The official death toll from Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines has risen to 2,344. 
 
 The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council released the figures Wednesday evening. 
 
 It said 3,804 were injured, with a further 79 missing. 
 
 The storm, one of the most powerful on record, hit the country's eastern islands on Friday, destroying tens of thousands of buildings and displacing about 600,000. 
 
 A massive relief operation is underway, though many in the disaster zone have yet to see much assistance. ||||| Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Typhoon Haiyan has presented huge logistical challenges for aid distribution, as Jon Donnison reports 
 
 The Philippine government says it is facing its biggest ever logistical challenge after Typhoon Haiyan, which affected as many as 11 million people. 
 
 Cabinet Secretary Rene Almendras said the government had been overwhelmed by the impact of Haiyan, one of the most powerful storms on record. 
 
 The official death toll stands at more than 2,300, but local officials and aid workers say it could rise much higher. 
 
 Mr Almendras said the government had responded to the disaster "quite well". 
 
 Some residents have expressed anger at the slow speed of the government relief effort. 
 
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 But the BBC's Jonathan Head in Tacloban, a devastated city of 220,000 on Leyte island, says Wednesday brought the first signs of an organised response. 
 
 US military planes have been arriving at Tacloban's ruined airport, delivering World Food Programme supplies, which can be carried by helicopter to outlying regions, and a French-Belgian field hospital has been set up. 
 
 Many people have left Tacloban, says our correspondent, but among those left behind there is a growing sense of panic and fear, not just of food running out but of law and order breaking down. 
 
 On Tuesday, eight people died when a wall collapsed as thousands of desperate survivors mobbed a food warehouse. 
 
 And on Wednesday there were reports of shots being fired in the street and of a teenaged boy being stabbed in the stomach. 
 
 With warehouses empty, the main concern for people still in Tacloban was food and water. Some survivors resorted to digging up water pipes for supplies. 
 
 On a visit to the city, UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos said aid was coming in but "the priority has got to be, let's get the food in, let's get the water in". 
 
 Health officials warn the worst-affected areas are entering a peak danger period for the spread of infectious diseases. 
 
 Image caption But there is not enough room for everyone on board, and many people remain stranded at the airport in Tacloban. In pictures: Waiting for aid 
 
 'Like never before' 
 
 Mr Almendras told the BBC he believed the administration was "doing quite well" in handling the crisis, especially as it came weeks after a major earthquake in the same region. 
 
 "We have never done anything like this before," he said. 
 
 Police spokesman Reuben Sindac denied there was a breakdown in law and order in Tacloban, telling the BBC there was a lot of rumour and misinformation spreading among people who were "in a state of shock". 
 
 He said security forces were now in control of key installations, preventing looting and ensuring the safety of aid deliveries. 
 
 Image caption Bodies are still in the streets of Tacloban on Leyte island, and many people have received no aid. 
 
 Image caption People in the city have been living in the open. 
 
 Image caption Harrowing scenes were witnessed at Tacloban airport as people were evacuated. 
 
 Image caption Hundreds of hungry and exhausted people gathered at the airport in the hope of getting aid, or a flight out. 
 
 Image caption Most of the damage has been concentrated on Leyte and the neighbouring island of Samar, above. 
 
 'More bodies' 
 
 Typhoon Haiyan - one of the most powerful storms ever recorded on land - hit the coastal Philippine provinces of Leyte and Samar on Friday. 
 
 It swept through six central Philippine islands before going on to kill several people in Vietnam and southern China. 
 
 Disaster management officials in the Philippines have put the confirmed death toll there at 2,344, with another 3,804 injured as of 20:00 local time (12:00 GMT). They said 79 people were still missing. 
 
 However, a congressman in Leyte told the BBC he believed the government was giving conservative estimates of the death toll "so as not to cause undue alarm". 
 
 Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Gen Paul Kennedy, commander of US Marine Taskforce: Larger aircraft "will completely change the pace of our build-up of supplies" 
 
 "Just viewing the disaster's scope - its magnitude and the areas affected - we believe that the 10,000 figure is more probable," said Martin Romualdez. 
 
 The head of the Philippines Red Cross, Gwendolyn Pang, also said she expected the official death toll to rise. 
 
 Christine Atillo-Villero, a doctor from Cebu, managed to board a flight on a military plane to Tacloban, to reach her family home in San Jose, on the outskirts of the city. 
 
 "There were dead people lying around. In our backyard we have, I think, six corpses just lying there," she told Newsday on the BBC World Service. 
 
 "People are walking around like zombies just looking for food and water. 
 
 "My hometown will never be the same again. About 90% of the city is destroyed - nothing left." 
 
 Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Sara Pantuliano from the ODI says such an "immense" disaster would test the most seasoned governments in the developed world 
 
 The mayor of Tacloban, Alfred Romualdez said a mass grave had been dug on Tuesday. Bodies were still being processed by the authorities on Wednesday but he was hopeful they could be buried soon. 
 
 'No climate debate' 
 
 The Philippines now puts the number affected at just over 8 million, but the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says 11.3 million people are in need of vital goods and services, because of factors such as lack of food, healthcare and access to education and livelihoods. 
 
 On Tuesday the UN launched an appeal for $301m (£190m) to help survivors. The UK's Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) has also launched its own appeal., raising £13m ($20m) in its first 24 hours. 
 
 US and British navy vessels have been sent to the Philippines and several nations have pledged millions of dollars in aid. 
 
 Speaking to CNN on Tuesday, Philippine President Benigno Aquino warned that storms like Haiyan were becoming more frequent, and there should be "no debate" that climate change was happening. 
 
 He said either the world was committed to action on climate change "or let us be prepared to meet disasters". 
 
 The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has said record sea levels this year combined with rising temperatures mean that coastal devastation such as that caused by Haiyan is likely to occur more frequently. 
 
 Interim figures released by the WMO show this year is heading towards being among the top ten warmest on record. ||||| Story highlights "We don't have medicines. We don't have supplies," a doctor tells CNN 
 
 The elderly and children are the priority in military airlifts, a Philippine officer says 
 
 The latest death toll in the Philippines is 2,357, disaster officials say 
 
 Relief effort "far too slow," U.N. emergency aid chief says 
 
 The cries of the suffering carried through a small, cramped one-story clinic in typhoon-ravaged Tacloban where the medicine was all but gone Thursday, but the number of wounded in the hard-hit Philippine city continued to grow. 
 
 The clinic at the airport in the decimated capital city of Leyte province is one of the few places where those injured in Super Typhoon Haiyan and its aftermath can turn for help, what little help there is six days after the storm. 
 
