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Their homes completely and utterly destroyed. rescue crews have been taking advantage of every daylight hour trying to find survivors. but they are trying to get into the remote towns and villages. weather conditions are hampering the helicopter flights it's the only way in to a lot of the smaller places that are otherwise completely cut off from the outside world. nepalese families living in the united states are trying to get in touch with relatives living in nepal. in some cases they have got through but the news is not good. >> they said they couldn't dig them out. they don't have the heli...

Checking headlines around the world, first to tacloban, one of the cities hardest hit by the supertyphoon in the philippines. cnn's ana corrine is at the airport, where people are trying to escape the devastation. ana? >> reporter: here at tacloban airport, there are thousands of people who are gathered in the hope that they can get out of this devastated city. many of them have been waiting patiently here for days, camping out. they've brought their luggage, which is really all that remains of their belongings. they're hoping to either get to manilla or somewhere where they can meet up with f...

I'll ask him what is in the bill that could affect the affordable care act. turning now to the philippines where hunger and frustration are reaching their peek. the death toll just above 3600. hundreds of international aid workers have set up makeshift hospitals to treat those who have been turned away from hospitals or can't get to them. humanitarian aid is finally starting to trickle in. we're in tacloban with more on the relief efforts. >> reporter: the aid operation is very much under way and growing by the day. at the moment it could be described as patchy and some people would say too ...

Who for so many of them have lost everything, loved ones, their homes, they come here carrying whatever they have left. they're getting off vessels bringing them here to cebu. for those with family and friends around the country, they'll be sent there. those with no relatives will be put up in evacuation centers around the city. these people are broken. you know, they are shell shocked, they are depressed. those that we spoke to said they have no idea how they're going to rebuild their lives. that's obviously where aid agencies and the filipino government will make a step up and assist these p...

Will help in structuring aid this time? >> yeah, i think to me, the most vivid memory of the tsunami, which we see the pictures, is nowadays, you see how houses have been swept away, and often the only thing that's left are the kitchen floors, the tiles. nothing else is there. where families, you know, had spent their days together, now everything is gone. and i think that is to me the horrible memory of when i look and compare. i think we've learned huge lessons of how we coordinate, how we operate, how we really bring everybody together, and let me explain how that works. we run for the u.n....