:00:00. > :00:07.Devastation and despair in the Philippines as the country's
:00:08. > :00:10.president declares a state of national calamity and the world
:00:11. > :00:18.discovers the scale of the damage from one of the worst storms ever.
:00:19. > :00:21.Hi - Martin here with a special Newsround looking at the impact of
:00:22. > :00:22.Typhoon Haiyan and the millions whose lives have been affected
:00:23. > :00:32.forever. To the Philippines then, where the
:00:33. > :00:36.images of devastation caused by Typhoon Haiyan continue to shock the
:00:37. > :00:39.world. It's now estimated that more than nine million people have been
:00:40. > :00:43.affected and there's still a lot we don't know about the extent of the
:00:44. > :00:46.damage outside of the main cities. More than 10,000 people are believed
:00:47. > :00:59.to have been killed in just one place, Tacloban, after it was
:01:00. > :01:02.practically wiped out. Tacloban, a city reduced to rubble
:01:03. > :01:06.by one of the most powerful storms in history. Nobody can cope with the
:01:07. > :01:07.level of destruction this city has experienced. You
:01:08. > :01:12.level of destruction this city has just looks as though it has been
:01:13. > :01:16.completely torn apart. It began last Friday when winds of up to 200 miles
:01:17. > :01:23.per hour swept through the Philippines in South East Asia.
:01:24. > :01:32.Typhoon Haiyan had arrived, and for many there was no escaping it. The
:01:33. > :01:36.storm was on a level unimaginable for those of us living in the UK.
:01:37. > :01:41.The typhoon ripped apart homes and schools, triggering landslides and
:01:42. > :01:53.mass flooding. It's estimated that 10,000 lives were lost in Tacloban
:01:54. > :01:59.alone. This is my house, it is totally gone, nothing there. This is
:02:00. > :02:08.all we have, what we are wearing. That is it. Here in the city, the
:02:09. > :02:11.airport has been destroyed. This is what's left of the shopping centre.
:02:12. > :02:22.And row upon row of homes have simply vanished. It wasn't the wind
:02:23. > :02:25.that did all this, it was water - an enormous four-metre storm surge
:02:26. > :02:29.swept into the coast and flattened neighbourhoods. But out of the
:02:30. > :02:33.wreckage, stories of survival - a five-year-old boy and his family
:02:34. > :02:36.clung on to a tree for four hours as the water levels rose around them.
:02:37. > :02:42.Small glimpses of hope but the true scale of the devastation is not yet
:02:43. > :02:48.known. Many more areas are yet to be reached, many more stories yet to be
:02:49. > :02:51.heard. Well Typhoon Haiyan has now been downgraded to a tropical storm
:02:52. > :03:00.and is heading towards nearby Vietnam. But back in the
:03:01. > :03:03.Philippines, aid agencies say the continued bad weather is making it
:03:04. > :03:06.difficult to get food, water and other vital supplies to people.
:03:07. > :03:11.Ayshah has been finding out how hard it's already proving to reach those
:03:12. > :03:14.in need. Small amounts of aid arriving in the Philippines, but
:03:15. > :03:18.when roads and buildings have been wiped out, how do you get it to
:03:19. > :03:22.when roads and buildings have been where it needs to go? It is
:03:23. > :03:27.difficult to get around at the moment. With the strength of these
:03:28. > :03:31.winds, people described it as a jet engine blasting down on where they
:03:32. > :03:35.lived. One of the first problems is being able to get through to people
:03:36. > :03:41.because some mobile phones still don't work and it is difficult to
:03:42. > :03:46.get hold of even our own staff in some places. The geography of the
:03:47. > :03:54.country makes reaching the people affected even more difficult. It's a
:03:55. > :03:57.series of islands and with airports and ports destroyed and seas still
:03:58. > :04:00.choppy, getting from one place to another is hard. Even trying to
:04:01. > :04:04.drive across the mainland has its challenges. Things are so bad in
:04:05. > :04:07.Tacloban, it's taking more than six hours to travel the seven miles to
:04:08. > :04:11.the airport, a journey which would normally take ten minutes. So once
:04:12. > :04:17.aid workers get to people, what do they need? People need basic things
:04:18. > :04:25.that we probably take for granted like clean water, food, and in some
:04:26. > :04:28.cases we are also talking about emergency accommodation so this
:04:29. > :04:37.means that people might move into a tent just for the next few weeks in
:04:38. > :04:41.order to survive. In the next few days the response to Typhoon Haiyan
:04:42. > :04:43.will be crucial in saving lives Entire communities have been left
:04:44. > :04:52.without food, medicine and water. Now it's a race against the clock to
:04:53. > :04:56.reach them. Well if anything you've seen in the
:04:57. > :04:59.show today upsets you, there's loads of help and advice over on our
:05:00. > :05:00.website. That's all for now.