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The nba all-star game. fans will be tuning in to see how the pelicans' anthony davis does filling in for the injured kobe bryant. at least davis will have the support of his hometown as the game will be played in new orleans. tipoff is at 8:00 p.m. on tnt. and that's your weekly five. i want to go to the crisis in syria. more than 600 people were evacuated from the city of homs today. the evacuations just hours after an attack on u.n. relief workers that were trying to deliver food and supplies the people trapped for months from fighting between the government and rebels. mohammad jinjune up...

Hospitals are struggling to treat thousands of injured. the death toll is raised to 4400. the need for help, as you might imagine, immense. literally spelled out in the streets in some places. strained relief workers are faced with a grim choice. health care for the living or remove the dead. the bodies everywhere. there's a growing risk of the spread of disease. storm victims by the hundreds wait in line to get military flights away from the destruction. >> the people like us, very ordinary, can't go to manila. we suffer from hunger. no water. no medicine. >> the u.s. alone has deployed 5,000...

Like that. then some of the houses were just destroyed and some are no more now. >> it's so difficult for everyone there. relief workers worry about disease and infections. pools of standing water and a breakdown in sanitation can trigger outbreaks. anderson cooper visited an overwhelmed health clinic jammed with patients in tacloban. >> it's like this every day now in this overcrowded clinic at tacloban airport, there are too many people, not enough supplies. >> it's a little bit chaotic. >> it looks very chaotic. >> as you can see, we don't have any medicines. we don't have any supplies. we ...

Crucially, along with the winds and heavy rain, there was an unexpectedly massive storm surge of up to 20 feet, and that's not a wave that is 20 feet, that is a wall of water 20 feet higher than the sea usually is. in the end, it was that flooding resulting from the risen sea which took filipino authorities by surprise and which did the most damage. the "l.a. times" reporting that between 2 and 3 million people may have lost their homes. the official death toll stood at 1,774 people as of earlier tonight, but officials and relief workers are expressing near certainty that thousands more people...

Desperate i have seen in covering disasters over the last couple years, jake. >> anderson, where are the relief workers and where are the people looking for help? and how can they not be brought together? >> reporter: well, there are certainly a lot of people who would like help. i was out yesterday just walking neighborhoods nearby here. it's very hard to get a vehicle so you just walk around and found a handful of people right away. everybody we talked to has lost somebody and is literally searching for somebody. one woman searching for three of her children. another woman has already found ...