 "We don't have any medicines. We don't have any supplies. We have IVs, but it's running out," Dr. Katrina Catabay told CNN. 
 
 "Most of the people don't have water and food. That's why they come here. Most of the kids are dehydrated. They are suffering from diarrhea and vomiting." 
 
 Help is coming, on military and civilian transports, by air and by sea. But much of it has been piling up at airports. 
 
 While relief organizations say they have been able to deliver limited aid to some victims, many CNN crews reported seeing little sign of any large-scale organized relief effort in the hardest-hit areas. 
 
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 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Photos: Typhoon Haiyan – A man reconstructs his house in the bay of Tacloban, Leyte province, Philippines, on Wednesday, November 27, 2013. Typhoon Haiyan, one of the most powerful storms on record, hit the country's eastern seaboard on November 8, leaving a wide swath of destruction, including more than 5,000 deaths. Hide Caption 1 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Photos: Typhoon Haiyan – A man rests on his damaged house along the shore in Tacloban on Monday, November 25. Hide Caption 2 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Photos: Typhoon Haiyan – Road traffic moves past destroyed houses in Palo, Leyte province, on Sunday, November 24, weeks after typhoon Haiyan caused heavy damage to life and property in the Philippines. Hide Caption 3 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Hide Caption 4 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – A woman rests inside the damaged Our Lady of Guadalupe shrine in Tacloban, Philippines, on Sunday, November 24. Hide Caption 5 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – A woman looks over the devastated waterfront in Tacloban on November 24. Hide Caption 6 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – Typhoon survivors walk down a road in Palo, Philppines, during a procession for typhoon victims on November 24. Hide Caption 7 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – A vehicle lies in the water in Tacloban on Saturday, November 23. Hide Caption 8 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – A man searches through the debris in Tacloban on November 23. Hide Caption 9 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – A man scavenges piles of wood amid damaged container vessels on November 23 in Tacloban. Hide Caption 10 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – Local people begin to help clear debris near the shoreline where several tankers ran aground on November 23 in Leyte. The death toll from the storm stands at more than 5,000, according to a government-run news agency. Hide Caption 11 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – A man clears debris from in front of his home near the shoreline on November 23 in Leyte. Hide Caption 12 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – Groups of men clear debris near the shoreline on November 23 in Tacloban. Hide Caption 13 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – Survivors of Typhoon Haiyan inspect the damage to their houses in Tacloban, Philippines, on Friday, November 22. Hide Caption 14 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – Filpinos clear rubble from a hard-hit area in Tacloban on November 22. Hide Caption 15 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – An airplane lands in Tacloban as Antonio Lacasa rebuilds his house on Thursday, November 21. Hide Caption 16 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – People carry a coffin through an opening in the wall of a public cemetery for burial in Tacloban on November 21. Hide Caption 17 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – A member of the Philippine air force drops relief goods for survivors in Tolosa on November 21. Hide Caption 18 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – Children blow bubbles in a destroyed market in Tacloban on Wednesday, November 20. Hide Caption 19 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – Workers clear mud and debris in Tacloban on November 20. Hide Caption 20 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – A boy climbs across debris in Tacloban on November 20. Hide Caption 21 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – People at the airport in Tacloban react to a blast of wind from an aircraft on November 20. Hide Caption 22 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – A man walks through water in the typhoon-ravaged city of Tacloban, Philippines, on November 20. Hide Caption 23 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – A man sleeps on Tuesday, November 19, on a tanker that ran aground during Typhoon Haiyan in Tacloban. Hide Caption 24 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – Firemen unload bodies November 19 for forensic experts to register and bury in a mass grave outside of Tacloban. Hide Caption 25 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – Firemen unload more victims outside of Tacloban on November 19. Hide Caption 26 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – A man fans the flames of a fire in Tanauan, Philippines, on November 19. Hide Caption 27 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – Survivors salvage wood next to stranded ships in Tacloban on November 19. Hide Caption 28 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – Philippine military personnel carry an injured survivor to an evacuation flight at the Tacloban airport November 19. Hide Caption 29 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – People in Tacloban march in the rain November 19 during a procession calling for courage and resilience among survivors. Hide Caption 30 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – People play cards by candlelight Monday, November 18, in Tacloban. Hide Caption 31 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – A U.S. Navy helicopter delivers relief goods to typhoon victims in Ormoc, Philippines, on November 18. Hide Caption 32 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – Men take food back to their families in Leyte on November 18. Countries all over the world have pledged relief aid to those affected by the typhoon, but damage to airports and roads have made moving the aid very difficult. Hide Caption 33 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – People are held back as the U.S. Navy delivers aid from a helicopter in San Jose, Philippines, on November 18. Hide Caption 34 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – A helicopter flies over a call for help in Ormoc on November 18. Hide Caption 35 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – A man cleans up mud inside a church in the hard-hit city of Tacloban on November 18. Hide Caption 36 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – A boy bathes November 18 at a Tacloban school turned into a temporary shelter. Hide Caption 37 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – Hundreds of typhoon survivors are packed into a U.S. military airplane November 18 for evacuation from Tacloban's airport. Hide Caption 38 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – Typhoon survivors run toward a passing U.S. Navy helicopter in San Jose on November 18. Hide Caption 39 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – A boy holding a toy machine gun sits Sunday, November 17, on a ship that ran aground in Tacloban. Hide Caption 40 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – People gather around a helicopter as it delivers relief supplies November 17 in Guiuan, Philippines. Hide Caption 41 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – Filipinos board an HC-130 Hercules airplane as U.S. sailors carry relief supplies November 17 in Guiuan. Hide Caption 42 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – Survivors clean mannequins found among the debris in Tacloban on November 17. Hide Caption 43 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – A man leans against a statue of the Crucifixion before a Mass at Santo Nino Church in Tacloban on November 17. Hide Caption 44 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – A man carries a piece of wood from the debris in Tacloban on November 17. Hide Caption 45 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – Survivors wait in line in Tacloban for relief goods on November 17. Hide Caption 46 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – A man looks over the devastation from his damaged home in Tacloban on November 17. Hide Caption 47 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – A trapped resident braves the dust created by a U.S. Navy helicopter taking off Saturday, November 16, on Manicani Island, Philippines. Hide Caption 48 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – Corpses are collected and loaded on trucks to be taken to mass graves in Tacloban on November 16. Hide Caption 49 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – A victim's corpse floats on a river in Tanauan on November 16. Hide Caption 50 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – A pregnant survivor waits to give birth in a hospital November 16 in Tanauan. Hide Caption 51 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – A dead dog lies in front of a house destroyed by the typhoon in Tanauan. Hide Caption 52 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – A man carries a bicycle as he walks through the ruins of a Tacloban building November 16. Hide Caption 53 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – Survivors of the typhoon stand in a Tanauan street partially blocked by debris November 16. Hide Caption 54 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – An elderly survivor walks past toppled cars outside a church in Tacloban on November 16. Hide Caption 55 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – A man in Tanauan cleans meat after slaughtering his only cow that survived the typhoon. Hide Caption 56 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – Survivors gather in Tacloban to await transport to a neighboring province on November 16. Hide Caption 57 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – Men carry a coffin toward a Leyte cemetery on November 16. Hide Caption 58 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – A survivor cooks dinner in front of his damaged home