i'll hand it over to anderson. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> good evening i'm anderson cooper reporting live from manila. we'll have reporters from all over the disaster scene. this is day eight since super typhoon haiyan hit. its easy to think by day eight with the aid that's coming, with the increasing improvements in

>> reporter: newman's son told anderson cooper tonight that the day before his flight his father met with north korean officials who talked about his army service in the korean war. newman thought nothing of it until he was escorted off the plane. there has to be a terrible misunderstanding. i hope the north koreans will see this as a humanitarian matter and allow him to return to his family as soon as possible. the u.s. issued a warning against travel to north korean citing "the risk ever arbitrary arrest of u.s. citizens." >>> it's learned valuable lessons since the asiana crash, says sfo. it conduct add review of is emergency response. it gave itself high marks for communication among first responders. but the tremendousage procedures could have been better coordinated. the airport upgraded its website after it failed to keep up with

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>>> anderson cooper reports live >>> anderson cooper reports live from the philippines right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> this is cnn breaking news. >> good evening, everyone i'm anderson cooper reporting live from manila. we will have extensive coverage of the disaster here in the philippines. typhoon haiyan causing untold devastation. we do not have an accurate death toll. there were estimates that 10,000 people may have been killed in tacloban alone. that may be an overestimate but there are no accurate figures at all. right now the immediate needs are for people in a number of pieces not just tacloban but a number of low-lying smaller villages and town all throughout the southern islands in the philippines, places the government has not been able to get to. people are desperate for food and water and medical care as well. we don't know how many people have been wounded. the hospital in tacloban has been overwhelmed in the last several days. the relief effort is coming into a focus but bad weather moving in has put a question mark over the next couple hours. what

find your perfect match at kp.org and thrive. >>> anderson cooper reports live >>> anderson cooper reports live from the philippines right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> this is cnn breaking news. >> good evening, everyone i'm anderson cooper reporting live from manila. we will have extensive coverage of the disaster here in the philippines. typhoon haiyan causing untold devastation. we do not have an accurate death toll. there were estimates that 10,000 people may have been killed in tacloban alone. that

it's a privilege to see. >> anderson cooper, thank you so much. anderson doing some incredible reporting there. he'll have more at 8:00 eastern. >>> turning to iran, a country that the u.s. has little reason to trust for decades now, what with death to america still the phrase to beat among protesters there and of course, iranians are still miffed at the u.s. for the whole helping overthrow the government in the '50s so can it be that the u.s. and other world powers are quote, getting close to a deal with iran over its nuclear program? as a senior administration official tells cnn. we heard the same thing a week ago but then talks stalled. i want to bring in our chief national security correspondent, jim sciutto. it sounds like there is significant progress. >> they are expressing real confidence. i was able to speak to two administration officials involved in this. they say it's a six-month deal, an interim deal while they negotiate something longer term. the keys here, not only does it stop the iranians from expanding their program but also roll

anderson cooper starts right now. >>> good evening. i'm anderson cooper reporting tonight live from manila. thanks for joining us on this edition of "ac 360." this is day eight since supertyphoon haiyan hit this region and has devastated much of the philippines in the south. a lot of coastal communities. you have been witnessing what we have been seeing over the last several days. it's easy to think that by day eight with all the aid that's coming with the increasing improvements and the way it's being distributed it's easy to think that the worst is over. but for many people on the ground, the nightmare continues. there is still a lack of food, still a lack water and people are dying. people are still dying, people will die who don't need to die. they're going to die of things that if they had antibiotics they couldizely be cured of. we have an example of that this evening. you may have seen this picture. it's been seen around the world. it's really stunned a lot of people. a woman in what has remains of a hadn't in tacloban who has n

i'm anderson cooper from the philippines, five days after the typhoon haiyan set in. this is a place where there is little food, little water, and there are many, many people in need. many people are trying to get out of here, getting out of the airport. there are scenes of people lining up, they've been lining up all night long. they wait in the airport. they frankly have nowhere else to go, because out there on the other side of the camera is what remains of tacloban, and it is not a pretty sight. dead bodies laying out near the wreckage of people's people sleeping out in the street. it's been five days since super typhoon haiyan slammed into the philippines, but there's been no concerted effort to retrieve the body the of those who died. the cleanup in some badly hit areas has barely started. everywhere you go, there are pleas for help. >> everything's gone. there's nothing to eat. there's nothing to drink. >> we need more people to help. >> reporter: help is on the way. u.s. service members are on the ground and ships are on the way. but right now there isn't enou

