gloria riveria, abc news, tacloban. >> like a waste land, like a bomb went off. incredible the images coming out of there. you can imagine this is the beginning of years' long recovery. >> the u.s. allocated $20 million in assistance, but every little bit counts. if you want to help, go to our website. there's plenty of places you can send money to. if you want to send it to the philippines red cross, they have resources there or unicef to help the children and their families you can send money there. do any little bit you can. the images are so heart breaking. you almost want to reach through the screen to see how you can help. >> mazing how little they have. >> i remember being at this desk live on tv a couple of years ago when we saw the first images of the tsunami in japan and realized what an awful tragedy it was and we haven't seen images like those since. it is a death toll unthinkable. >> the same images because we can't get to the most remote areas. that is coming and will be just as sad. >> keep it here as we continue to cover this disaster. for details

abc's gloria riveria is joining us with the latest. good morning, gloria. >> reporter: good morning, diana and john. the international effort is really something to see. the relief effort taking a turn in terms of the u.s. aid alone. what we are seeing today is a move forward. there's a staging area in a coastal town outside of tacloban. helicopters are able to get in there, load up and ferry supplies to the more remote regions. the u.s. are transporting the sick and injured from their ravaged hometowns to a place where they can get medical aid. in terms of the death toll, that remains difficult to put a pinpoint on official estimates in the low 2,000, 2200, most aid organizations say that number is going to be much higher. a grim reality is that unidentified victims may very well gin to mass graves because at this point the cleanup has to move forward. at the dome in tacloban, hundreds are fleeing there with nowhere else to go. the filth and grime is extreme. for people that need so much life remains very difficult. >> let's talk abou

gloria riveria, abc news, tacloban. >> like a wasteland, like a bomb went off. incredible the images coming out of there. you can imagine this is the beginning of years' long recovery. >> the u.s. allocated $20 million in assistance, but every little bit counts. if you want to help, go to our website. there's plenty of places you can send money to. if you want to send it to the philippines' red cross, they have resources there or unicef to help the children and their families, you can send money there. do any little bit you can. the images are so heart breaking. you almost want to reach through the screen to see how you can help. >> amazing how little they have. >> i remember being at this desk live on tv a couple of years ago when we saw the first images of the tsunami in japan and realized what an awful tragedy it was and we haven't seen images like those since. it is a complete loss, and death toll unknown, unthinkable. >> the same images because we can't get to the most remote areas. that is coming and will be just as sad. >> keep it here as we continue to c

gloria riveria, abc news, beijing. >>> there's a guy named johnny love. the lives in south florida and yesterday he tried his best to hold up a gas station. didn't go quite as planned. >> look at this. johnny is in the upper right corner. the clerk behind the counter handed over the money and gave johnny a couple of plastic bags so if he wanted he could steal more stuff. he grabbed gum and beer as well. >> when he walks out one of the bags breaks, beer bottles fall all over the place and you have to pick them up and that's when the cops arrive. man, oh man. nothing going right for johnny love. he is now under arrest. >> poor guy. all he wanted was the beer and gum -- >> he left the cash in the register. he wanted the beer and gum. >> i like how the clerk is like, oh, you want to steal more stuff, take your time while i call the cops. >>> coming up, eye-opening theories about thanksgiving weight gain. >>> and the amazing scene in the heavens. the final flight for a comet billions of years old. is it lost in space? you are watching "world news now." >> anno

abc's gloria riveria has more details live from manila. gloria, what's the latest. >> reporter: we are six days in to this crisis. what we are seeing is the shock of what happened may have wore off, but reality for survivors on the ground it is harder and not easier to get through each day. in a humanitarian crisis like this one, there are stages and we are enter ing a grim, worrisome stage. we met a mother, maria rose, who has five children. she told us her neighbors' young child died from convulsions from a high fever. that is usually a treatable disease, a treatable condition. in this case, marie rose whose children are now sick doesn't know where to take them for medical attention and it is that lack of a centralized relief operations headquarters that is posing a real threat. people don't know where to go for the basic food, water, shelter and of course medical attention. the situation is very much day by day. roads are being cleared in tacloban. we were able to drive to the outer city limits and that's a good thing. that means vehicl

gloria riveria reports on this high-stakes confrontation. >> reporter: the message delivered by america's new ambassador to japan, caroline den kennedy, a warning to china after it insisted it has the right to police the sky over a series of islands. what might seem small, experts say is a big bold movie by china. an act of defiance from the superpower. but the u.s. was quick to respond flying two b-52 bombers ai unannounced in the zone and now japan and south korea have tested china too with their own flights. china responded by sending fighter jets in to the zone. raising the stakes, vice president joed by biden will be in china in the coming days an he will ask china to explain what is behind the aggression. glor wra riveria, abc news, beijing. >>> there's a guy named johnny love. the lives in south florida and yesterday he tried his best to hold up a gas station. don't as he planned. >> look at this. johnny is in the upper right corner them clerk behind the counter handed over the money and gave johnny a couple of plastic bags so if he wanted he could steal more stuff. he grabbed gum

abc's gloria riveria has more details live from manila. gloria, what's the latest? >> reporter: we are six days in to this crisis. what we are seeing is the shock of what happened may have wore off, but reality for survivors on the ground is that it's getting harder, not easier, to get through each day. in a humanitarian crisis like this one, there are stages and we are enter ing a grim, worrisome stage. we met a mother, maria rose, who has five children. she told us her neighbors' young child died from convulsions from a fever. that is usually a treatable disease, a treatable condition. in this case, marie rose whose children are now sick doesn't know where to take them for medical attention and it is that lack of a centralized relief operations headquarters that is posing a real threat. people don't know where to go for the basic food, water, shelter and of course medical attention. the situation is very much day by day. roads are being cleared in tacloban. we were able to drive to the outer city limits and that's a good thing. that means vehicles can get where th

abc's gloria riveria is joining us with the latest. good morning, gloria. >> reporter: good morning, diana and john. the international effort is really something to see. the relief effort taking a turn in terms of the u.s. aid alone. what we are seeing today is a move forward. there's a staging area in a coastal town outside of tacloban. helicopters are able to get in there, load up and ferry supplies to the more remote regions. also the u.s. is helping to transport the sick and injured from their ravaged hometowns to a place where they can get medical aid. in terms of the death toll, that remains difficult to put a pinpoint on. the official estimates are in about the low 2,000s, 2,200. most aid organizations say that number is going to be much higher. a grim reality is that unidentified victims may very well go in to mass graves because at this point the cleanup has to move forward. at the dome in tacloban, it's become sort of a shelter. hundreds are fleeing there with nowhere else to go. the filth and grime is extreme. for people tha