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2 dead, 1 missing in Central, Eastern Visayas due to Bising NDRRMC By JOVILAND RITA, GMA News Published April 20, 2021 1:54pm Two people were killed while one was missing in the Visayas due to the onslaught of Typhoon Bising, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said Tuesday. In its latest report on the effects of Bising, the NDRRMC said the two fatalities were from Central Visayas and Eastern Visayas while the missing person was from Eastern Visayas. One person was also reportedly injured in Central Visayas. A total of 68, 490 people or 18, 467 families were evacuated in Bicol and Eastern Visayas regions due to Bising. A total of 50, 523 persons or 12, 913 families were affected. ....
Satellite image. if that typhoon had hit here, it could have hit most of the east coast. look at the size of haiyan in comparison to hurricane katrina. that s wild. we ll tap the global resources of cnn to bring you the most comprehensive coverage of the crisis in the philippines. we start off with anderson cooper. he s in tacloban. anderson, hoping you can hear us. what strikes you on the ground? we re being told this is unprecedented. it s truly a desperate situation on the ground. i was out just walking in some of the neighborhoods today. i mean, you don t see there s not really an organized relief effort here. there s efforts being made at the airport, there s people trying to get out, people trying to fly out. there are supplies coming in. but in terms of, you know, on day four, day five, you might expect to see more of an organized outreach into the communities. there are we saw one squad of ....
At 8:00 p.m. eastern. the images are unbelievable. when you hear the stories from the ground, anderson s been in a lot of it, you ve been in a lot of the disaster areas. it is hard to believe. the mayor of tacloban said there are 300 policemen. less than 30 showed up because they couldn t get there or they don t know where they are. i think we re dealing with something unique here. i keep hearing reports there s an unusual number of children displaced here, that they re wandering around. that s always very troubling, especially in like a week or so afterwards. it s a very tough situation on the ground. for those of you at home, i know it sounds like you ve heard this before but this one seems different. that s why there s so much energy put into covering it. it s hard to imagine how anyone in the philippines could celebrate anything at this point. but there were cheers at the tacloban city airport when a ....
The weather was certainly not cooperative today. it had been raining a lot on tuesday. it s raining a little bit right now as we speak. that sort of hampered more flights from landing. it will be a big boone once. this airport here, the tacloban airport which has basically been destroyed, there s not much of an airport left. once it s able to get up and running on a 24-hour basis, the marines are hoping to do that. there s a small contingent of marines here. there s not planes coming in right now. it s night time here. we haven t seen planes landing at night. there are still basically coming in during daylight hours. that s all we re seen so far. even once things get to the airport, the question is how does it get distributed out into the people in town. people are coming to the airport ....
In order to get fed, good food and water. at some point there s a lot of people who can t even make it this far to get to the airport. as you can see, another driving rain has now picked up, which is the last thing people here need. people are sleeping out. people don t have shelters. they re not they re sleeping under corrugated tin, what they can salvage from the wreckage. some of it they ve already used, what little tin they had to cover the body of their husband, churn or wives which have been left out. you can smell in a lot of the neighborhoods you go in, you can smell where people have died. because they re not being collected. they re just left to lay out. anderson, i don t want to leave you out in the weather there. thank you for the reporting. obviously we ll watch you tonight and throughout the day. good luck with the reporting on the ground there. certainly the mess hajj has to get out. thank you for joining us this morning. anderson s show is ac 360 airing live from ....