i'm anderson cooper reporting live from manila. we're supposed to be in tacloban for this broadcast. but our plane had to turn around at the last minute due to some severe weather that moved into the area. so we're broadcasting from the airport here in manila. we're just now starting to get a lot of the details of how people actually survived this storm. there is some remarkable stories. the mayor of tacloban joins me now. and frankly, mr. mayor, from everything i have heard you are very lucky to be alive. i understand you at one point had to punch holes and climb onto the roof of your house. what happened? >> oh, actually, it was not the house. it was beside my house. there was a big ball room. and the ceiling was about 20 feet high. and the next thing we knew that we were just -- when the waves came in, it just brought us up. and our -- we had no choice but to punch a hole in the ceiling. and hide between the ceiling and the roof. and the waves were breaking in the roof. the place was a resort, and it is like a ball room. so it i

anderson cooper, tacloban, philippines. >> you can go to cnn.com/impact. there's a ton of information there of how you can help if you're so inclined. >> it's a terrific resource. >>> 35 minutes after the hour. we're going to move on to the continuing drama surrounding the rollout of obama care. the criticism is coming from all sides after the white house was forced to admit that millions of americans will have to change their insurance plans despite the president's reassurance that they would keep their plans if they liked. and now a democrat, you will recognize him, he's chiming in, too. >> so i personally believe, even if it takes changing the law, the president should honor the commitment the federal government made to those people. >> the president has instructed his team to look at a range of options. and we haven't announced one way or the other. >> as for the problems with the healthcare.gov website, a new report this morning from the "washington post" saying that only maybe 6 out of every 10 problems have been repaired. the site, apparently, still

it's one of three stories recounted in the anderson cooper special report "to heaven and back" airing tomorrow night on cnn. here's randi kaye. >> reporter: but you could still see your husband, and how was he reacting to the fact that you were in a coma and he thought he was losing you? >> he was very distraught. he was there by my bedside. he was holding my hand, and i could feel he was willing me to come back. >> reporter: and you had a choice to make. >> i had a choice as to whether to come back or not. at first, i absolutely did not want to come back because why would i want to come back into this sick and dying body? but then, it was as though in the next moment i understood why i had the cancer. all the years of beating myself up, feeling flawed had turned my own energy against me and manifested as cancer. >> fear, in a way, poisoned your body. >> yes, it did. and i understood that now that i knew this, my body would heal. >> reporter: you had this huge revelation. and sony and your father both affirmed what needed to be done. >> both of them said to me, go back and live your l

i'm anderson cooper reporting from manila in the philippines. we want to focus now on the plight of children here. there are so many children in harm's way and continue to be in harm's way in terms of lack of food and water, and so many families have been separated. so many people moved around to escape the storm and so many people are missing and getting information about a lost loved one is very, very difficult. so many people are frankly just disappearing. lack of information is a big problem. ana corin found a philippine american woman on vacation here in the philippines. she was pregnant. when the storm hit, she was able to get to safety. she brought a niece and nephew with her but other family members stayed in harm's way. they are now trying to get information what happened to those family members. here is her story. >> reporter: distraught and traumatized, his arm in a sling, benjamin degali delivers a desperate message to his daughter from the disaster zone. watching a local news channel in a hotel room 160 miles away, jasmine derma is

