TACLOBAN, Philippines -- Help is beginning to trickle in to the Philippines in the wake of the devastating Super Typhoon Haiyan, however it's from from enough. Desperation is setting in as thousands of people with nowhere to go wait for clean water, food, and medical care.
When two Philippine Air Force C-130s arrived at the typhoon-wrecked airport here just after dawn Tuesday, more than 3,000 people who had camped out hoping to escape the devastation surged onto the tarmac past a broken iron fence. Only a few hundred made it aboard; the rest were left in a shattered, rain-lashed city short of food and water and littered with uncounted bodies.
Just a dozen soldiers and several police held the crowd back. Mothers raised their babies high above their heads in the rain, in hopes of being prioritized. One woman in her 30s lay on a stretcher, shaking uncontrollably.
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