in Marabut, Philippines, on Friday, November 15. Hide Caption 59 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – Toppled coconut trees dot a mountain in an area devastated by the typhoon in Leyte province. Hide Caption 60 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – A typhoon survivor keeps her husband alive by manually pumping air into his lungs after his leg was amputated at a Tacloban hospital November 15. The hospital has been operating without power since the typhoon. Hide Caption 61 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – A survivor reacts to the damage at a residential area in Tacloban on November 15. Hide Caption 62 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – Typhoon victims are treated in the lobby of a Tacloban hospital on November 15. Hide Caption 63 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – Philippine Army soldiers carry the body of a civilian in Tanauan on November 15. Hide Caption 64 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – Residents wait to board a Singaporean cargo plane at the Tacloban airport on November 15. Many survivors have converged on the city's airport to wait for flights. Hide Caption 65 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – Search and retrieval teams carry a body bag in Tacloban on November 15. Hide Caption 66 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – Haiyan survivors carry food that a U.S. military helicopter dropped off in Guiuan on Thursday, November 14. Hide Caption 67 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – Dozens of bodies are placed near Tacloban City Hall on November 14 as workers prepare a mass grave on the outskirts of the hard-hit city. Hide Caption 68 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – A girl plays inside her house amid the devastation in Tacloban on November 14. Hide Caption 69 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – A Filipino soldier hands out bread to survivors in Maraboth, Philippines, on November 14. Hide Caption 70 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – A boy takes cover from rain while waiting for an evacuation flight from Tacloban's airport November 14. Hide Caption 71 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – Workers arrange bodies at a mass burial site at a Tacloban cemetery November 14. Hide Caption 72 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – The weary wait for evacuation from Tacloban on November 14. Hide Caption 73 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – A truck lies in the water in Hernani, Philippines, on November 14. Hide Caption 74 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – Children play with fallen power lines near a damaged school in Guiuan on November 14. Hide Caption 75 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – Teresa Mazeda hangs laundry in the ruins of her Tacloban home on Wednesday, November 13. Hide Caption 76 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – Nina Duran searches for belongings at her family's destroyed house in Tacloban on November 13. Hide Caption 77 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – Survivors walk through the ruins of their neighborhood outside Tacloban on November 13. Hide Caption 78 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – A man sits in front of his destroyed business November 13 in Tacloban. Hide Caption 79 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – A family, desperate to charge their mobile phones to search for family and friends, tries to use a ceiling fan to generate electricity November 13 in the Philippine province of Cebu. Hide Caption 80 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – An injured man in Tacloban rests beneath a picture of Jesus Christ on November 13. Hide Caption 81 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – A man takes a shower amid the rubble in Tacloban on November 13. Hide Caption 82 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – A rescue team wades into Tacloban floodwater to retrieve a body on November 13. Hide Caption 83 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – Residents take shelter in a Tacloban church on November 13. Hide Caption 84 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – Residents make their way through a destroyed neighborhood in Tacloban on November 13. Hide Caption 85 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – A boy cycles past a coffin left on a street in Tacloban on November 13. Hide Caption 86 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – A man looks at his destroyed home November 13 in Tacloban. Hide Caption 87 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – Body bags are lined up in Tacloban on November 13. Hide Caption 88 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – Survivors prepare to board a military plane November 13 at the Tacloban airport. Hide Caption 89 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Photos: Typhoon Haiyan – Men walk through smoke as they burn debris from a Tacloban church on November 16. Hide Caption 90 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – An aerial view of Tanuan shows signs pleading for help and food November 13. Hide Caption 91 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – Soldiers help a woman after she collapsed November 13 while waiting in line to board a military plane at Tacloban's airport. Hide Caption 92 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – Survivors wait to be evacuated from Tacloban on November 13. Hide Caption 93 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – An injured survivor gets carried on a stretcher before being airlifted from Tacloban's airport November 13. Hide Caption 94 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – A survivor begins to rebuild his house in Tacloban on November 13. Hide Caption 95 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – Evacuees wait to board a military aircraft in Leyte on Tuesday, November 12. Hide Caption 96 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – People walk through damage in Tacloban on November 12. Hide Caption 97 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – A young man waits at the airport November 12 in hopes of being evacuated from Tacloban. Hide Caption 98 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – A woman comforts a crying relative as a plane leaves the Tacloban airport November 12. Hide Caption 99 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – A man sits crying on a packed aircraft in Tacloban on November 12. Hide Caption 100 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – Debris lays scattered around a damaged home near the Tacloban airport on November 12. Hide Caption 101 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – A girl sits inside a bus as she waits for a ferry in Matnog, Philippines, on November 12. Hide Caption 102 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – Police line up bodies for processing in Tacloban on November 12. Hide Caption 103 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – People in Tacloban pass debris on November 11. Hide Caption 104 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – Survivors in Tacloban board a military plane bound for the Philippine capital of Manila on November 11. Hide Caption 105 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – Residents carry bags of rice from a Tacloban warehouse that they stormed November 11 because of a food shortage. Hide Caption 106 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – A woman in Tacloban walks amid the debris of destroyed houses on November 11. Hide Caption 107 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – People make their way across a flooded street in Shangsi, China, on November 11. Haiyan moved toward Vietnam and south China after devastating the Philippines. Hide Caption 108 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – Buildings lie in ruins on Eastern Samar's Victory Island. Hide Caption 109 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – Emily Ortega rests on November 11 after giving birth to Bea Joy at an improvised clinic at the Tacloban airport. Hide Caption 110 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – U.S. Marine Corps Osprey aircraft arrive at Manila's Villamor Airbase to deliver humanitarian aid on November 11. Hide Caption 111 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – People ride past destruction in Tacloban on Sunday, November 10. Hide Caption 112 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – A body lies amid the Tacloban devastation on November 10. Hide Caption 113 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – People cover their noses to block the smell of bodies in Tacloban on November 10. Hide Caption 114 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – Bodies of victims lie along a Tacloban road on November 10. Hide Caption 115 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – A large boat sits aground, surrounded by debris in Tacloban on November 10. Hide Caption 116 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – People walk past the Tacloban devastation on November 10. Hide Caption 117 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – People stand under a shelter in Tacloban. Hide Caption 118 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – A girl peeks out from a makeshift shelter in Tacloban. Hide Caption 119 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – Typhoon survivors wait to receive relief goods at the Tacloban airport on November 10. Hide Caption 120 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – A woman mourns in front of her husband's dead body November 10 in Tacloban. Hide Caption 121 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – Fallen trees litter the ground at the Tacloban airport on Saturday, November 9. Hide Caption 122 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – A resident passes victims' bodies on a Tacloban street November 9. Hide Caption 123 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – People in Tacloban carry a victim of the typhoon November 9. Hide Caption 124 of 146 Photos: Photos: Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan – A vehicle lies amid Tacloban debris on November 9. 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 Blame Haiyan and its unprecedented strength and scope, said UNICEF spokesman Christopher De Bono. 
 