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i'm anderson cooper coming to you live from manila in the philippines with the latest on the disaster here and the relief efforts on going in tacloban and cebu. we have correspondents around the re the region to broadcast. the death toll has been revielsed upward. the official philippinen death poll is 2,300 people, more than that. but there is some confusion on the ground because according to the un on their website, they have the death toll at nearly 4,500. again, as we've been saying, there are no accurate numbers we can give you with confidence. there are so many bodies not collected. the effort to collect bodies have increased, firefighters doing the grim and grizzly but necessary work of collecting the bodies. there is a lot to tell you about. increasing humanitarian assistance has been arriving in tacloban and elsewhere but piling up at airports. the problem now seems to be distributing it, getting it in trucks to get the aid out, to get it out safely, to get it out efficiently and to get it out to those who need it most. the needs are great. there are millions of people who ar

i'm anderson cooper coming to you live from manila in the philippines with the latest on the disaster here and the relief efforts on going in tacloban and cebu. we have correspondents around the region to broadcast. the death toll has been revised upward. the official philippinen death poll is 2,300 people, more than that. but there is some confusion on the ground because according to the un on their website, they have the death toll at nearly 4,500. again, as we've been saying, there are no accurate numbers we can give you with confidence. there are so many bodies not collected. the effort to collect bodies have increased, firefighters doing the grim and grizzly but necessary work of collecting the bodies. there is a lot to tell you about. increasing humanitarian assistance has been arriving in tacloban and elsewhere but piling up at airports. the problem now seems to be distributing it, getting it in trucks to get the aid out, to get it out safely, to get it out efficiently and to get it out to those who need it most. the needs are great. there are millions of people who are in need

i'm anderson cooper reporting tonight from tacloban in the philippines. it is thursday morning here, 9:00 a.m. and a new day has begun. in the last several hours there have been some significant developments to tell you about. yesterday i talked to the marine brigadier general paul kennedy who promised he would be able to get this airport, the runway, up and running on a 24-hour basis. he's fulfilled that promise along with air force personnel who were here on the ground last night for the first time aircraft were coming in during the nighttime hours, able to land and offload supplies. we have actually seen an uptick in aid along the side of the runway from usaid, from the malaysian government, from other places. food aid, medical supplies, and tarps that people can use for shelter. the problem is getting it out from here at the airport to the surrounding communities that are in such desperate need. and it's not just a question of communities far away. i'm talking about communities that are half a mile from here. even a clinic here at the airport, people

anderson cooper reports live from the phillipines. >>> good evening, everyone. i'm anderson cooper live from tacloban airport in the philippines where five days after typhoon haiyan desperation has set in there is little food, little water, and many, many people in need. many people are trying to get out of here, out of the airport. there are scenes of people lining up all around me. they've been lining up here all night long. they just wait at the airport. they frankly have nowhere else to go. because out there on the other side of the camera is what remains of tacloban and it is not a pretty sight. dead bodies laying out near the wreckage of people's homes. people sleeping out in the streets with little food, little water, and few answers, frankly, about the relief effort. we're going to try to get answers over the course of the next hour. i just want to bring you up to date on all we have seen in the last 24 hours. >> it's been five days since supertyphoon haiyan slammed into the philippines. but still after all that time there's no official death toll, no co

anderson cooper was there. and i don't think he was prepared about what he was going to coming across. but when you come across people who have lost their entire families and are still sitting amongst their corpses, it's overwhelming. >> reporter: in tacloban, the misery is beyond meaning. >> this is your home? >> yes. >> the first -- the first, she says, our house was one of the first to come down. >> reporter: she sought shelter from the storm surge in this bus with her husband and six children. she survived. they were swept away. >> and has anyone come to help you? >> translator: i really want to see them, she says, even if it's just just their bodies. she has found the body of her husband and shows us the bodies of three of her children. she's covered the kids as best she can. now she searches for her three other children. she doesn't believe they survived the storm. >> where will you sleep tonight? >> here in the street. anywhere. i don't know where i go. >> reporter: in tacloban, there isn't anyplace to g

