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You were there when haiyan hit. you got a real sense of the devastation, how are the people living in these conditions because they were living in vulnerable conditions already. >> that is right, they have for years, many of these people suffered the most, particularly in haiyan. now, the people who survived haiyan, some have been relocated. there are still many people living in temporary accommodations. some, a few hundred are still living in tents. so the government is worried about them. many people are around here as i speak to you. there is a big difference just walking around the city in...

Babies have been born in the last three days. very beautiful baby. >> it's a boy. >> i know. he is very beautiful. a healthy baby boy named haiyan, named for a storm he will know nothing about. anderson cooper, cnn, tacloban, the philippines. >> people see something like this and want to try to help. please go to our website cnn.com/impact, a list of all kinds of way to participate in the relief effort there and they desperately need help. president obama picked to head of the federal reserve goes to capitol hill for a confirmation here. janet yelleden is to say the best way to survive the e...

To florida. look at the damage this has done on an unprecedented scale. so what if a super typhoon like haiyan hit the united states? to give you an idea, as i showed you, that was the super imposed image. but when you talk about some of these wind speeds, 235 miles per ho hour, that's a category five. katrina hit much, much weaker than that. i guess the question is, the united states, is it prepared? >> no. that's the simple answer. because it's almost impossible to imagine being prepared for something like this. we've been trying to figure out the true scope of a storm like this all day long...

Point out front is what if haiyan hit the united states. when you look at the scope here, it gives you a sense. you can't imagine what this would be like. the united states, something like hurricane sandy or katrina are seen as so horrific -- they were, but they pale in comparison to this one. 10,000 or more feared dead. look at this map right now. that is if you put haiyan along the coastal united states. see stretching from canada down to florida. philippines is used to these kind of massive typhoons. look at the damage this has done on an unprecedented scale. so what if a super typhoon like...

Before the storm came. they are used to severe weather here. many didn't heed those warnings. but nobody, nobody, thought about the damage, the devastation that would be caused by the storm surge. that five meter wall of water. that's is what is killer has been. all along this coastal strip there is complete devastation. we don't know what is under that devastation yet if there are bodies still under there that becomes the high risk area. disease. disease will sweep through this area so quickly. that is why supplies are so critically desperate. and that is why we keep on talking about this, ge...