 "I don't think that's anyone's fault. I think it's the geography and the devastation," he said. 
 
 Still, the desperation is increasing, and becoming more serious. 
 
 "We mostly need food and water, that's the most important," Catabay said. "We need supplies." 
 
 At the clinic, a Philippine military officer called names off a clipboard, the names of those who will be airlifted out of the city. 
 
 "The elderly, the children that are sick" are the priority, the officer said. 
 
 For at least one man, the evacuation came too late. 
 
 The man died at the clinic. His body was put on a gurney and pushed to the end of a hallway because there is nowhere to put him, the clinic staff said. 
 
 Death toll climbs 
 
 Throughout the devastation, bodies of victims lie buried in the debris or out in the open. 
 
 The government hasn't counted them all yet, but initial fears that 10,000 may have died have subsided. 
 
 By Thursday morning, the official death toll had climbed to 2,357, disaster officials said. The typhoon left 3,853 people injured and 77 people missing, according to the Philippines' National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council. 
 
 The toll is "going to be horrific," Philippine Interior Minister Mar Roxas said. 
 
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 "There are still many towns that have not sent in complete reports and out of the 40 towns of Leyte, for example, only 20 have been contacted. So there's another 20 towns with no communication," he said. 
 
 "It's going to be a high death toll. I don't want to go into just throwing out numbers." 
 
 Philippine President Benigno Aquino III told CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday that he expected the final number would likely be around 2,000 to 2,500. 
 
 When it struck Friday, Haiyan, known in the Philippines as Yolanda, flattened entire towns. 
 
 The storm destroyed at least 80,000 homes, according to the latest Philippine government accounting. Although estimates of the number left homeless vary, the Philippine government puts it at more than 582,000. 
 
 Expecting to die 
 
 The storm also shattered families. Mayple Nunal and her husband, Ignacio, lost their two daughters, Gnacy Pearl and Gnacy May -- washed away when the storm's ferocious storm surge ripped through Tacloban. 
 
 "The big waves, we were like inside the washing machine," Mayple Nunal said. "And we were expecting that we would die." 
 
 While Nunal and her husband are safe, receiving treatment in Cebu, United Nations officials have warned of increasing desperation and lawlessness among those left homeless. 
 
 Eight people died when a wall collapsed Tuesday during a stampede at a government warehouse in Leyte province, Philippine National Food Authority administrator Orlan Calayag said Wednesday. Police and security stood by as people stormed the building and took some 100,000 sacks of rice, he said. 
 
 The United Nations said the situation is especially dangerous for women and children. Some areas haven't been reached yet, according to Valerie Amos, the U.N. under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief. 
 
 Police warned a CNN crew to turn back Wednesday on the road south of Tacloban, saying rebels had been shooting at civilians. 
 
 "Maybe they are looking for food," a police commander told CNN. 
 
 "Pushing aid" to Tacloban 
 
 There were, however, some successes. 
 
 U.S. Marines arrived Wednesday in Cebu, transforming the sleepy airbase there into a buzzing center of activity as cargo aircraft, tilt-rotor Ospreys and camouflaged Marines got to work preparing for the enormous job of receiving, sorting and delivering aid to millions in need. 
 
 Two 747 airplanes loaded with humanitarian aid from the United States have arrived, and Marines are "pushing aid" from Cebu to Tacloban, Brig. Gen. Paul Kennedy said on CNN's "Situation Room" 
 
 "It's a serious situation down here," Kennedy said. "...Some of those neighborhoods are inundated with water, and some of it's inaccessible" because of the debris. 
 
 One of the big problems is figuring out how to get needed supplies, including heavy machinery, to these areas. 
 
 "It's a matter of capacity at this point. This just doesn't come out of a box. It has to be moved down here. It's a remote location," he said. 
 
 The Royal Australian Air Force also landed at Cebu, delivering a portable field hospital that was soon sent on its way to Tacloban. Taiwanese troops also arrived with medical aid, and Doctors Without Borders said three of nine cargo shipments it has planned also arrived in Cebu on Wednesday. 
 
 The planes carried medical supplies, shelter materials, hygiene kits and other gear, the agency said. 
 
 U.N.: Pace of relief lacking 
 
 Teams from Doctors Without Borders also have reached remote Guiuan, a village of about 45,000 that was among the first areas hit by the full force of the storm, the agency said. 
 
 "The situation here is bleak," said Alexis Moens, the aid group's assessment team leader. "The village has been flattened -- houses, medical facilities, rice fields, fishing boats all destroyed. People are living out in the open; there are no roofs left standing in the whole of Guiuan. The needs are immense and there are a lot of surrounding villages that are not yet covered by any aid organizations." 
 
 Meanwhile, the U.N. World Food Programme began distributing food in Tacloban, handing out rice to 3,000 people on Wednesday, the agency said, and the U.S. Agency for International Development also said it expected to deliver its first shipment of relief supplies to victims on Wednesday. 
 
 The uptick in aid deliveries comes a day after the road between the capital, Manila, and hard-hit Tacloban opened, holding out the promise that aid will begin to flow more quickly. 
 
 But six days after the storm struck -- with more than 2 million people in need of food, according to the Philippine government -- even the U.N.'s Amos acknowledged the pace of relief is still lacking. 
 
 "This is a major operation that we have to mount," she said Wednesday. "We're getting there. But in my view it's far too slow." 
 