. >> reporter: newman's son told anderson cooper the day before his flight his father met with north korean officials who talked about his army experience in the korean war. newman apparently thought nothing of it until he was escorted off the plane. his travel companion from their channing house retirement community said in a statement, quote, there has to be a terrible misunderstanding. i hope that the north koreans will see this as a humanitarian matter and allow him to return to his family as soon as possible. the u.s. does not have diplomatic relations with north korea. so newman's family has been working with the state department officials and the swedish embassy in an effort to get him released. meanwhile, the u.s. has issued a warning against travel to north korea citing the, quote, risk of arbitrary arrest of u.s. citizens. live in the newsroom, cate caugiran, kpix 5. >> a korean-american kenneth bae was detained in north korea last year accused of illegal missionary work. he was sentenced in april to 15 years of hard labor. he is the longest serving detainee in north korea

i'm anderson cooper reporting tonight from tacloban in the philippines. it is thursday morning here, 9:00 a.m. and a new day has begun. in the last several hours there have been some significant developments to tell you about. yesterday i talked to the marine brigadier general paul kennedy who promised he would be able to get this airport, the runway, up and running on a 24-hour basis. he's fulfilled that promise along with air force personnel who were here on the ground last night for the first time aircraft were coming in during the nighttime hours, able to land and offload supplies. we have actually seen an uptick in aid along the side of the runway from usaid, from the malaysian government, from other places. food aid medical supplies, and tarps that people can use for shelter. the problem is getting it out from here at the airport to the surrounding communities that are in such desperate need. and it's not just a question of communities far away. i'm talking about communities that are half a mile from here. even a clinic here at the airport, people c

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. >> alec baldwin, he came out against anderson cooper and he was brilliant. he was like, anderson cooper you were hiding for 10 years and now that you are out you are the sheriff? i was in a house by myself. >> that is true. brian, did you see i called on you, didn't he just break a man's heart by joking about it? he is using somebody. >> what i'm amazed at, this is the crisis management. this is the crisis management of people who can't afford the crisis management. they show up in san francisco and talk to gay people, stereo type and then pretend to be gay which is condescending. and this is two days after he continues. he did two gay slurs in three weeks. how many do you have in your emotional bank before people say pack up your red eye sports wear and you have to go somewhere else? >> it is amazing. >> so what is so great about his life that is at the edge? he has a beautiful young wife and a beautiful young daughter. his older daughter is fine. he is rich and happy and good looking. >> why don't you sleep with him? >> what is so stressful about his life?

. >> "to heaven and back," an anderson cooper special report airs tomorrow night at 7:00 and 10:00 p.m. eastern time right here on cnn. >>> we have much more ahead in the "newsroom," and that starts right now. hello there. i'm miguel marquez. here are the top stories we're following in the "cnn newsroom." just a day after thanksgiving thanks, we saw brawling. black friday shoppers. we'll bring you the worst of the violent shoppers shoving and screaming trying to snag a deal. >>> eight people dead so far after a police helicopter crashes through the roof of a pub. now the search for survivors. coming up, what witnesses saw moments before impact. >>> a chilling video of an elderly u.s. tourist dragged off a plane and held hostage in north korea. details on his suspicious confession, next. >>> at least eight people have died after a police helicopter crashed into a pub in scotland. the pub was packed with a concert when part of the roof came down. three victims were on the helicopter and the other five inside the pub. more than 30 people were rushed to hospitals, and police say about 14 a

sunday, anderson cooper brings us the stories of three such people, including this cancer survivor who spoke with randi kaye. >> you could still see your husband. how was he reacting to the fact you were in this coma and he thought he was losing you? >> he was very distraught. he was there by my bedside. he was holding my hand, and i could feel he was willing me to come back. >> and you had a choice to make. >> i had a choice as to whether to come back or not. at first, i absolutely did not want to come back because why would i want to come back into this sick and dying body? but then it was as though in the next moment i understood why i had the cancer. all the years of beating myself up, feeling flawed, had turned my own energy against me and manifested as cancer. >> fear in a way poisoned your body. >> yes, it did. and i understood that now that i knew this, my body would heal. >> you had this huge revelation. and sony and your father both affirmed what needed to be done. >> both of them said to me, go back and live your life fearlessly. and it was around that time that i started to

