This week, more news from the relief effort and typhoon Haiyan and how the events in the Philippines threaten to overshadow the on-going climate negotiations in Warsaw.
The Security and Relief Situation on the Ground
- U.S. military ramps up aid to Philippines with up to 1,000 soldiers likely on the ground from Okinawa in short order, ferrying Filipino troops and aid supplies
- Plenty of gasoline but gas stations won’t open for fear of looting; mayor, a relative of Imelda Marcos, urges residents to flee, tells foreign aid workers “Please be self-sufficient, because there’s nothing”
- Tacloban so bad that some prisoners who were freed from jail during the storm turning themselves in to get food and water
- Fears of nearby guerillas coming to the area
- Mob ransacked food storage in Tacloban, rice bags collapsed killing eight looters, nearby Ormoc peaceful
- 1,000 Filipino troops deployed to the Tacloban area to restore order, curfew
.@UNOCHA: An estimated 660,000 people have been displaced by #TyphoonHaiyan. #Philippines
— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) November 12, 2013
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