 Philippine President Aquino has defended relief efforts, saying that in addition to all the challenges of blocked roads and downed power and communication lines, local governments were overwhelmed, forcing the federal government to step in and perform both its own role and those of local officials. 
 
 Most of all, he told CNN on Tuesday, "nobody imagined the magnitude that this super typhoon brought on us." ||||| Philippine military personnel try to prioritize children and women first as people wait for evacuation flights in Tacloban, central Philippines, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013. / AP Photo/Wally Santana 
 
 WASHINGTON The State Department says two Americans have died in the typhoon tragedy in the Philippines. 
 
 Spokeswoman Jen Psaki says that number could go up as the department receives additional information. 
 
 She says the U.S. Embassy in Manila is providing consular assistance to the families of those who died. She says a team of embassy officials planned to travel to the impacted area on Wednesday to further assist victims. 
 
 The official death toll is more than 1,700, but as many as 10,000 are feared dead and more than 9 million people have been affected by the storm in the archipelago nation of more than 7,000 islands. ||||| Thousands of people stormed a rice warehouse on an island devastated by Typhoon Haiyan, authorities said Wednesday, highlighting the urgent need to get water, food and medical supplies into an increasingly desperate region. 
 
 Soldiers rush a typhoon survivor after she collapsed in a queue to board a military transport plane Wednesday Nov. 13, 2013 from the damaged Tacloban airport in Tacloban city, Leyte province in central... (Associated Press) 
 
 Typhoon survivors prepare to board a military transport plane Wednesday Nov. 13, 2013 from the damaged Tacloban airport in Tacloban city, Leyte province in central Philippines. Typhoon Haiyan, one of... (Associated Press) 
 
 An aerial view shows the destruction left from Typhoon Haiyan in the coastal town of Tanawan, central Philippines, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2013. Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest storms on record, slammed... (Associated Press) 
 
 An injured typhoon survivor is carried on a stretcher prior to being airlifted in a military transport plane Wednesday Nov. 13, 2013 from the damaged Tacloban airport at Tacloban city, Leyte province... (Associated Press) 
 
 In this aerial photo taken on Saturday, Nov. 9, 2013, and released by the Philippine Air Force, a ferry boat is seen washed inland from a massive storm surge caused by Typhoon Haiyan, in the city of Tacloban,... (Associated Press) 
 
 Survivors of Typhoon Haiyan are stopped by rescue workers as they try to board a C-130 cargo plane at the airport in Tacloban city, Leyte province, central Philippines, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013. Four days... (Associated Press) 
 
 Survivors of Typhoon Haiyan comfort each other after not being allowed to board a C-130 cargo plane because of limited space, at the airport in Tacloban, central Philippines, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013. Four... (Associated Press) 
 
 Survivors carry clothes along a road at typhoon-ravaged Tacloban city, Leyte province, central Philippines on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013. Four days after Typhoon Haiyan struck the eastern Philippines, assistance... (Associated Press) 
 
 Filipino troopers control survivors who want to board military planes to flee the typhoon ravaged Tacloban city, Leyte province, central Philippines on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013. Thousands of typhoon survivors... (Associated Press) 
 
 An aerial view shows signs for help and food amid the destruction left from Typhoon Haiyan in the coastal town of Tanawan, central Philippines, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2013. Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest... (Associated Press) 
 
 A policeman escorts canned goods after Typhoon Haiyan slammed Tacloban city, Leyte province, central Philippines, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013. Four days after Typhoon Haiyan devastated islands in the central... (Associated Press) 
 
 Survivors of Typhoon Haiyan wait at the airport in hopes of being evacuated on C-130 cargo planes, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013 in Tacloban city, Leyte province, central Philippines. Four days after Typhoon... (Associated Press) 
 
 Survivors wait for relief goods on a flooded road at typhoon-ravaged Tacloban city, Leyte province, central Philippines on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013. Four days after Typhoon Haiyan struck the eastern Philippines,... (Associated Press) 
 
 A soldier carries one-day-old baby Ian Daniel Honrado to a waiting military transport plane Wednesday Nov. 13, 2013 from the damaged Tacloban airport at Tacloban city, Leyte province in central Philippines.... (Associated Press) 
 
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 Five days after one of the strongest tropical storms on record leveled tens of thousands of houses in the central Philippines, relief operations were only starting to pick up pace, with two more airports in the region reopening, allowing for more aid flights. 
 
 But minimal food and water was reaching people in the devastated city of Tacloban, on Leyte island, which bore the brunt of the storm, and outlying regions due to a lack of trucks and blocked roads. 
 
 "There's a bit of a logjam to be absolutely honest getting stuff in here," said Sebastian Rhodes Stampa, from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. 
 
 "You've had quite a lot of security coming in over the last couple of days, less so other things. So then it gets here and then we're going to have a real challenge with logistics in terms of getting things out of here, into town, out of town, into the other areas," he said from the airport in Tacloban. 
 
 "The reason for that essentially is that there are no trucks, the roads are all closed." 
 
 In the first reported deaths as a result of looting, eight people were crushed to death Tuesday when a wall collapsed as they and thousands of others stormed a rice warehouse on Leyte Island, said National Food Authority spokesman Rex Estoperez. 
 
 The looters in Alangalang municipality carted away up to 100,000 sacks of rice, he said. 
 
 Since the storm, people have broken into homes, malls and garages, where they have stripped the shelves of food, water and other goods. Authorities have struggled to stop the looting. There have been unconfirmed reports of armed gangs involved in some instances. 
 
 Police were working to keep order across the ravaged wasteland. An 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew was in place. 
 
 "We have restored order," said Carmelo Espina Valmoria, director of the Philippine National Police special action force. "There has been looting for the last three days, (but) the situation has stabilized." 
 
 U.S. Brig Gen. Paul Kennedy said that later Wednesday his troops would install equipment at Tacloban airport to allow planes to land at night. Tacloban, a city of 220,000, was almost completely destroyed in Friday's typhoon and has become the main relief hub. 
 
 "You are not just going to see Marines and a few planes and some helicopters," Kennedy said. "You will see the entire Pacific Command respond to this crisis." 
 
 A Norwegian ship carrying supplies left from Manila, while an Australian air force transport plane took off from Canberra carrying a medical team. British and American navy vessels are also en route to the region. 
 
 At the damaged airport in Tacloban, makeshift clinics have been set up and thousands of people were looking for a flight out. A doctor here said supplies of antibiotics and anesthetics arrived Tuesday for the first time. 
 
 "Until then, patients had to endure the pain," said Dr. Victoriano Sambale. 
 