. >>> we should tell you that anderson cooper sat down with and spoke with dr. phil about this exclusive interview with michelle knight. wa thatight on ac 360 tonight. >> police just missed him be near minutes, as investigators trying to piece together friday's shooting at the l.a. international airport. we are now today learning new details about the suspect and a possible motive. prompted by a warning by paul ciancia's family in new jersey, police went to the alleged l.a.g. gunman's apartment the morning of the shooting. his family frantically called police after text message after text message from ciancia warned something would happen. he left for l.a.x. 45 minutes earlier. meanwhile, one woman who knows this alleged gunman and his three room mates says he was plotting his crime days before the rampage. >> he asked one of the room mates if he could have a ride to the airport. >> why did he need a ride? >> he said he was going going back home, his dad was sick and he had to deal with family issues. >> did anyone see a ticket? >> no, he also didn't mention the

check out anderson cooper's special "to heaven and back." it airs tomorrow night at 7:00 p.m. >>> thank you for starting your morning with us. >> we have more ahead on "new day" which continues right now. >> and good morning. i'm alison kosik. >> i'm george howell. it is 9:00 on the east. 6:00 on the west. this is "new day saturday." it is early afternoon in scotland where a painstaking search and rescue effort is under way. >> rescuers are trying to get to people trapped in a pub after a helicopter smashed through the roof killing one person at least and injuring others. cnn's richard quest has more. >> reporter: a black day as the commander described the crash when the helicopter went through the roof of the pub behind me. it has been confirmed that one person was killed in the collapse, but it is widely also expected that the death toll will rise in the hours ahead. the rescue and recovery operation is delicate because the force of the crash made the building unstable. the rescuers have to be careful as they work through the wreckage to m

i'm anderson cooper from the philippines, five days after the typhoon haiyan set in. this is the place where there is little food. little water and many, many people in need. many people are trying to get out of here, get out of the airport. it seems people have been lining up all night long. they wait at the airport, they, frankly, have nowhere else to go. outside there is what

and anderson cooper is live in the philippines. anderson, thank you very much, indeed, obviously, you're in manila, about 500 miles north of tacloban. what do you hear about the scale of devastation? >> yeah, we actually were flying into tacloban about two hours ago, that is just the latest concern, another tropical storm coming in, putting more water on the ground, with so many people looking for shelter, so many looking for food and water trying to deal with injuries, as well. the hospital in tacloban has been overwhelmed, as well. they stopped admitting new patients. they were just giving first aid to a lot of patients. relief efforts are under way. but at this point the needs of the people are so great. tacloban is a city of some 200,000 people. we don't yet, piers, have an accurate count of how many people lost their lives, how many are wounded and in need of immediate assistance, accurate number, we just simply don't have them. and that gives you a sense, we're now into the fourth day since the storm hit and it gives you a se

i'm anderson cooper reporting tonight from tacloban in the philippines. it is thursday morning here, 9:00 a.m. and a new day has begun. in the last several hours there have been some significant developments to tell you about. yesterday i talked to the marine brigadier general paul kennedy who promised he would be able to get this airport, the runway, up and running on a 24-hour basis.

i'm anderson cooper from the philippines, five days after the typhoon haiyan set in. this is a place where there is little food, little water, and there are many, many people in need. many people are trying to get out of here, getting out of the airport. there are scenes of people lining up, they've been lining up all night long. they wait in the airport. they frankly have nowhere else to go, because out there on the other side of the camera is what remains of tacloban, and it is not a

anderson cooper has been covering the catastrophe live from the philippines. he and other international reporters have been criticized by philippine broadcasters for inaccuracy, and the philippine president asked them to focus on stories that show how strong the filipino people are. here is anderson's powerful response. >> if you have been watching our coverage over the past week, you know we have been on the ground trying to be as accurate as possible. accuracy is what we care most about here at cnn, giving information that might actually help people on the ground and help the relief effort in some way become more efficient. in our reporting it seems though in the philippines it has become about a political issue at times. a radio broadcaster, carina sanchez has apparently taken issue with some of my reporting, not just a radio broadcaster, she's wife of the interior minister in charge of relief on the ground. she seems to be under the impression that i said i saw no presence of the philippine government in tack low ban. i had been on the ground there for day

