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They are in need of food and water. >> reporter: carrying all they could from their devastated lives. a steady stream of victims keeps arriving at the airport looking for food, water and escape. this woman lost her home and business and is desperate to leave on the next military plane. >> get international help to come here now. this is really really like bad bad worse than hell. worse than hell. >> reporter: as the president of the philippines arrives to assess the damage. she causes on her anger. >> we need to get the word out. the fiphilippines government cat do it on their own. >> too many...

Vietnam where it is expected to make landfall today. alexandra steel has more from the weather center. >> certainly this not nearly the monster that it was when it raked over the fiphilippines. a shadow of that now. maximum sustained winds of 85 miles per hour. it will make land fall this evening which is monday morning local time and when it does so it actually may even just be a tropical storm at that point with winds only 40 miles per hour and it heads towards tuesday it moves north. the winds not nearly a factor. but we will see wind gusts and rain. look at the rain we could see east towar...

Welcome back. it is just past 900 a.m. in the morning the philippines, family here in the united states and around the world bracing for bad news. we're expecting to learn the scope of the damage from possibly the strongest storm ever, ever recorded. joining us now from manila, australia's special broadcasting service. kath kathy, kel tell me about the area the typhoon hit hardest. buildings may not be constructed well. >> reporter: that's right. the pill phohilippines is made islands and people have their houses build up along the coast. it may no be houses like viewers picture. they are make...

Look at that monster storm. we got a correspondent in the city taklabom. we haven't heard from him since the storm hit. we've been reportedly trying to get in contact with him and can't. news organizations, aid organizations, families trying to reach loved ones, none it seems can establish contact. so there is much we do not yet know at this hour, especially out how many were killed or hurt in the typhoon, the confirmed number right now is small but looking at pictures of the storm coming ashore, it's hard to imagine that number won't rise. >> oh my god, wow, wow, oh, no. >> this is a look ins...

In many of these regions, some reports we're hering is the evacuation centers themselves have been damaged and roofs ripped clean off. i think there will be still a lot of reports of damage and destruction in these areas to come, anderson. >> do you have a sense how prepared people were, the government was for a storm of this magnitude? nobody has seen a storm of this magnitude in the country, the fi philippines where they are used to typhoons. >> reporter: they are used to them. we get 20 typhoons a year in the philippines, nothing like this. there were early warnings this would be a major ev...