70 years. The body count is rising as desperate typhoon survivors cling to hope of aid and rescue. Good morning and welcome to al Jazeera America. The death toll is above 2300 the the union warns it will spike. The red cross is preparing to send 1500 body bags to the region. The first mass burial took place outside tacloban without ceremony. 40,000 people in tacloban got water, rice, canned goods and victims. Each ration is enough to feed a family for 23 days. Another shipment is expected today. The u. S. S. George washington is arriving today, carrying 5,000 sailors to aid in the rescue and relief efforts of the the arriving of the Aircraft Carrier will trip the the number of helicopters. Theyll help to deliver hundreds of thousands of gallons of water. In a town in northern cebu one person was killed in the storm. It suffered significant damage. Officials say requests for aid have gone unanswered. Al jazeeras correspondent is on the island in northern cebu with this report. Many peop
We begin with an address of bad news for the president its a setback for the Affordable Care act. As lisa stark reports, numbers are not good. Reporter they are not the numbers the Obama Administration hoped for. 106,000 americans have signed up for health plans under the Affordable Care act. 75 did so through the staterun websites only a quarter fewer than 21,000 used the federal exchange. House Speaker John Boehner called it a rolling calamity that must be scrapped. They faced tough questions from the republicans about the rollout. This was a monumental mistake to go live and explode on the launch pad. On the other side of the aisle democrats say republicans want nothing more than to dismantle the Affordable Care act known as obamacare. Nobody in this country believes that republicans want to fix the website. Caught in the crossfire two Key Technology officials, repeatedly questioned about why after years of work and hundreds of millions the website was not completely tested before i
Violence. A cracksmoking mayor of toronto admits buying Illegal Drugs, but will not step down goodbye to a legend. Indias Sachin Tendulkar is playing his final test match. Almost a week after typhoon haiyan hit the philippines hundreds of thousands of people are in desperate need of help. We have correspondents covering the story from the worstaffected areas in cebu. Aid is clogged up at the port, unable to get to people in dire need of help. We have that story. Seth is in a town of madeline where residents are waiting for food and medicine. First Marga Ortigas armed men are causing fear among the population at tacloban. The National Government said they have cleared most of the roads needed to get goods to the people the victims of typhoon haiyan. As you can see here in leyte, many of the roads are quite impassable. As far as the people here are concerned they have heard the news that is painted, but its not quite the reality they are seeing on the ground. They are concerned about sec
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While some universities in California are negotiating with student protestors, hundreds of students and faculty throughout the state are facing legal and academic repercussions for protesting the Israel-Hamas war.