anderson cooper starts right now. >>> good evening. i'm anderson cooper reporting tonight live from manila. thanks for joining us on this edition of "ac 360." this is day eight since supertyphoon haiyan hit this region and has devastated much of the philippines in the south. a lot of coastal communities. you have been witnessing what we have been seeing over the last several days. it's easy to think that by day eight with all the aid that's coming with the increasing improvements and the way it's being distributed it's easy to think that the worst is over. but for many people on the ground, the nightmare continues. there is still a lack of food, still a lack water and people are dying. people are still dying, people will die who don't need to die. they're going to die of things that if they had antibiotics they couldizely be cured of. we have an example of that this evening. you may have seen this picture. it's been seen around the world. it's really stunned a lot of people. a woman in what has remains of a hospital in tacloban who has

anderson cooper starts right now. >>> good evening. i'm anderson cooper reporting tonight live from manila. thanks for joining us on this edition of "ac 360." this is day eight since supertyphoon haiyan hit this region and has devastated much of the philippines in the south. a lot of coastal communities. you have been witnessing what we have been seeing over the last several days. it's easy to think that by day eight with all the aid that's coming with the increasing improvements and the way it's being distributed it's easy to think that the worst is over. but for many people on the ground, the nightmare continues. there is still a lack of food,

i i'm anderson cooper reporting live from manila. throughout this hour, we're going to have extensive coverage of the disaster here in the philippines. typhoon haiyan causing untold devastation. at this point, we do not have an accurate death toll. there have been some estimates, as many as 10,000 people may have been killed in tacloban alone. some government officials say that may be an over-estimate. the bottom line is there are no accurate figures. and anything else is just speculation. right now, the immediate needs are for people in a number of places. not just tacloban and cebu, but a number of low-lying areas and town, all places in the philippines, places that the government has not been able to get to. people in desperate need of water and food. the exact numbers, we don't know how many people have been wounded. the hospital in tacloban has been overwhelmed for days. the relief effort has started to come in to focus, but bad weather has put a big question mark over the area. over the next couple of hours, the type of relief

i'm anderson cooper reporting tonight from tacloban in the philippines. it is thursday morning here, 9:00 a.m. and a new day

., anderson cooper will be there live. if you would like to help the victims, go to cnn.com/backimpa your world. >>> secretary of state john kerry promising to keep current economic sanctions against the iranians in place while pursuing a deal to dismantle their nuclear weapons program. netanyahu is blasting the talks and calling them dangerous and sending an official to meet with the administration in washington this week. >>> officials have indicated they expect very low numbers after a rocky roll outof the healthcare.gov last month. so far, the administration has resisted to extend the deadline. >>> chris christie says president obama should apologize because he didn't tell people the truth about keeping their own insurance coverage under obama care but he is keeping coy and here is what he said expected to. >> i'm the governor of new jersey and four more years is what i intend to do. >> all four years? >> who knows. i will continue to do my job and finish the job, when everybody is trying to figure out what life is goi

i'm anderson cooper. we're live here in tacloban, probably the hardest hit area we know about there is still a lot of areas we don't know about in the southern philippines. this is the airport where people are just flocking to. people just hundreds of people, thousands of people come here, have have been coming here, streaming here for days now and they spend all day here often all night here. i was here at 2:00 a.m. walking through, there were no lights and people are just sitting. they don't -- they have no place to sleep, but they have nowhere to go. they bring whatever possessions they can. a lot of them are hoping to get on a c-130, hoping the philippine military will take them to manila if they are injured and have family members they can be cared for. there is no guarantees for a lot of people on the lines to get an the c-130s is long. this is the first time philippine military personnel are now starting to clean up the area around the airport. this is the first time we're actually seeing this. tha

we will talk to anderson cooper who is live on the ground in manila and been there all week. the desperate situation continues to unfold there. >> you hope the people there get the help they need. see you in a bit. >>> it is time for our morning rhyme. best tweets of the day. today it's from laura holloway who is talking about rob ford, the mayor of toronto. she writes, crack mayor, tv show, kind of obscene. maybe he co-hosts with charlie sheen. >> well done, well done. >> that was a fantastic rhyme for the end of the week. kudos for you and thank you for participating. you can come up with your own rhymes. tweet us at early start or morning rhyme those are the hash tags. that's all i'm going to say. >>> coming up, how much are you planning to spend this holiday season? a little less? you're not alone. christine romans will have the numbers in "money time." that's next. today's challenging environment. unless you have the right perspective. bny mellon wealth management has the vision and experience to look beyond the obvious. we'll uncover opportunities, find hidden risk, and