 At least 580,000 people have been displaced by the disaster. In some places, tsunami-like storm surges swept up to one-kilometer (mile) inland, causing more destruction and loss of life. Most of the death and destruction appears concentrated on the islands of Samar and Leyte. 
 
 The damaged infrastructure and bad communications links made a conclusive death toll difficult to estimate. 
 
 The official toll from a national disaster agency rose to 1,883 on Tuesday. President Benigno Aquino III told CNN in a televised interview that the toll could be closer to 2,000 or 2,500, lower than an earlier estimate from two officials on the ground who said they feared as many as 10,000 might be dead. 
 
 "There is a huge amount that we need to do. We have not been able to get into the remote communities," U.N. humanitarian chief Valerie Amos said in Manila, launching an appeal for $301 million to help the more than 11 million people estimated to be affected by the storm. 
 
 "Even in Tacloban, because of the debris and the difficulties with logistics and so on, we have not been able to get in the level of supply that we would want to. We are going to do as much as we can to bring in more," she said. Her office said she planned to visit the city. 
 
 Relief officials said comparing the pace of this operation to those in past disasters was difficult. 
 
 In Indonesia's Aceh, the worst-hit region by the 2004 tsunami, relief hubs were easier to set up than in Tacloban. The main airport there was functioning 24 hours a day within a couple of days of the disaster. While devastation in much of the city of Banda Aceh was total, large inland parts of the city were undamaged, providing a base for aid operations and temporary accommodation for the homeless. 
 
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 AP writers Oliver Teves, Chris Brummitt and Teresa Cerojano in Manila, Kristen Gelineau in Cebu and Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations contributed to this report. ||||| Here are the latest casualty figures and damage reports from the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan. All figures are preliminary and based on national and regional government officials and media reports. 
 
 Typhoon Haiyan survivors walk through the ruins of their neighborhood in Tacloban, central Philippines on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2013. A man named J.R. Apan painted a plea for help in front of his destroyed... (Associated Press) 
 
 _ National: 2,344 confirmed deaths, with another 3,804 hurt, according to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council. President Benigno Aquino III told CNN that the death toll could be 2,000 or 2,500, lower than earlier estimates by two officials on the ground that it could hit 10,000. 
 
 _ Leyte province: Thousands feared dead or missing. Widespread severe damage. Tacloban, its main city with a population of 220,000, lies in ruins. Communications, transport cut in many areas. 
 
 _ Samar: 400 estimated dead, 2,000 missing. 
 
 _ Eastern Samar: 211 dead, 45 missing and 174,000 residents affected. 
 
 _ Cebu: 63 dead. 
 
 _ Iloilo: 162 dead, according to Gov. Arthur Defensor. He said 68,543 houses were destroyed and 536,584 people have been affected. Aid is reaching the province, but delivery of relief goods to island villages is hampered because 90 percent of motorized boats have been destroyed. Helicopters are delivering food and other goods but cannot fly when the weather is bad. 
 
 _ Capiz: 44 dead and 1 missing. TV footage showed damage to some houses, but it did not appear extensive. 
 
 _ Aklan: 10 dead. 
 
 _ Antique: 7 dead. ||||| Eight people have been killed in the typhoon-ravaged central Philippines after thousands of Haiyan survivors stormed a government-owned rice warehouse seeking food supplies. 
 
 The Philippines National Food Authority said police and soldiers stood by helpless as people streamed into the warehouse in Alangalang, Leyte province – an area where hunger and desperation are running high after Haiyan made landfall early on Friday morning, ravaging vast swaths of Leyte and Samar islands. The security forces could only watch as more than 100,000 sacks of rice were carried away. 
 
 The eight were crushed to death when a wall in the warehouse collapsed, spokesman Rex Estoperez told the Associated Press. Other rice warehouses were dotted around the region, he said, refusing to give their locations for security reasons. 
 
 The Philippines government has come under fire for failing to deliver aid adequately or quickly enough, with growing frustration in the hardest hit areas, such as Tacloban, the capital of Leyte province where dead bodies have piled up on the streets and residents have resorted to looting to find food. 
 
 A military official told the Guardian on Wednesday that the government was aiming to double its relief efforts within the next two days. Attempts to provide help were buoyed by the expected arrival of two extra US military C-130 planes and one additional Australian air force plane. 
 
 Three relief distribution points were being set up in the Leyte island towns of Tacloban, Guiuan and Ormoc, the official said, with the main aid effort operating out of neighbouring Cebu instead of Manila, the capital, which is 360 miles to the north. 
 
 More than 10,000 people are feared to have been killed in the Philippines due to Haiyan, most of them in Leyte province, with aid workers suggesting that number may rise significantly. As many as 29 municipalities have still not been reached due to impassable roads and downed telecommunications. 
 
 President Benigno Aquino III said on Tuesday that he believed the number killed to be far lower – around 2,500 – and told CNN that the 10,000 figure may have come from an "emotional" official, with government figures alleging that the death toll stands at 2,275. The UN has said more than 670,000 people have been displaced and a total of 11.3 million people directly affected by the super storm. 
 
 International relief efforts intensified with the launch of a UN appeal and the dispatch of American, British and Japanese troops to the affected regions. But minimal amounts of aid have reached the worst‑hit areas. 
 
 More than 3,000 people surged on to the tarmac of Tacloban airport on Tuesday morning in the hope of flying out on the two Philippine air force planes that had just arrived. 
 
 Babies and sick or elderly people were given priority but only a few hundred were able to leave. Others were held back by soldiers and police. Many had walked for hours and camped at the base overnight. 
 
 "I was pleading with the soldiers. I was kneeling and begging because I have diabetes," said Helen Cordial as she lay on a stretcher, shaking. "Do they want me to die in this airport? They are stone-hearted," she told the Associated Press. 
 
 Dean Smith, an Australian who has been living with his family near Palo, Leyte province, for the last five years, told the Guardian that he waited eight hours to be able to get one of the first commercial flights out of Tacloban to Cebu. On the way to the airport he said he saw "horrifying things that I know I have seen but my brain hasn't processed yet". 
 
 He described scenes of chaos in the city centre, where police were stealing money from the local cashpoints, people in cars were refusing to drive the injured to get help, and the bloated body of a man floating in dirty water was being gnawed at by a dog. 
 
 "What people have gone through, what they have seen – there is going to be a lot of post-traumatic stress after this event I assure you," he said shakily. "No one has ever seen anything like this." 
 
