From CNN News | by Andrew Stevens and Faith Karimi updated at 9 pm
Tacloban airport was totally destroyed; I was there last year
Death toll could reach as high as 1,200 according to Gwendolyn Pang, secretary general of Philippine Red Cross: 1,000 from Leyte and 200 from Samar. More precise number could be determined by Sunday. Much is not known from remote coastal villages where communication has been cut off. This is also true for Cebu. Daang Bantayan is inaccessible according to Dennis Chiong, head of Provincial Disaster and Risk center, where more than 3,000 residents need food and water.
The typhoon moved at a fast speed of 41 kph and and typhoon winds covered area the size of Germany and typhoon clouds covered a distance of 1,000 km roughly the distance from Canada to Florida.
The very strong winds tore roofs, windows and cut a wide swath of destruction
A soldier inside the Tacloban airport control tower
What happenned? What hit our kababayan? Tsunami or an atom bomb? Let us pray for them and help them 
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