i'm anderson cooper reporting tonight from tacloban in the philippines. it is thursday morning here, 9:00 a.m. and a new day has begun. in the last several hours there have been some significant developments to tell you about. yesterday i talked to the marine brigadier general paul kennedy who promised he would be able to get this airport, the runway, up and running on a 24-hour basis. he's fulfilled that promise along with air force personnel who were here on the ground last night for the first time aircraft were coming in during the nighttime hours, able to land and offload supplies. we have actually seen an uptick in aid along the side of the

. >> reporter: newman's son told anderson cooper tonight that the day before his flight his father met with north korean officials who talked about his army service in the korean war. newman thought nothing of it until he was escorted off the plane. there has to be a terrible misunderstanding. i hope the north koreans will see this as a humanitarian matter and allow him to return to his family as soon as possible. the u.s. issued a warning against travel to north korean citing "the risk ever arbitrary arrest of u.s. citizens." >>> it's learned valuable lessons since the asiana crash, says sfo. it conduct add review of is emergency response. it gave itself high marks for communication among first responders. but the tremendousage procedures could have been better coordinated. the airport upgraded its website after it failed to keep up with the surge in traffic following the july crash. >>> tomorrow b.a.r.t.'s board will vote on its contract offer to the unions and it appears the directors are ready to reject that deal. they say there's no way to pay for that six weeks of paid family lea

anderson cooper starts right now. >>> good evening. i'm anderson cooper reporting tonight live from manila. thanks for joining us on this edition of "ac 360." this is day eight since supertyphoon haiyan hit this region and has devastated much of the philippines in the south. a lot of coastal communities. you have been witnessing what we have been seeing over the last several days. it's easy to think that by day eight with all the aid that's coming with the increasing improvements and the way it's being distributed it's easy to think that the worst is over. but for many people on the ground, the nightmare continues. there is still a lack of

i'm wolf blitzer in for anderson cooper. we begin with a wintry blast of weather right before thanksgiving. that if you're traveling over the next couple of days threatens to make it difficult. hundreds are stranded. the ripple effect is only just beginning. at street level the situation is not much better. sleet and freezing rain in the southern plains and rockies. in oklahoma city, an suv slides on the icy road and slips off the roadway. all caught on video. meanwhile, up to eight inches forecast for new mexico. heavy rain from texas to georgia, in a moment we'll get the latest on the flight situation and you will find out what to expect over the next few days. but it is not just inconvenience we're talking about. already there have been 12 deaths blamed on this storm. jason carroll reports. >> reporter: the killer storm started in california where it claimed its first life. it continued its delmar across the country. flooding in arizona. heavy snow in colorado. and in new mexico, wind gusts up to 50 miles an hour, produci

. >> good evening, everyone, i'm anderson cooper reporting live from manila. throughout this hour, we're going to have extensive coverage of the disaster here in the philippines. typhoon haiyan causing untold devastation. at this point we do not have an accurate death toll. there have been some estimates, as many as 10,000 people may have been killed in tacloban alone. some government officials say that may be an over-estimate. the bottom line is there are no accurate figures. and anything else is just speculation. right now, the immediate needs are for people in a number of places. not just tacloban and cebu, but a number of low-lying areas and town, all places in the philippines, places that the government has not been able to get to. people in desperate need of water and food. the exact numbers, we don't know how many people have been injured. the hospital in tacloban has been overwhelmed for days. the relief effort has started to come in to focus, but bad weather has put a big question mark over the area. over the next couple of hours, the type of relief a

and we honor them with every broadcast that we do. >> anderson cooper has been working hard to cover this story. look what he's having to look at daily and those people are having to endure. if if you want to help the millions of victims you can go to cnn.com/impact your world. there are terrific opportunities to help out and it's simple to do. we highly recommend it. >>> one minute, you may be sitting around your house relaxing. the next minute your house is swallowed up by something like that. a giant sinkhole. this is happening right now, live in florida. it's remarkable how large it's becoming by the moment. the statics are this, 70 feet wide, 50 feet deep now and growing. this is all taking place in florida. a city of 35,000 people just north of clear water, florida. we have more on this now from john zarrella. >> reporter: watch this. this is a section of a home collapsing after an enormous sinkhole opened up beneath it. it's been falling a piece at a time. slowly. >> i saw a screen room going down into the sinkhole. at that point i just turned around and said everybody out, gr