 Having arrived on Tuesday in Cebu, Smith was planning to stock up on food, medicine and water and take it back to his Palo home, where his wife, six children, a 92-year-old grandmother and a pregnant nanny were all desperately awaiting supplies. He departed for Tacloban early on Wednesday morning. 
 
 Domestic and international relief efforts were being hampered by wet weather, poor communications and damaged infrastructure, with aircraft only able to land in Tacloban during daylight hours because the air control tower had been destroyed by Haiyan. Unsubstantiated reports of aid convoys being attacked by hungry victims circulated, with the Telegraph reporting that communist rebels had been killed whilst trying to intercept a Red Cross convoy destined for the island of Samar. 
 
 Still, Corizon Soliman, secretary of the Philippine department of social welfare and development, said aid had so far reached a third of the city's 45,000 families. 
 
 However armed forces spokesman Ramon Zagala told the BBC that relief workers were struggling to deliver aid for a number of reasons. 
 
 "The area is very vast and the number of helicopters – although we have a lot of helicopters at the moment – it's really a challenge for us to bring [aid] to all the places and [bring] the number of goods that are needed." 
 
 The BBC quoted a Leyte official as saying that although relief goods like medicine and equipment were arriving into the province "it's just not reaching the people affected". 
 
 The UN released $25m (£15.7m) in emergency funds for shelter materials and household items, and for assistance with emergency health services, safe water supplies and sanitation. 
 
 The UN aid chief, Valerie Amos, launched an appeal for $300m as she arrived in Manila. "We have deployed specialist teams, vital logistics support and dispatched critical supplies but we have to do more and faster," she said. 
 
 The US, Britain, Japan, Australia and other nations have pledged tens of millions of dollars in immediate aid, and some businesses have also offered help: banking group HSBC announced a $1m (£630,000) cash donation. 
 
 In Tacloban shops were stripped of food and water by hungry residents. While some tents had arrived, the widespread damage left many people sleeping in the ruins of their homes or under shredded trees. 
 
 Military doctors at a makeshift clinic at the airport said they had treated about 1,000 people for cuts, bruises and deep wounds but did not have enough medical supplies. 
 
 "It's overwhelming," said Antonio Tamayo, an air force captain. "We need more medicine. We can't give anti-tetanus vaccine shots because we have none." 
 
 The typhoon flattened Basey, a seaside town in Samar province about six miles across a bay from Tacloban. About 2,000 people were missing there, its governor said. Rescue and relief workers were yet to reach many of the more remote areas. 
 
 "There are hundreds of other towns and villages stretched over thousands of kilometres that were in the path of the typhoon and with which all communication has been cut," said Natasha Reyes, emergency co-ordinator in the Philippines at Médecins Sans Frontières. "No one knows what the situation is like in these more rural and remote places, and it's going to be some time before we have a full picture." 
 
 Damage to communications left the armed forces struggling to reach local authorities and many officials were dead, missing or trying to protect their own families. 
 
 "Basically the only branch of government that is working here is the military," Ruben Guinolbay, a Philippine army captain, told Reuters in Tacloban. "That is not good. We are not supposed to take over government." 
 
 The interior secretary, Manuel Roxas, said on Tuesday that only 20 of Tacloban's 293 police had arrived for work. But he added: "Today we have stabilised the situation. There are no longer reports of looting. The food supply is coming in. Up to 50,000 food packs are coming in every day, with each pack able to feed up to a family of five for three days." 
 
 A team of British medical experts and the first consignment of aid from the UK was leaving for the Philippines, David Cameron said on Tuesday. 
 
 The UK surgical team, led by Anthony Redmond, Manchester University professor of international emergency medicine, includes three emergency physicians, two orthopaedic surgeons, a plastic surgeon, two accident and emergency nurses, a theatre nurse, two anaesthetists and one specialist physiotherapist. 
 
 The USS George Washington aircraft carrier, transporting about 5,000 sailors and more than 80 aircraft, plus four other US navy ships, should arrive in two to three days, the Pentagon said. 
 
 Britain's HMS Daring, a warship with equipment to make drinking water from seawater, and a military transport aircraft should arrive around the same time. 
 
 Japan is sending a team of 40 from its self-defence force. 
 
 Aquino has declared a state of national calamity, allowing the central government to release emergency funds more quickly and impose price controls. 
 
 Initial estimates of the cost of the damage vary widely, with a report from German-based CEDIM Forensic Disaster Analysis putting the total at anywhere from $8bn to $19bn. ||||| 1 of 18. Residents gather to make free calls to their relatives after Typhoon Haiyan devastated Tacloban city, central Philippines November 12, 2013. 
 
 TACLOBAN, Philippines (Reuters) - The death toll from Typhoon Haiyan's rampage through the Philippines is closer to 2,000 or 2,500 than the 10,000 previously estimated, President Benigno Aquino said on Tuesday as U.S. and British warships headed toward his nation to help with relief efforts. 
 
 "Ten thousand, I think, is too much," Aquino told CNN in an interview. "There was emotional drama involved with that particular estimate." 
 
 Aquino said the government was still gathering information from various storm-struck areas and the death toll may rise. 
 
 "We're hoping to be able to contact something like 29 municipalities left wherein we still have to establish their numbers, especially for the missing, but so far 2,000, about 2,500, is the number we are working on as far as deaths are concerned," he said. 
 
 The official death toll stood at 1,774 on Tuesday. 
 
 Philippine officials have been overwhelmed by Haiyan, one of the strongest typhoons on record, which tore through the central Philippines on Friday and flattened Tacloban, coastal capital of Leyte province where officials had feared 10,000 people died, many drowning in a tsunami-like wall of seawater. 
 
 Aquino revealed the lower estimated toll after the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS George Washington set sail for the Philippines carrying about 5,000 sailors and more than 80 aircraft to accelerate relief efforts. It was joined by four other U.S. Navy ships and should arrive in two to three days, the Pentagon said. 
 
 "The weather is pretty bad out there, so we are limited by seas and wind," Captain Thomas Disy, commander of the USS Antietam, a missile cruiser that is part of the carrier group, said in Hong Kong. "But we are going to be going as fast as we possibly can." 
 
 Relief supplies poured into Tacloban along roads flanked with corpses and canyons of debris as the rain fell again. Rescue workers scrambled to reach other towns and villages still cut off, which could reveal the full extent of the casualties and devastation. 
 
 "There are hundreds of other towns and villages stretched over thousands of kilometers that were in the path of the typhoon and with which all communication has been cut," said Natasha Reyes, emergency coordinator in the Philippines at Médecins Sans Frontières. 
 
