Anderson Cooper On Filipinos After Haiyan Relief Delay: 'Their Strength Is Extraordinary'
CNN Reporter Anderson Cooper from Tacloban, Philippines took to Twitter Friday when he saw the "extraordinary" strength shown by Filipinos on the ground even after the Haiyan relief was delayed for six days.
The reporter wrote, "Their strength is extraordinary." According to the NZ Herald, a relief worker in the Southeast Asian Nation said the Filipinos are resilient amidst grief.
Haiyan Relief Delay
It's been six days since super typhoon Haiyan made landfall in the central part of the Southeast Asian nation but the expected food and water supply have not yet arrived as of Thursday, sources said.
Making the hardest-hit area as "miserable" and the people "desperate," Cooper noted that the Philippine government's presence is not felt in the coastal city of Tacloban.
According to experts, it is expected that will be delays but those who have lost family members and are out of food and water feel that the six-day delay was too much, reports said. Some survivors reportedly started looting businesses when supplies ran out.
After Cooper's tweet, and in response to what the local media in the Philippines have been tagging as "looting", Russel Honore said, "People take food to survive, saw this during Katrina."
"Their strength is extraordinary" @andersoncooper on the Filipino people in the week after #TyphoonHaiyan. #AC360
— Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) November 15, 2013
The Philippines and Cindy Jacobs's "Philippine Prophecy"
The Philippines, a strategic nation in Asia, gets six to nine typhoons every year but Haiyan is the strongest that made landfall in the archipelago based on history.
Dr. Cindy Jacobs' Philippine prophecy video started making rounds on social networking sites Facebook and Twitter after four years of not getting attention. The reason for the renewed attention to Jacobs' video was its Haiyan connection, specifically when Dr. Jacobs said, "Even though everywhere you look around is devastation, out of this darkness is going to be a transformation movement."
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