Rather than fan the flames caused by her blind item on Wednesday, ABS-CBN newsreader Korina Sanchez kept mum on the controversy created by her comment on a blonde CNN reporter providing wrong facts about the situation in typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda)-battered Tacloban City.

Read: Storm Haiyan (Yolanda) Update: Blind Item by Filipina Newsreader vs CNN Reporter Goes Viral

She did not show for her morning radio program on Thursday, and was temporarily replaced by another ABS-CBN talent, Jasmin Romero. Other DZMM radio announcers such as Ted Failon, who also has a morning programme, did not mention at all the incident which became viral in social media.

Pep.ph reported that Ms Sanchez flew to Ormoc City, another Haiyan-battered area, to investigate how the typhoon relief efforts are going on. It is expected that Ms Sanchez would not be critical of the slow arrival of help since it would reflect badly on the Philippine government, particularly her husband, Interior Secretary Mar Roxas, who heads the rescue and relief operations in Tacloban.

Ms Sanchez said she will report live from Ormoc City when ABC-CBN news programme, TV Patrol, airs at 6 pm. Ormoc has been declared as safe and life is back to normal, she said.

Her trip to Ormoc would help dispel the criticism of netizens that she should not speak ill of the unnamed CNN reporter, believed to be Anderson Cooper, while commenting from her aircon booth in the city, while the CNN team is on the field.

This is the report that drew flak for Ms Sanchez.

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Significantly, because of the controversy it generated and the general public interest on the aftermath of Yolanda, the video now has more than 175,000 hits.

Notwithstanding the controversy over his report, which he also tweeted, Mr Cooper made another report on the situation in Tacloban and he touched provided some feedback about his tweets in this video.

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