just the scope of the devastation, even though it's not as big as a tsunami in 2004 and as we saw in sri lanka, in this area it's total. >> complete particularly down on the waterfront area where a lot of towns are, that's absolutely flattened and the question,...

She doesn't believe they survived the storm. where will you sleep tonight? yea >> yeah, in the street. anywhere. i don't know where i go. >> in tacloban, there isn't 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. he's desperate to tell her he and his daughter survived, though his wife and two other children...

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. >> that's 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, we'll show you the children affected by this storm. [ tires screech ] ♪ [ male announcer ] 1.21 gigawatts. today, that's easy. ge is revolutionizing power. supercharging turbines with advanced hardware and innovative software. using data pr...

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 miles across and even from space, it is a monster. an astronaut on the international space station ca...

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