i'm anderson cooper reporting from tacloban in the philippines. it's thursday morning, 9:00 a.m. and a new day has begun. in the last several hours there has been significant developments to tell you about. yesterday i talked to the general paul kennedy who promised he would bebout to get this airport, the runway up and running on a 24-hour basis. he fulfill that promise with air force personnel on the ground last night for the first time, aircraft were coming in during the nighttime hours, able to land and off load supplies. we have actually seen an uptick in aid along the side of the runway from usa id, from the malaysia government, food aid, medical supplies and tarps that people can use for shelters. the problem is getting it out from here at the airport to the surrounding communities that are in such desperate need and not just the question of communities far away. i'm talking about communities that are half a mile from here, even a clinic here at the airplane. people come up to you all the time. look at all the people here at the airport. many times they come here every day

anderson cooper 360 with john anderson cooper 360 with john berman starts now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> thanks so much. i'm john berman filling in tonight. the storm that's causing a holiday travel mess in so much of the country. it's been updated to nor'easter status but the national weather service and looks like it will get worse before better. they will get brutal winds tomorrow, which i'm sure you're told is the business els travel days of the year. this could cause a major domino effect if airports in new york, philadelphia and boston see delays. right now there are 180 flight cancellations nation wowide for today and tomorrow which isn't bad unless you're supposed to be on one of those flights. on the ground the scene is chaotic with rain, snow, ice making for treacherous driving in much of the country. large swaths of the country woke to blankets of snow this morning. crews scrambling to keep up with the weather for the morning commute. in wisconsin, despite the best efforts of authorities, dozens of accidents littered highways. >> there is a point where there

anderson cooper, cnn, tacloban, the philippines. >> people see something like this and want to try to help. please go to our website cnn.com/impact, a list of all kinds of way to participate in the relief effort there and they desperately need help. >>> president obama picked to head of the federal reserve goes to capitol hill for a confirmation here. janet yelleden is to say the best way to survive the economy and she has no plans to change the course set by outgoing chairman ben bernanke but expect tough talk. we are going to have much more coming up in our next half hour when christine romans joins us for "money time." this is one of her favorite subjects. >> so much going on capitol hill. >>> house republicans plan today to introduce articles of impeachment for attorney general eric holder. texas representative pete olson says holder has disregarded the rule of law not and not been forthcoming to the congress. it is not clear if they have support from the house leadership and the justice department is not commenting. >>> one thing not happening on capitol hill is comprehensive imm

>> tomorrow night, anderson cooper brings us the fascinating stories of three people who came close to clinical death and say they actually went somewhere else, or at least felt something profound, or other-worldly. mary neil is one of those people. here she is with cnn's randi kaye. zillion i could see the riverbank. i could see them pull my body to the shore. i could see them start cpr. i had no pulse. and i wasn't breathing. one fellow was yelling at me to come back. >> reporter: you were unconscious, so how did you know this was all happening? >> i felt my body break free, and i felt my spirit break free, and i was greeted by these people, or these spirits. i could be with them and be going down this incredible pathway, and simultaneously look back at the river. when i saw my body, i will say that was the first time that i actually thought, well, i guess i am dead. i guess i really did die. >> reporter: in the book, you write about dancing with them. >> yeah. >> reporter: were you celebrating something or -- >> yes. >> reporter: what? what were you celebrating? >> it was a great ho

anderson cooper 360 with john anderson cooper 360 with john berman starts now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> thanks so much. i'm john berman filling in tonight. the storm that's causing a holiday travel mess in so much of the country. it's been updated to nor'easter status but the national weather service and looks like it will get worse before better. they will get brutal winds tomorrow, which i'm sure you're told is the business els travel days of the year. this could cause a major domino effect if airports in new york, philadelphia and boston s