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Elderly parents, because that means that they will receive more ice for food, more ice for medicine. most of the people here still have no power at home, so it is really a life and death situation for many of these folks in this line. so saying that they will send a three star general to the island, it just doesn't translate in the streets right now. we do know that according to the white house, there are 7200 troops in puerto rico and 2800 federal relief worker, but just don't see them all that much in the streets. what you see is lines for fuel, medicine. and now this line for ice. and i act...

One caught this outside kathmandu, the capital, already damaged. you can see thick dust rising as more of the structure collapsed. kayla robinson is a relief worker for world vision and joins me via skype from kathmandu. this has to be terrifying. where were you when it hit? what went through your mind? >> today, everybody's fears were realized. i was about to have lunch when the walls shook. people began screaming, crying pushing out into the street into the moving traffic. when i followed anymore, sure enough you turned around and could see the building we were in rocking like this for sever...

The richter scale that's kept people frozen in fear. it's nighttime now. in the building i'm in the streets have people spending the night outside. they're too afraid to go home. their fear is that a homes and buildings will collapse on them. they're choosing to spend the night out this the cold instead. >> aftershock wise, there's been at least six that measured around five which is pretty tremendous for this already ravaged area from april's earthquake. kayla robinson relief worker with world vision. please stay safe. thank you for hard work in the rebuilding efforts. thank you. now retrac...

>> reporter: small planes have been conducting survey in the outer islands. vanuatu has dozens of islands. this is one of the problems. we're trying to figure out the damage around the capital city it's still difficult to get phone calls out to some of the more remote islands. difficult to get an assessment of damage or potential loss of life on some of these smaller islands. the sgns that the disaster management center -- gones isgones is that the disaster management center reports that this is the worst storm that many have seen in generations. a category five cyclone. harder still to figure...

In vanuatu with care international, an aid group helping victims and she joins us now on the phone. tell us we just reported that relief worker is reporting unbelievable destruction. what do you see? what's the state of the city on the ground? >>. >> yes hi thank you for having me. absolutely. we woke this morning to absolute devastation here. and we did get out into the town this afternoon to get an idea of how the devastation is. we're talking up rooted trees, palms everywhere roofs have been ripped off and debris everywhere. roads are blocked and it completely destroys. i can't imagine how ...