 "No one knows what the situation is like in these more rural and remote places, and it's going to be some time before we have a full picture." 
 
 She described the devastation as unprecedented for the Philippines, a disaster-prone archipelago of more than 7,000 islands that sees about 20 typhoons a year, likening the storm to "a massive earthquake followed by huge floods." 
 
 About 660,000 people have been displaced and many have no access to food, water or medicine, the United Nations said. 
 
 Britain is also sending a navy warship with equipment to make drinking water from seawater and a military transport aircraft. The HMS Daring left Singapore and expects to arrive in two or three days. 
 
 World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said the development lender was considering boosting its conditional cash transfer program for the Philippines in the wake of the storm. 
 
 CORPSE-CHOKED WASTELAND 
 
 Aquino has declared a state of national calamity and deployed hundreds of soldiers in Tacloban, a once-vibrant port city of 220,000 that is now a wasteland without any sign of a government, as city and hospital workers focus on saving their families and securing food. 
 
 "Basically, the only branch of government that is working here is the military," Philippine Army Major Ruben Guinolbay told Reuters in Tacloban. "That is not good. We are not supposed to take over government." 
 
 Tacloban's government was wiped out by the storm, said Interior Secretary Manuel Roxas. Officials were dead, missing or too overcome with grief to work. Of the city's 293 police officers, only 20 had shown up for duty, he said. 
 
 "Today, we have stabilized the situation. There are no longer reports of looting. The food supply is coming in. Up to 50,000 food packs are coming in every day, with each pack able to feed up to a family of five for three days," he said. 
 
 Corazon Soliman, Secretary of the Philippine Department of Social Welfare and Development, said aid had reached a third of Tacloban's 45,000 families. Most of its stores remain closed - either destroyed or shut after widespread looting. 
 
 "Those that opened saw their goods wiped out of their shelves right away," Soliman said. 
 
 CHAOS AT AIRPORT 
 
 Two Philippine Air Force C-130 cargo planes landed at Tacloban airport early on Tuesday, but unloaded more soldiers than relief supplies. Among dozens of troops was a unit of Special Forces, underscoring concerns about civil disorder. 
 
 The Special Forces immediately deployed at the airport to hold back angry and desperate families waiting in heavy rain in the hope of boarding the planes returning to Manila. 
 
 "Get back! Get back in the building!" shouted air force officials through megaphones, gesturing the crowds back inside the wrecked terminal. Many had walked for hours from their destroyed homes, carrying meager possessions. 
 
 The sick, infants and the elderly were taken on board first. Pale-faced babies were passed over the crowd and carried on with several injured people. Many people wept and begged officials to let them on. 
 
 Residents told terrifying accounts of being swept away by a surge of water in city hopelessly unprepared for power of Haiyan, known in the Philippines as Yolanda. 
 
 Some stayed behind to protect their property, including Marivel Saraza, 39, who moved her six children farther inland before Haiyan struck, but stayed behind to look after her home only a stone's throw from the sea. 
 
 She ended up battling through chest-high water to reach higher ground, while the storm surge destroyed her two-storey concrete home. 
 
 "My house just dissolved in the water," she said. 
 
 Saraza now struggles to feed her children. The government gave her 2 kg (4.4 lb) of rice and a single can of sardines - barely enough for a family meal - so her husband foraged for fruit farther inland. But trees have been flattened by winds of 314 kph (195 mph) and rice fields inundated with salt water. 
 
 RELIEF EFFORTS PICKING UP 
 
 Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima said the economic damage in the coconut- and rice-growing region would likely shave 1 percentage point off of economic growth in 2014. 
 
 "Fixation over numbers at this stage is not going to be useful," Purisima, the top finance ministry official, told reporters. "I was overwhelmed by the pictures, not the numbers." 
 
 The overall financial cost of the destruction was harder to assess. Initial estimates varied widely, with a report from German-based CEDIM Forensic Disaster Analysis putting the total at $8 billion to $19 billion. 
 
 International relief efforts have begun to gather pace, with dozens of countries and organizations pledging tens of millions of dollars in aid. U.N. aid chief Valerie Amos, who has traveled to the Philippines, released $25 million for aid relief on Monday from the U.N. Central Emergency Response Fund. 
 
 Rescuers have yet to reach remote parts of the coast, such as Guiuan, a city of 40,000 people that was largely destroyed. 
 
 "We don't need aerial surveys. It won't help the people of Guiuan," one resident posted on the Armed Forces Facebook page. "You've already done an aerial survey and you've seen the extent of the damage, seen the devastation that Yolanda brought... The people are desperate, hungry and feeling dejected. WE ARE CRYING FOR HELP!!!" 
 
 The typhoon also leveled Basey, a seaside town in Samar province about 10 km (6 miles) across a bay from Tacloban. About 2,000 people were missing in Basey, its governor said. 
 
 (Additional reporting by Rosemarie Francisco and Karen Lema in Manila; Phil Stewart and Susan Heavey in Washington; Michelle Nichols at the United Nations, Belinda Goldsmith in London and Greg Torode in Hong Kong; Writing by Jason Szep and Jim Loney; Editing by Nick Macfie and Doina Chiacu)
– Relief operations have been stepped up in the Philippines but the situation remains desperate for large numbers of people in areas ravaged by Typhoon Haiyan. In the worst-hit region, eight people were killed in a stampede as thousands of survivors stormed a government rice warehouse, the AP reports. Security forces could only watch as the survivors made off with 100,000 sacks of rice from the government-owned warehouse. Elsewhere: The official death toll is up to 2,344, with 3,804 wounded and 79 missing, according to the AP. For a more detailed look at the current numbers, click here. At least two Americans, possibly more, are among the dead, CBS reports. The State Department says it is providing assistance to their families and is sending a team to the typhoon-battered region. "There are hundreds of other towns and villages stretched over thousands of kilometers that were in the path of the typhoon and with which all communication has been cut," an emergency coordinator at Medecins Sans Frontieres tells Reuters. "No one knows what the situation is like in these more rural and remote places, and it's going to be some time before we have a full picture." Those geographical difficulties are also bedeviling the World Food Programme, which has sent 270,000 tons of rice to the country, but is having trouble distributing it, CNN reports. The Philippine government estimates that more than 2 million people need food aid. So far, 22 countries have sent help in some form. Filipino soldiers have been joined by American, British, and Japanese troops in affected regions, and US Navy ships are expected to arrive in two days, the Guardian reports. US military planes are arriving in Tacloban as well, bearing food supplies, the BBC adds, while France and Belgium have jointly set up a field hospital.